In no order: Alvarez, Posey, Smoak, T. Beckham, Hosmer, Matusz, G. Beckham
Time for a quick look around the blogosphere (yes, I said "blogosphere") for pre-draft day rumblings:
- BA has the Giants picking Justin Smoak. A first baseman who can hit for power and who can easily slide into the majors by 2010? Yes, please.
- Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com goes with Buster Posey, who can hit for a little power but who is heralded for game-calling.
- BP and Anthony Goldstein projects Gordon Beckham, one of the two Beckham shortstops who can fill the Giants' gaping organizational holes at the position.
- RealGM sticks to the Giants' philosophy of stacking young arms and predicts Gerrit Cole at #5.
- The Giants have their eye on Kyle Skipworth, a high-school catcher, according to TSN.
- John Barr, the Giants' new scouting director, supposedly has Hosmer at the top of the draft board, followed by T. Beckham and Smoak.
- The Front-Row's brother blog hits big-time with their first Q & A with Justin Weyman. The former Penn State radio voice sheds some insight on several players who could don a Giants cap tomorrow.
- With all this attention given to the first round picks, you may start to wonder, what about the supplemental picks? Martin at OGC answers exactly that.
- For all the prognosticating and philosophying, only one source predicted 4 out of the first 30 picks correctly for last year's draft (I'm not counting David Price, who was the sure-fire #1 pick). The winner: John Sickels.
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