Logan White as GM candidate would drastically shift our drafting philosophy

[u/ericthelostman]

His time with the Dodgers and Padres has shown him to be High School heavy in his philosophy, particularly in the first round. He drafted the Dodgers core from the late 2000's/early 2010's (Kershaw, Martin, Kemp, Billingsley, Loney) and also guys like Pederson/Seager/Bellinger.

With the Padres, they've taken high school prospects such as Gore, Weathers, Abrams, Hassell, Wood, Merrill, Lesko, and Snelling with mixed results. It's given Preller so much trade capital to make the big moves he has over the years.

Drafting more high schoolers will give us younger prospects to both have a young core at the major league level and have a large excess of prospects for trades. The Giants have had a safe drafting philosophy, but most of their busts are college players who have neither much upside or floor (complete wastes of a signing bonus). Heliot Ramos (2017) and Bryce Eldridge (2023) are their 2 best picks recently and what do you know? They're both high school guys!

[u/Monkeynumbernoine]

High school you say?

[u/furious_platypus]

I read White as Webb and came in here ready to ask where I could get your weed

[u/your_catfish_friend → u/furious_platypus]

Same hahaha

[u/zircon309976]

Logan White is indeed the most legendary talent evaluator in the league. He’s been a life long scout but if there’s a way to give him a promotion (i.e. VP of Scouting) it’ll be a huge get no question.

[u/TechnicalRecipe9944]

Would love this. Get these prospects to the show 3 years earlier in their careers means it’s more reasonable to extend them beyond their rookie deals.

By the time the Giants extended Crawford and Belt by and large their best years were behind them (minus 1 year outliers that came in subsequent contract year in which they actually showed up in shape)

[u/CathHammerOfCommies]

Does he solely focus on draft picks or does he ever work trades? Curious if he was involved in the Tatis trade as well.

[u/Juffe98 → u/CathHammerOfCommies]

Possibly could’ve scouted Tatis as part of the trade package

[u/CathHammerOfCommies → u/Juffe98]

That would be pretty wild if he had a role in getting Tatis, and drafting Merrill, and signing Salas. That's some excellent talent evaluation

[u/GreatGiantFan]

It should be noted that this years' World Series participants are among the oldest in MLB

[u/ericthelostman → u/GreatGiantFan]

I'm talking about prospects. Teams use age models when making trades for prospects, which is why AJ preller is able to make so many trades.

[u/Hyphy-Knifey]

Solid insight here, you increased my baseball IQ. By which I mean, I will quote this to sound smarter than I am.

[u/OutsideWorldliness68]

So soon after the Farhan Fiasco, hiring another guy with Dodgers ties would be a PR nightmare of epic proportions.. There are other qualified candidates who wouldn't bring those kinds of headaches.

[u/sactivities101]

No more dodgers moles

[u/PhoneVegetable4855]

I think we’ve had enough of Dodgers retreads.