With No. 21 pick, O's select HS LHP D.L. Hall from Valdosta, Ga.

DL Hall
#2
Posted 12 June 2017 - 08:22 PM
3/4 slot with repeatable arm action...good vertical and horizontal plane at times. Decent Break, real live arm when he needs it.
#3
Posted 12 June 2017 - 08:24 PM
@CamdenDepot 31s31 seconds ago
I would not have selected Hall, but he is a very respectable selection.
To be clear, Hall is not a safe pick. Loud tools. Good ways off. Very high ceiling. Secondary closer option. Low floor though.
#4
Posted 12 June 2017 - 08:25 PM
@greg_goldstein1 (New BSL Analyst)
Athletic and projectable HS lefty. Thought the O's were going the college route, but he has a lot of raw arm talent, HS arms are risky tho
#5
Posted 12 June 2017 - 08:30 PM
Haven't followed closely this year, but by most accounts high upside with risk. Not the direction I was expecting but seems a solid pick.
#6
Posted 12 June 2017 - 08:31 PM
#7
Posted 12 June 2017 - 09:13 PM
I'll take that. That could easily have been a BPA situation. Nothing wrong with that.
#8
Posted 12 June 2017 - 09:30 PM
More Rajsich on Hall - "We project seeing him in our starting rotation in the near future."
#11
Posted 13 June 2017 - 01:10 AM
Melewski:
More Rajsich on Hall - "We project seeing him in our starting rotation in the near future."
Rajsich thinks we're going to see a HS pitcher in the Orioles starting rotation in the near future.
Just seems like a silly thing to say.
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#12
Posted 13 June 2017 - 07:00 AM
I wonder how soon it'll be before DL goes on the....DL.
#13
Posted 13 June 2017 - 08:05 AM
Poor kid - only shot he has at major league stardom is if we trade or cut him.
Call me a pessimist.
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#14
Posted 13 June 2017 - 08:16 AM
Poor kid - only shot he has at major league stardom is if we trade or cut him.
Call me a pessimist.
Lol. Love it. Sad, but so true. Bundy looking like a possible rare exception. And a fellow high schooler, who endured his DL woes and has made it out the other side. Good omens?
“We have a shot at a wild card right now. But it is not a probability that we're going to win a wild card.” -2022 Trade Deadline
"It's liftoff from here" - after selling on 2022
"We're on a slight upward arc" - Winter Meetings 2022
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Mike Elias
#15
Posted 13 June 2017 - 08:33 AM
I get the pessimism based on the O's Development history, but there doesn't seem to be any questions regarding his talent.
Every prospect is unique. Let's see what happens. Myself, I'm pleased to get a guy with some clear ceiling.
#16
Posted 13 June 2017 - 12:13 PM
Keith Law likes this pick.....seriously he actually likes something the O's did.....that can't be good.....lol
#17
Posted 13 June 2017 - 12:43 PM
There is no such thing as a safe bet at #21, so I'm very much on board with them going for a high risk high reward guy who if he hits could be one of the best pitchers in the draft. What I don't have much of a feel for is if he is good enough to merit going overslot which means we'll need to go underslot with several other top-10 picks to fit him within our bonus pool. Just based on the BA rankings for the other two guys we drafted last night, it looks like this already may be happening.
Low to mid-90s LHP with a great curveball sounds a lot like Erik Bedard to me, who I used to love watch pitch despite his flaws.
#18
Posted 13 June 2017 - 12:46 PM
Clayton Kershaw was once a high ceiling HS, LHP.
So was Tyler Matzek.
Short version, you know nothing Jon Snow, so check back in a couple years.
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#19
Posted 17 June 2017 - 10:23 AM
#20
Posted 15 March 2018 - 08:59 AM
MASN: O’s top pick DL Hall preps for his first full season of pro ball
http://www.masnsport...f-pro-ball.html
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