I’m not bitter about a lot. But I am bitter that the M’s are already really good and just got a lot better. Jedi is winning and that sucks given he walked out on this Org.
yet still has never been to a World Series. In fact Dipoto’s teams have never been to an ALCS
Yes. That’s the counter argument. But they are well run. I would take their direction over the Halos’.
Ok, it’s over, time for me to stop whining and get back to watching baseball (not the AS crap).
As we were feeling much better about the big club and the grit of the young players, was hoping the draft would spring board us even further. Would have been great to have a Holiday in the pipeline and a couple of OFs along with HS arms. No such luck.
One thing I can handle, not drafting a college arms in later rounds. Happy to see some high school prospects infused into the system with room to grow. Just not sure they are the right arms.
I covet Cal Raleigh
90th pick in 2018, Florida State. Signed that extension just a wee bit early.
Meanwhile these announcers at the home run derby are embarrassing. Arrgh ! We’re meaner than mean!
It sounds like Idiocracy’s Rehabilitation Night or some stupid wrestling match
Well, between this year, last year, and some of our IFA signings we are certainly not short on young pitching gambles. !990s Braves of the 2030s. 95% certain.
Someone wondered earlier if we got some Braves scouts on staff since we took a lot of Georgia kids. Maybe. the Braves draft is pretty cookoo crap too.
That was me.
The Braves’ farm has been going south for a few years. Bottom 3 in the game according to the latest BA rankings.
It’s a really poor system to be cribbing off of, but it seems like it’s the one Perry knows and keeps homework-snooping on the past few years.
Agree that their 2025 draft was underwhelming.
In the AL West, I’m not feeling Houston’s or Texas’s drafts. I do like the M’s and A’s draft classes a lot.
The A’s got several of my guys – Arnold, Turley, Dutton, Boser – and caught a faller in Devin Taylor that was a real steal at #48. I also followed Zane Taylor all sesaon as a potential torso pick, but didn’t write about him in the pitching article.
The Mariners got Kade of course – my top guy – along with Dickerson and Jay. And three guys I thought were excellent value where they drafted them – Stevenson, Becker and Hugus. Theirs was a pitcher-heavy draft as well, but much more workable college pitching, and it was BPA all the way with their first six selections.
Gage Harrison was a guy I asked Turk’s about in a previous thread and is further proof of why I’m not a scout. Kid looked good when I watched him. I didn’t expect him to last until 15.
One down seven to go….
Tempe bound. To the lab.
Sweet! I hope they squeeze every dollar of savings out of the Bremner pick because it’s going to be an overslot disco in ’25.
Suffice to say, Perry’s Pitching Lab better get to work.
Weirdest, riskiest Angels draft class I can recall since 2010. Though that class had a lot of high upside prep bats, and more diversity than this one.
Seven prep arms and six college relievers. Only one near-term SP draftee.
Hard to believe it.
But at least we can’t burn through 5 1st round draft picks this time.
I mean, I fully understand Bane’s logic. He pulled off the best draft in a quarter century in 2009, and had his best results with prep kids.
Meanwhile, Moreno had shied away from signing Matt Harvey only a couple years earlier due to bonus demands, so he had to be budget conscious with his picks.
So, with extra picks, he wanted to go for upside and youth, but he had to do it in a way that wouldn’t break the bank. So he sought out athletes, but the system didn’t successfully develop then. It also coincided with the era when Moreno was tearing down the Latin program and beginning to seek efficiencies (maybe we should say austerity) on the farm.
But after 2009, I think you give Bane a gimme, and see what he does with his next 2-3 drafts.
Fully agree. 💯
Bane’s termination was the beginning of the end of days. Winter is coming.
Actually it was Stoneman’s retirement . Arte wouldn’t dare mess with the GM position until Stoneman stepped down.
We may need 2 OFs and a 3B after next year, and we’ll have to buy them all.
There were a lot on the table when/where the Angels drafted.
Even if it wasn’t full of my “guys”, Miami probably had the draft closest to what the Angels needed – their first six selections were position players, starting with a 3B in Arquette, and moving on to three straight college OFs – a full outfield, with two power-oriented corner guys and contact-oriented CF with plus defense.
I’d have settled for the Twins or Rays draft
Yeah – not saying the Miami draft was my favorite, but it would have made me say “oh, that’s another way to do it” and I would have been excited to watch those guys perform.
The Rays draft is a different version of the prep bat draft I was contemplating with the Parker Brothers. Lot of risk there, but the Rays usually know how to develop younger players, or trade them at the height of value.
Draft classes I admire: Twins, Red Sox, Pirates, Marlins, Rockies. As I mention above A’s and Mariners did well, and Baltimore completely slayed.
Not getting the draft classes for the Angels, Texas or Houston. Detroit’s class seem weak, given the overall strength of their farm. The Giants and Padres groups also seem light, even if the Pads pulled in Thibodeaux and Kerrington Cross in later rounds. Braves had a perplexing draft.
The Pads also took some big risk/reward picks
Ladies and gentleman, for your last pick, drum roll please…..
#589 – Sam Tookoian – P
Unranked
And there you have it!!! the 2025 Angels MLB Draft!!!
Has looked good, I read, in summer league ball but not so hot in the SEC. That’s probably why he wasn’t selected until the last round
Big relief pitcher. Full name Sarkis Edward Tookoian
Another Tookie Tookie?
Perry to re-sign Touki Toussaint to make it so.
hes already in Salt Lake
JoJo’s brother goes in round 19
Seems like he’s set on school. Probably had his eye on $1.5-2M, maybe a package deal with his brother, and it didn’t materialize.
