[USML Announce] MLB Amateur Draft

[Andy Klein]

And Beckham is good, too!  He made a nice crossing pass for England against
the U.S. in last week's football friendly.

-Andy

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:57 PM, <springkerb at aol.com> wrote:

> Looks like Block and I were typing at the same time.  I missed Beckham.
>
>
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> From: Blocker, Mark B. <mblocker at Sidley.com>
> To: announce at usml.net
> Sent: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 2:47 pm
> Subject: [USML Announce] MLB Amateur Draft
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>  Colleagues:
>   For teams like mine that our annually out of the running for the USML
> title by June 1, the baseball amateur draft brings a much-needed level of
> excitement into my hum-drum USML existence.  Since the first dozen or so
> picks are now in the books, I thought I would look at the winners and losers
> among USML league members:
> 1.  Big Winners:  Mighty Red Hots
>   Noted Bean Watcher Rich Robbins scores biggest, correctly predicting two
> names from the first three picks in the draft, and both of them (Beckham,
> Hosmer) went to AL teams.  Kudos to Rich.  Message to Beckham/Hosmer: don't
> expect to be going anywhere anytime soon.
> 2.  Smaller Winners:  Nukes, Bombers
>   I think Kerber actually chose Smoak two years ago and reserved him this
> year; is that right?  Anyway, Kerber's patience pays off (and he "Smoaks"
> the rest of us), as J. Smoak goes to the 1B-light Rangers.
>   The Bombers were of course roundly criticized for taking Brian Matusz,
> but the powerful lefty goes to the pitching-starved Orioles with the 4th
> pick, making this two years in a row that the Bombers taking home the top
> pitching prize in the draft (amateur).
> 3.  Losers:  Berliners
>   Bummer for Jeff:  his picks were excellent, but unfortunately, the
> roulette wheel stopped on the Pirates (P. Alvarez) and the Reds (Y. Alonso),
> both in the NL last time I checked.  Jeff, the silver lining is that you
> just had two spots open on your roster!
>   -- Mark B.
>
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