Starting at 5 pm C.D.T tomorrow, The Crawfish Boxes will be hosting a live MLB draft gamethread. I will do my best to stick around at least through the Astros first couple picks, and perhaps longer. AstroAndy has done a stellar job preparing our blog community for this uber-important couple days in our team's season. We all owe him a debt of gratitude for doing so. DQ or myself will compile all of his draft preview articles to one central post at some point in the next day.
All of us love to keep up with the day in and day out exploits of the Astros, but I don't think it's unfair to say that this may end up being the most important week in the organization's year. For those of you who have access to MLB Network, the first round (up to the 33rd selection) will be live. After that MLB.com will air a live video stream for the remainder of the first day. In total, Day One will consist of the first round, Compensation Round A, Round Two, Round Three, and Compensation Round B (where only the Astros will select). Rounds 4-30 will occur on June 10, while 31-50 are on Thursday the 11th.
Here is MLB.com's preview for the Astros.
For the lead up to the draft, and for continued coverage, SBN's blog, Minor League Ball, is a must read.
Saber-Scouting is chock full of information and insight that is especially interesting during draft week.
**DQ insert** I want make sure and properly laud AstrosAndy for his amazing job at amassing and digesting all the draft info he did. It's a tremendous asset to our community and one that will surely make us more informed come the 21st pick tomorrow. Thanks AstrosAndy!!
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I'll be there
Draft day is like baseball Christmas for me.
I might also have one more draft preview in me, with various scraps and tidbits that I’ve collected but haven’t used yet.
If anyone has draft questions, feel free to ask them! I learned as much as I could about the draft so that I could share my knowledge.
AstroAndy - June 8, 2009
Jason Castro, J. R. Towles, Max Sapp, Astros catchers in general
This is more a question of current status of past drafts, particularly at catcher.
The Astros (it seems to me ) have drafted catchers heavily in the early (i.e. first) round in the past few years. MLB.com’s preview (and almost everything else i’ve read) has handed the future Astros catching job to Jason Castro.
I presume most figure Max Sapp’s health problems eliminate him from consideration (but he is stil with the organization) .
Has J.R. Towles been prematurely written off?
I mention these three catchers since they were all highty touted Astros draft choices, but in addition to these three the Astros have other potenitially solid catchers in the Minors don’t they?
Does anyone have an idea of the future of Astros catching; and if the Astros will use the other catchers in the organization as trade bait?
Joe in Birmingham - June 8, 2009
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