Crowdsourcing Results: Gonzalez and Reynolds

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December 10, 2010

Here are your results from this week’s round of topical crowdsourcing.

Adrian Gonzalez (Red Sox / Padres)
My vote: 16 / 25
Average: 13.3 / 23.2
Median: 12 / 23
Std Dev: 5.3 / 6.6

Good news: 95% of you read the instructions and voted based on the pick, not the round. These numbers started out around the 15 and 25 marks in the beginning, and slowly crawled their way down as the hours wore on. Perhaps I was a bit bearish with my predictions, because the numbers you all came up with make sense. Essentially, Gonzalez will be taken at the turn in every draft, and I did just that in a mock draft yesterday. If I can start a team with Gonzalez as one of my two cornerstones, I’m happy.

Mark Reynolds
My vote: 10
Average: 7.8
Median: 8
Std Dev: 3

This is probably the farthest I’ve been off thus far. Reynolds is an interesting guy coming off a poor year, and I thought the 10th round was generous enough for owners hoping for a bounceback. I believed a 10th round pick was pretty safe due to his move to the AL East and some expected regression in his batting average. Apparently, I was wrong. If it’s going to cost a seventh or eighth round pick to nab Reynolds, I’m probably staying away. That risk isn’t worth it to me with so many other players left on the board, even with the weak third base class. That’s just me, and I’m wondering if any of you are willing to take that leap of faith with Reynolds?





 

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Chris
13 years ago

Wouldn’t it really depend on what was left on the board though? If he’s the top 3B out there and there are plenty of solid corner OF’s out there I’d draft Reynolds before any of them. I’d rather take my chances on Maggs later than miss out on a guy that could be huge in a CI spot.

Also, with the scenario above, would Reynolds be too much of a reach at the end of the 8th vs the start of the 10th? I mean, lets look at the top 3B next year (not in any real order): Longoria, A-Rod, Beltre, Zimmerman, Youkilis, McGehee, Wright and perhaps Prado. Then after that you get into riskier / platoon picks like Sandoval, Stewart, Figgins or the bottom of the barrel guys that are more or less warm bodies at 3B. Reynolds has by far more upside than the rest of the group. I just can’t trust Rolen and AmRam (too few games last year) and Bautista will be picked way too high for my taste.

Lets also not forget that Reynolds is more of a big ‘name’ than Prado or McGehee, some one will most likely reach past the 8th for him hoping to get a stud.

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