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 | ABL News: Draft Pool Revealed Monday, December 2nd, 2013: With the rookie draft only weeks away, clubs are huddled in their conference rooms, mapping out scouting strategies with their eye toward the future. These sabermetrical speculators will be traipsing across the fruited plain, hunting for the ideal find, trying to decipher the will, drive and pure passion on the unknown youthful faces before them. Some will rely on tried-and-true baseball knowledge, others psychology. And others will live by luck alone. Though their final assessments will be made and hashed over many times before draft day, the repercussions of draft day, good or bad, will endure long after the dust has settled. At any rate, teams now have thirty days to scout the draft pool prior to the draft. The Transactions page also gets a new section dedicated to the pool. The top players available (in no particular order) seem to be: 1. Curt Hall, 22 year-old catcher out of college. 2. Jeff Everhart, 22 year-old center fielder out of college. 3. John Brooks, 22 year-old second baseman out of college. 4. Lance Harmon, 22 year-old starting pitcher out of college. 5. Soshu Hirose, 30 year-old right fielder out of college. 6. Tsukasa Yamanoue, 24 year-old starting pitcher out of college. 7. Tashiaki Tanaka, 37 year-old first baseman out of college. 8. Aaron Harris, 22 year-old starting pitcher out of college. 9. Kohei Takeuchi, 27 year-old shortstop out of college. 10. Toshiro Shimada, 26 year-old right fielder out of college. You can find the draft pool in the league transactions screen (league menu). |   |
