Rotation Draft - February 11, 2023                     

The USPBL's annual ROTATION from for the 2023 season was held on Feb 11th.

Rich (CLC #4) hosted the event on TEAM. With 3 Walsh's gathered in one location, and Rich representing both CLC and MVN, there were a total of 16 teams present.There was one list and 3 drafted by phone.

The draft took place over 3 hours 19 minutes which is a little better than in previous years.

The first round took a bit longer than usual or we may have even cracked the 3 hour barrier.

Round 1   39 min        RND 2   27 min         RND 3   32 min          RND 4   26 min 

RND 5      23 min        RND 6   30 min         RND 7   22 min

This was odd, that rounds 5 and 7 were the quickest when they normally were the slowest.

There were 45 Uncarded players drafted. This includes only those that did not play at all in the Majors.

Many players are still prospects but have a few At Bats and Innings giving them cards. 

This represents 32% of the players drafted. Nine UC were selected in the 1st round including the two very first picks! There were also nine UC in the 5th round. Only four UC were drafted in round 2.

Oddity - In round 3 there was a stretch of 11 picks with only pitchers and catchers selected.

By Position:  65 pitchers which is 46% of the 140 players drafted. Among these were just 12 UC players.

That of coarse leaves 75 position players for the other 54%.  33 are UC.

Catchers - 14  (7 UC)          1B  6  (2)          2B  6  (2)          3B  7  (4)

Shortstop - 11  (9)                OF   29  (9)     DH  2  (0)           

There were 5 "Dylan's" drafted.     


WHO GOT WHO?

During the draft, teams are selecting players one after another. Our main task is to keep track of who's been drafted so we can plan our next pick accordingly. Thus we may see a player go off the board, but we're not necessarily seeing which team got the player.

So here's a list of which players were selected by each USPBL team:

1 BRM Matt Carpenter, TJ Friedl, Masataka Yoshida, Brooks Raley,   Colson Montgomery, Junior Caminero 

2 VAV Coby Mayo, Luke Maile, Lars Nootbar, Dylan Beavers, Kyle Harrisson, Alex Lange

3  FMM  Redolfo Castro, Emmanuel Rivera, Albert Pujols, Jack Suwinski, Oscar Gonzalez, Dylan Moore,

Joely Rodriguez, Nick Martinez, Keegan Akin, Colin Pache, John Brebbia, Gordon Graceffo

4  CLC  Dalton Rushing, Mason Auer, Chase Dollander, Edwin Arroyo 

5 MIX    Edourd Julian, Munateka Murakami, Oswaldo Cabrerra, Yashinobu Yamamoto, Jorge Lopez,

Matt Moore, Ryne Nelson, Graham Ashcroft

6 WDW  Lewin Diaz, Charles Leblanc, Enrique Bradfield, Bubba Thompson, Eli White, Ron Marinaccio,

Nasim Nunez

7 OTB Mauricio Dubon, Nick Fortes, Trace Thompson, Sam Haggerty, Ryan McKenna, Jovani Moiran, 

Jimmy Hergot, Bryan Baker, Yency Almonte, DL Hall, Johan Oviedo, Braxton Garrett

8 RVD  Luis Ortiz, Rhett Louder

9 CHC  Kevin Parada, Jackson Merrill

10 WIS  Joey Meneses, Scott Effross, Spencer Steer, Ryan Nada, Konnor Pilkington, Joey Wiemer,

Yosver Zuleta

11 MVN   Matt Mervis, Edgar Quero, Vaun Brown, Adam Ottavino, Esteury Ruiz, Dylan Coleman,

Gavin Cross, Tanner Rainey, Yanquiel Fernandez

12 CON Zack Geldof, Logan O'Hoppe, Brock Logan, Seby Zavela, Griffin Jax, Jose Quijada, Drey Jameson

Sean Brouchard, Coonor Overton

13 SAS   John Schreiber,  Kyle Braddish

14 MIR    PJ Higgins, Stuart Fairchild, Adrian Sampson, Rafael Montero, Alan Trejo

15 SRR  Harry Ford, Brayon Bello, Dylan Lee, Enyel De los Santos, Hunter Harvey, Kenta Maeda

16 SCM  Luis Rengifo, Casey Schmitt, Austin Wells, Yanier Diaz, Miguel Bleis, Rob Refsnyder, 

Bryce Miller, Penn Muree, Cionel Perez, David Robertson, Zach Jackson, Zach Nieto, Joey Ortiz 

17 LMD   Mark Vientos, Jason Delay, Jake McCarthy, Brock Burke, Andre Pallante, Jaime Barria, 

Keegan Thompson, Adrian Morejan, Loiver Peguero

18 GGM  Alfonso Rivas, Jeffery Springs, Tanner Scott, Trevor Stephan, Corey Kluber, Carson Williams,

Addison Barger

19 SSB  Garrret Stubbs, Jasson Dominguez, Alec Burlson, Owen White, Griff McGary, Caleb Ferguson

Seth Martinez, Andy Pages

20 LSR  Kyle Manzardo, Rickey Tiedman, Cam Collier, Wyatt Langford, Dylan Lesko, Ken Waldichuk