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June 13, 2008 at
2:24PM CST
BY GERY WOELFEL
There are just certain things in life you take for granted.
Democrats and republicans bickering … Britney Spears messing up … gas prices going north instead of south …
… and the Milwaukee Brewers having a stellar draft – at least as long as Jack Zduriencik is running the show.
Zduriencik, the Brewers’ crack scouting director, has overseen the last eight Brewers’ drafts and, to say the least, they’ve been smashing successes.
The current Brewers’ roster is laced with Zduriencik-drafted players, including stars Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder, and there are several promising prospects in the minors.
Yet, Zduriencik’s finest hour may have come last week when the Brewers had six of the top 62 picks in the draft.
Of course, Zduriencik has been around baseball way too long to make any rash assessments of the draft.
He has seen sure-fire prospects fizzle and long-shot selections overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to excel.
He knows drafts are a crap shoot.
Yet, with every draft, there is always a player who is particularly intriguing, one who makes you pause and wonder if some day he could become bona-fide major league star.
In this particular Brewers’ draft, that player for me -- Zduriencik insists all of his 54 Brewers selections in last week’s two-day draft are “worth watching’’ – is Evan Frederickson.
Frederickson is a physically-imposing pitcher from the University of San Francisco. On the surface, at least, he could be something special.
“He’s 6-6, he’s 240 pounds, he’s got a live arm … and he’s a left-hander,’’ Zduriencik said of the Brewers’ third pick and the 35th player chosen overall.
“We had a pre-draft workout at MillerPark, and he was getting it up there.
“He was throwing in the mid-90s and above.’’
Which makes Frederickson precisely the type of pitcher the pitching-challenged Brewers could use.
All left-handers have value, otherwise Shouse wouldn't be in the major's right now. Let's hope it doesn't take 3 years to find out. The Brewer's are notoriously slow to bring up young pitching prospects.
Posted by: Brett Favre on June 17, 2008 2:30PM CST
Why is it that for Jack Zduriencik the draft is a crap shoot but for Ted Thompson he must make every pick to your liking or he is an idiot? I'm not saying Zduriencik hasn't made good choices, but he's made some bad ones as well. Plus, when you draft in the top 10 year after year you better make some good picks. Besides Sheets and Gallardo what other pitchers has Jack drafted who has made an impact on the team? In reality the percentage of Thompson draftees is probably higher then Zduriencik picks, yet you continue to slam him and praise Jack. What am I missing?
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