As it stands right now, I’d take him at 2, although I might prefer the righty from LSU, Ranaudo. But Harper has a nice-looking swing. The biggest problem with either is that they are Boras clients, which most likely means 6 seasons with us and they’re gone (or 5 if we trade them at the end). But we have to worry about getting enough talent first to be competitive first instead of that stuff, IMO.

I didn’t know it was wood bat either til reading this. His coach must have an awful lot of confidence in him. It’s quite a gamble they took. If his numbers aren’t anything special and he ends up repeating JUCO I’m not sure he’ll be a lot better of than he would have been if he stayed in HS and destroyed less talented pitchers.

You said “wood bat”.

if Alvarez isn’t ready by the time Harper is we are in big trouble. Also, as awesome as Taillon looks I just don’t see NH taking a HS pitcher in the 1st round given their failure rate. That’s the same reason I don’t think we take Ranaudo unless he takes his game to another level this year and does put too many more innings on his arm. I think we go position player again. If Harper rakes in JUCO I think we’ll take him. If not we’ll have to keep our eye on names like Colon, Brentz, Cox, Washington and the like.