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Originally Posted by TelfairNyCOG
So you think Gerritt Cole has the best stuff in the draft, yet he's gonna slip so hard? This isn't going to be another Detroit Tigers like thing when they snuck up to get Porcello is it? Or is Cole considered to be of inferior quality then Porcello?
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you can't really compare cole to porcello, considering they're entirely different pitchers with different situations. the only similarity is they both share the same representation. porcello is much more polished than cole is, cole has a higher ceiling in my belief, and they have different arsenals and approaches on the hill. i do expect cole to fall in the draft due to "signability" concerns, and this is nothing new to the draft. for instance, in the past few years i can name quite a few examples just off the top of my head (and they're many more in the deeper rounds): mark teixeira, joe borchard, jeremy guthrie, stephen drew, andy laroche, jered weaver, luke hochevar (in 2005), craig hansen, and andrew miller, lars anderson, porcello, among many others just in the last two years.
since no slotting system exists in the mlb draft as there does in the nba and nfl, players sliding into the deeper rounds due to demand bonuses, strong desires to attend college or stay in school, or the different phases of the moon: it's all part of the drafts unpredictability.