I would have liked Virginia 1B Pavin Smith and the comps as a hitter to Olerud a lot better.
I would have been happier with the Rooker kid from Mississsipi State because I think he is more MLB ready and the wait would be shorter, Even slugging 3B Jake Burger would have been OK given the comps to a collegiate Hunter Pence in terms of style points.
I'm still not sure about Evan White 1B from Kentucky with the B-R, T-L combo. It doesn't work at the MLB level for a reason, I'm just not sure what that reason could possibly be.
One of the two LHP's drafted immediately after Ramos -- prepster D.L. Hall and Oregon's David Peterson -- would have been neat to have.
I wasn't really sold on Vanderbilt CF Jeren Kendall, but he's the Dodgers problem now.
The two UNC kids Logan Warmoth and Brian Miller were prototypical Giants picks -- low ceiling, high floor, Cape Cod warriors -- so maybe best we don't keep pounding that nail.
Maybe Ramos and Gonzalez signal a changing of the guard as far as drafting and developing high risk, high reward HS hitters. The curse of Wendell Fairly has been removed.
A good first day if that's the case for the Giants even though, according to MLB.com analysis, both were relative reaches for where the Giants drafted them.
The thumbnails on both from MLB.com follow:
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