1ST ANNUAL SIMULDRAFT

How did the crew at Prep Baseball Report do ranking and selecting prospects during the 2018 draft?

We assigned ourselves the average bonus pool (15th at $8.46M) and selected immediately following the Marlins, who had the 14th ($8.66M) overall bonus pool.

Without much knowledge of prospect signability, medical issues, personality/pysch testing and several other sources of information that MLB clubs rely on to make their selections, we were at a distinct disadvantage when it came to off-the-field information. However, with our extensive prospect coverage from boots-on-the-ground scouting, we selected a team of prospects for ourselves. Here’s what we came up with in 2018.

Each pick was made in real time as the draft was taking place.

Pick	Player	School	Bonus
1/13b	Matt Liberatore	Mountain Ridge HS, AZ	$3,497,500
2/53b	Alek Thomas	Mount Carmel HS, IL	$1,200,000
2/69b	Jeremy Eierman	Missouri State	$1,232,000
3/89b	Tristan Beck	Stanford	$900,000
4/117b	Michael Byrne	Florida	$257,500
5/147b	Devlin Granberg	Dallas Baptist	$40,000
6/177b	Isaiah Carranza	Azusa Pacific	$175,000
7/207b	Riley Thompson	Louisville	$200,000
8/237b	Tarik Skubal	Seattle	$350,000
9/267b	Sam Bordner	Louisville	$125,000
10/297b	Deacon Liput	Florida	$134,300
	Pool $ spent:		$8,121,300
11/327b	Kyle Datres	North Carolina	$125,000
12/357b	Davis Martin	Texas Tech	$130,000
13/387b	Jonah Davis	California	$125,000
14/417b	Josh Green	Southeast Louisiana	$5,000
15/447b	Eddy Demurias	South Carolina	$125,000
16/477b	Brett Daniels	North Carolina	$1,000
17/507b	Nick Lackney	Minnesota	DNS
18/537b	Luke Miller	Indiana	$100,000
19/567b	Cody Scroggins	Arkansas	DNS
20/597b	Connor Coward	Virginia Tech	$1,000

Update: DNS indicates the prospect Did Not Sign and returned to college.

There is obvious risk in the number of pitchers we selected who have past medical issues like Beck, Carranza, Thompson, Skubal and Martin. However, our picks also include potential all-stars in Liberatore and Thomas, low risk performers like Byrne, Granberg and Demurias, as well as tooled position players in Eierman, Liput, Davis and Miller. Although we may have occasionally disagreed with the MLB scouting industry on the value of certain prospects, we kept it simple and selected the next most talented player on our draft board.

Matt Liberatore

 

Alek Thomas

 

 

Jeremy Eierman

 

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