20 rounds but we might miss out on some of the prep kids. There will also be unstaffed signings although the Angels haven’t done as much there as I’d like
Actually, the Angels have been one of the heaviest on UDFAs under Perry of MLB teams – at least in quantity. Top five in undrafted signs over the last few seasons.
Good to know, glad to be informed
As a drafting strategy, I like those late-round HS fliers. $150K might be enough to sign them… like it was for Manny’s kid last year, who by the way is having a pretty solid year in the ACL.
Seattle takes a huge gamble on Cameron Appenzeller, ranked #58, but a HS Sr.
They can use that Kade Anderson below slot money
FYI people should read CBS Sports. They are rating Shores as the Halos best pick after round one. And touting him as a potential all-star. FWIW.
I mean, I don’t think we should just cherry pick the media source that best spins our picks. 🙂
I’ve read 10+ evaluators on Shores, watched him in action many times, looked at plenty of video.
Shores has a handful of advocates because he throws 102. He’s Ben Joyce with less control, and a more recent injury history at draft time. He’s wild thing.
15% chance he becomes a durable MLB closer or set-up man. 40% chance he gets injured and never sees more than a handful of innings. 45% chance he takes the Ben Joyce and Bachman routes – looking good for a couple months in the Majors, then succumbing to injuries and volatility, with an up and down future.
You’re basically betting on a FB, and hope the slider ticks up to make him a late inning weapon. The Angels might trot him out as a starter a la Cortez, but he has little command, below-average control, and his changeup isn’t there yet to start.
The way Perry seems to be going, three out of five games we will just use four relievers and won’t need starters at all. CHAOS!
What do you mean we can’t cherry-pick? Of course we can. You make it sound like most scouts/pundits thought he was undraftable. In fact, he was a consensus Top 100 prospect, no? Per MLB he was a “midweek starter” before blowing out his elbow in 2023… so you know, let the kid have 1% or something if you can manage it.
You’re fully welcome to cherrypick, grich. I would just look at the whole picture – the totality of evaluators – rather than trying to find the most positive spin on any given prospect. “Midweek starters” are where you place your most volatile or developmental arms, btw, and his tenure lasted all of four starts (18 IP total in ’23).
Just don’t call me a cuck again when we disagree. 🙂
(And btw, that was utterly uncalled for, and I remember it more than any other personally abusive comment in the past six months.)
All my dreams are dead. I hate this draft.
You wanted more kids. Perry is delivering with all the HS kids
kids with a lowercase k
Winners and Losers of Draft Day 2025
Winners: none
Losers: (a) anyone that passes a definitive judgement on what just occurred in the last 24 hours
(b) the Angels, probably
I take an exception there are winners. They are:
(a) everyone with a draft report card who is not employed by a major league team since unlike most other major professional sport , at least 85 % of all of these drafted players will be forgotten about after 3 years since there is zero accountability
I’ve been monitoring all this stuff and reading all the great draft coverage on this website the past few weeks.
As I’ve read for the past 24 hours, I’ve found myself getting all worked up and ticked off how Perry screwed up the draft, and am now not very supportive of him anymore.
Then I realized that I’m entirely just mirroring all the reactions of everyone else, and basically doing a “well if all of them say it sucks and are pissed off, then I’ll be too!” I haven’t done a shred of my own research.
I know my comment doesn’t really relate to the actual draft… I’m just amused when I took a moment to self-reflect and see how quickly I jumped into the mob mentality. I was ready to grab a torch and pitchfork and head down to Katella with you all!
Welp. I don’t like this draft. But, since we have what we have now I can either be a sore dick about it or look at the guys we got and see what has to happen for any of them to work. Then I’ll watch em in the minors and see if anything shakes out.
sadly, this is hard right now too because a lot of the prospects, even all of the prospects, I like in our system are having bad seasons….
ah well, there’s always booze and beating on the homeless and children….
Let’s hope we make some meaningful trades over the next few weeks, although I have my doubts.
#559 – Ivan Tatis – SS
Unranked. HS Sr.
9 HS picks
I wonder if any relation to Fernando
Baseball academy standout, a la Mikey Cascino.
Sooo many Georgia signs here.
I have to think one or two scouts came over from the Braves to the Angels org recently. The geographic concentration is emphatic. 7-8 guys drafted from the Braves backyard.
Wait. I thought we didn’t have any scouts?
Have I ever said the Angels have no scouts? I’ve criticized the team for heavy regionalization in their scouting (West Coast coverage seems very light), and for firing their crosscheckers, but no scouts?
Post draft sarcasm T.T. I’m sure Cheap & Evil Arte let Perry pick up some of AA’s castoffs.
A little hopium here
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBEAUr9xD8b/?igsh=NW41anliNHlyZnVz
Much like the Lucas Ramirez and Balian Caraballo signs last year.
Reds take a gamble on HS SR Ethan Moore – ranked 100
Angels 2025 Draft Picks Rounds 11-20
Team bonus pools are allocated to the picks in rounds 1 through 10. If a team fails to sign a draft pick, they forfeit the slot value of that pick from their draft pool.
For the remainder of the draft, teams can sign players for up to $150,000 with no penalty. Any payment above $150,000 is counted against the team’s bonus pool. This creates a dynamic in which high school players with college commitments are drafted after the 10th round. Teams will try to sign early picks for less than slot value and allocate the savings towards a prepster drafted later.
Perry Minasian has been a follower of this strategy for years and with Tyler Bremner a surprise pick at #2, could have funds available to try to buy some late round talent. Follow along here.