{"id":6044,"date":"2012-03-07T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2012-03-07T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:10:29","slug":"draft-buzz-giolito-gausman-appel-jankowski-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/6044","title":{"rendered":"Draft Buzz: Giolito, Gausman, Appel, Jankowski, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GIOLITO_2012.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6045\" title=\"GIOLITO_2012\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GIOLITO_2012.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GIOLITO_2012.gif 500w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GIOLITO_2012-300x258.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RHP Lucas Giolito, Harvard-Westlake (CA)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Kilma of Baseball Prospect Report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbprospectreport.com\/2012\/03\/06\/lucas-giolito-update-3\">had another look<\/a> at Lucas Giolito this past week and captured more video of the right-hander.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t touch 100 MPH as he allegedly did last week, but Kilma had him at 96-98 MPH from the stack in the first and 94-96 MPH in the third.\u00a0 Kilma also states that Giolito is one of the two best 17-year-old pitchers that he\u2019s personally scouted, the other being <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernafe02.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Hernandez<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at FanGraphs, J.P. Breen examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/blogs\/index.php\/mlb-draft-high-school-bats-to-watch\/\">10 high school bats<\/a> that figure to be an early selection in the 2012 draft in June.\u00a0 The quality of prep outfield prospects this year is particularly impressive: Byron Buxton (GA), David Dahl (AL), Courtney Hawkins (TX), and Albert Almora (FL).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullpenbanter.com\/rtmenu\/698-head-to-head-appel-vs-gausman\">Jeff Reese and Al Skorupa of Bullpen Banter<\/a> compare college right-handers Kevin Gausman and Mark Appel, both of whom hope to keep their name in the 1-1 conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The great John Sickels of Minor League Ball <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minorleagueball.com\/2012\/3\/5\/2844620\/2012-baseball-mock-draft\">completed a mock draft<\/a> with Matt Garrioch and without spoiling all of the results, here is a quick glance at their top five overall: 1. Kevin Gausman (Astros); 2. Lucas Giolito (Twins); 3. Mike Zunino (Mariners); 4. Byron Buxton (Orioles); 5. Mark Appel (Royals)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/blog\/draft\/2012\/03\/game-report-travis-jankowski\/\">Conor Glassey of Baseball America<\/a> posted scouting notes and video of Stony Brook outfielder Travis Jankowski, who is currently No. 24 on their Top 100 draft board.\u00a0 The video includes Jankowski\u2019s pre-game batting practice as well as clips from a 3-for-5 performance against Eastern Carolina.\u00a0 I love how quiet this kid is at the plate not to mention his ability to use the whole field.\u00a0 I think I\u2019m going to have to go check him out once it warms up a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want to discuss prospects with Mike or simply pass along a link? Then be sure to follow him on Twitter (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goldensombrero\" target=\"_blank\">@GoldenSombrero<\/a><\/strong>).<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RHP Lucas Giolito, Harvard-Westlake (CA) John Kilma of Baseball Prospect Report had another look at Lucas Giolito this past week and captured more video of the right-hander.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t touch 100 MPH as he allegedly did last week, but Kilma had him at 96-98 MPH from the stack in the first and 94-96 MPH in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3219,1300,8,6,16,9,11,13,2368,10,14],"tags":[2610,2529,3222,3223,3206,3224,3225,3220,3221,3186,3187,3226,3227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}