Royals Slated to Draft 6th in Next Year's MLB Draft

by Freneau on Sep 22, 2011 2:18 PM EDT in Kansas City Royals News

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With six games to play, the Royals sit at 68-88. A September surge has moved the Royals out of the #3 range for next year's MLB Draft, and into the 5-10 neighborhood. Currently, there are slated to draft sixth.

Here are the current draft standings:

Astros (53-102)
Twins (59-95)
Orioles (65-90)
Mariners (66-89)
Pirates (69-87)
Royals (68-88)
Cubs (69-87)
Padres (68-88)
A's (69-86)
Rockies (70-85)

You can see how the Pirates, Royals, Cubs and Padres are all extremely close. In case of a tie, the team that was worse the year before gets the spot.

As stated before, there's no right or wrong answer here. If you want to root for the Royals to win their final six games, go for it. If you want them to lose the final six, fine. If you want to hedge, that works.

While it is a safe position to be agnostic about the MLB draft, there is a difference between drafting, say, #3 versus #8. It might not work out that way in 2012, but statistically, the higher the draft pick, the better a chance the player has of working out.

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SUCK FOR LUCK

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 22, 2011 2:54 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs

Luck is awesome

So is Cam Newton

by GobbleforCyoung on Sep 22, 2011 3:04 PM EDT reply actions

"but statistically, the higher the draft pick, the better a chance the player has of working out."

Unless your name is Ryan Leaf, Todd Blackledge, Jarmarcus Russell, Akili Smith, David Carr…)

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by LSSportsFan on Sep 22, 2011 3:16 PM EDT reply actions

Didn't Malcolm Gladwell write an article

Saying that draft position doesn’t matter that much and its a crapshoot? I don’t think it was statistically based, just saying “hey look at this guy that was drafted high and busted and compare him to Tom Brady who was drafted in the 7th round.”

I am guessing someone has done such a study though.

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 22, 2011 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

The study has been done for baseball, don't know about football

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by Scott McKinney on Sep 22, 2011 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions

If Malcolm Gladwell says draft position doesn't matter

that means it most definitely does matter

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 22, 2011 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

I enjoy reading Gladwell, but he has a well earned reputation for oversimplifying things.

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by KeepItCopacetic on Sep 22, 2011 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions

true dat....emperor has less clothes than most

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Sep 23, 2011 1:18 AM EDT up reply actions

Tipping point was entertaining and interesting--like good trivia

Beyond that he’s trying to give the already quite “pop” sociology the pop treatment. Blink was a major snoozer: those with extensive experience in a field have good intuition for matters in that field. Got it.

by billexgordler on Sep 23, 2011 5:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

kids with wealthy and nurturing parents excel in school....

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Sep 23, 2011 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions

You even typed the word "statistically", then proceeded to ignore its implication in the sentence

or maybe copy/paste was the problem.

Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448

by SagehenMacGyver47 on Sep 22, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions

We got Grienke #6 overall

I’m not worried.

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by sfeldkamp on Sep 22, 2011 3:31 PM EDT reply actions

As long as we're not picking #4 overall, I'm fine with it

That’s where the Royals drafted Jeff Austin.

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by Scott McKinney on Sep 22, 2011 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions

And Mike Stodolka!

Clearly we need to drop to nine – Kevin Appier!

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 22, 2011 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Colt Griffin had more upside than Appier ever dreamed of having

by BeauJackson on Sep 22, 2011 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Great face, great name, turned radar guns into christmas trees

turned batters into wine, and water into pee

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Sep 22, 2011 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions

lol

I really don't even know what to say about the Royals anymore.

by RoyalsFanInMarinerTown on Sep 23, 2011 7:30 PM EDT via iPhone app up reply actions

Sure Thing Colon will change your outlook on #4

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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 22, 2011 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Typo in rankings?

Shouldn’t we have the 5th pick based on the W-L records in this post? The Pirates are at #5, but they have a better record than we do. And actually, the Padres look like they should also be picking before the Cubs and Pirates based on their W-L record here.

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by HarryL on Sep 22, 2011 3:41 PM EDT reply actions

I think the current draft order is:

1. Houston
2. Minnesota
3. Baltimore
4. Seattle
5. San Diego
6. Kansas City
7. Pittsburgh

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by Scott McKinney on Sep 22, 2011 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions

The Twins Finally

Won a game that seemingly neither team wanted. SEA managed to produce 2 runs on 13 hits. However, Crow Agency, MT is still firmly in SEA’s control for the winter, taking the season series 5 games to 2. The final series in MIN should be a barn burner.

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by philofthenorth on Sep 22, 2011 4:24 PM EDT reply actions

Could David Glass look any more like Gargamel?

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by Crooow on Sep 22, 2011 4:36 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Does that make Dayton

Azrael?

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 22, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions

He's pretty short

So I would say Toolsy Smurf

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by Scott McKinney on Sep 22, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Process Smurf

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 22, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions

...

Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448

by SagehenMacGyver47 on Sep 22, 2011 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Glass looks like Gargamel's father

Or grandfather.

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by Scott McKinney on Sep 22, 2011 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions

rec

He’s not charming enough to BE Gargamel, just a freakishly life like and grumpy facsimile

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Sep 22, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions

He only wants to turn illegal immigrants into gold dubloons

Not little blue dwarfs.

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by RoyalsRetro on Sep 22, 2011 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions

if Glass could slap a blue vest and a smiley face button on illegal immigrants as the crossed the river

and then herd them off to greeter training in Bentonville, then farm them out across the US, at $2 a day, he’d be a latter day Cesar Chavez……wait, hasn’t he essentially done this with the Chinese? Chaining 8 yr olds to sewing machines to crank out wrangler jeans for pennies on the dollar, and then floating said jeans across the pacific on rafts made from the bodies of dead chinese at a fraction of the cost of “real” shipping, all under the guise of GREEN SHIPPING? I saw it on HLN.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Sep 23, 2011 1:16 AM EDT up reply actions