It is tonight that the first round of the repechage takes place. It’s a long-awaited moment for ball lovers from low ranking teams.
The Pittsburgh Pirates held the first right to speak.
And with this one, the Pennsylvania reps have set their sights on pitcher Paul Skenes, who was pitching at LSU recently.
Good choice, Pirates.
This means that my colleague Sébastien Berrouard was right: the Pirates have set their sights on the high-speed pitcher.
He is said to be a #1 big pitcher in major league baseball. Maybe the Pirates just drafted their next Gerrit Cole, who knows?
I wonder how far the Pirates pulled the rug out from under the Nationals, who could have taken the pitcher. At the same time, Washington knew that the pitcher was possibly going to be taken…
It is said of him that he is the best pitcher since Stephen Strasburg, precisely.
That means the No. 2 Nationals picked outfielder Dylan Crews. Crews and Skenes were teammates at the University of Louisiana and now they’re off to the pros.
I wonder if he’ll really ask for a big $10M signing bonus. This is the rumor that runs about him, which can say a lot about his character.
In my eyes, the top two players in the draft came out in the top two spots. That set the table for the rest of the auction, which will be held over three days.
