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Vegas Michael Fulmer Jersey , baby!" Minor Leagues & ProspectsRoyals Review ClassicRoyals Review Users GuideThe 100 Greatest Royals Of All TimeRoyals Trade Rumors & Hot StovePreviewing the Winter Meetings for the RoyalsNew,10commentsVegas, baby!could look to add some depth and have been rumored to be very interested in outfielder Billy Hamilton. Expect the Royals to be interested in under-30-year old free agents willing to sign one-year deals, particularly players recently non-tendered. The Royals have a lot of holes in their bullpen, and Dayton Moore has expressed interest in adding relievers. He wants to wait out the market and sign “guys on the rebound.” Will the Royals trade Whit Merrifield?It doesn’t seem likely at this point. Moore has said that to win going forward, “we need Whit Merrifield on the team.” The Royals have Merrifield under club control through 2022, and expect to be ready to make a move to contend by 2021. Still, trading Whit after a career-best season in which he was a 5.2 WAR player and has several controllable years could be maximizing his trade value, helping to accelerate the rebuild. Expect the Royals to at least listen to offers for Whit, but not make a trade unless they are overwhelmed by a return. The free agent market for second basemen is strong, which could hurt the chances of a team offering top prospects for Whit. However Leonys Martin Jersey , if a team gets spurned by guys like Jed Lowrie and D.J LeMahieu, they may turn to the Royals for a cheap, long-term option.As for other trades, most other Royals players are either young enough to be part of the future or have large contracts that make them difficult go move. There could be some interest in Danny Duffy but it seems unlikely the Royals would move him and there is no chance they move Salvador Perez.What will other teams be doing at the Winter Meetings?The two big blockbuster free agents - Manny Machado and Bryce Harper - are still unsigned, and teams will make their big pitch to land those superstars that will include truckloads of money. The Mariners appear to be in firesale mode and will look to move every asset they can, so look for General Manager Jerry Dipoto to be racing around the lobby of the Mandalay Bay in a Monster Energy-fueled mania, trading all of his relievers for a package of Slim Jims. The Braves and Phillies are pushing their chips in to make a big splash to contend next year. Teams like the Reds, Mets, Rays, and White Sox are making interesting moves to get better. The Marlins are hitting themselves on the head with a hammer. Will the Royals make a selection in the Rule 5 draft?The Royals found a gem in Brad Keller last year, so it seems likely they would turn to that well once again. The Royals non-tendered four players to clear room on the roster last week http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , allowing them to make a selection with the #2 overall pick. Look for them to select an arm or two, with a number of pitchers available that could step into their bullpen. It seems unlikely they would take a hitter, but there are a few utility infielders and speedsters that could help. The Rule 5 draft will take place on the morning of the last day of the Winter Meetings. The Dodgers lost a draft pick for signing A. J. Pollock, but gained one for losing Yasmani Grandal. But what kinds of future players do those picks represent?"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections 2019 Spring TrainingProspectsCommentaryNews and NotesCommentarySo what can we expect from that draft pick anyway?New,421commentsThe Dodgers lost a draft pick for signing A. J. Pollock, but gained one for losing Yasmani Grandal. But what kinds of future players do those picks represent?PSTShareTweetShareShareSo what can we expect from that draft pick anyway?The Dodgers drafted Paco Rodriguez with the 82nd selection in the 2012 MLB draft, a similar position to the compensation pick for Yasmani Grandal will fall in 2019.Kirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsThe offseason free-agent signings for players coming to and leaving Los Angeles have shuffled the draft picks for the Dodgers. Signing A. J. Pollock resulted in forfeiting their second-round draft pick in 2019, which would have been about 65th overall, and losing $500,000 in international free agent money.On the other side of the ledger, for having Yasmani Grandal signed away by the Milwaukee Brewers http://www.tigersfanproshop.com/authentic-joe-jimenez-jersey , the Dodgers gained a pick after Compensation Round B and before the third round, about 79th overall.But what kind of player might you expect to land in this range of draft selections?I’m certainly no prospects expert, nor can I expound on what sort of equivalent monetary value such a pick may have, but we can certainly take a sampling of historical picks in this region and draw some general conclusions.It’s also worth noting that with these picks come (or go) the slot money associated with them. The Dodgers overall budget has decreased by the slot dollars difference between the two picks above. In 2018 that was about $235,000.I chose to look at the 2010, 2011 and 2012 drafts, and overall picks 61 to 85. I selected these years to strike a balance of “old enough that a decent feel for player outcomes are known” and “recent enough to be reasonably reflective of current scouting and evaluation processes”. The draftees from high school in 2012 are a little young at around 24, but the college players from 2010 might be 30 now.I always wanted to limit this exercise to a sample size I could handle without spending an inordinate time on this. Also, note that all this information was extracted from the invaluable baseball-reference.com.Here’s the information from the three drafts. WAR is the cumulative major-league WAR to date.That’s a lot of white space in the WAR columns! Only 39 of these 75 players, or 52%, have seen the major leagues at all. Roughly a coin flip’s chance that you never see this draftee on the big club.Andrelton Simmons is the clear outlier in WAR at about 35 Jeimer Candelario Jersey , while Alex Wood and Drew Smyly are a small group of their own in the 10-WAR vicinity. Ten players fall between 2.0 and 6.2 WAR. These 13 are only 17% of the drafted players and 33% of those that reach the majors.Very roughly 80% of these draftees provide less than 2 WAR or don’t even reach the majors.The Dodgers draftees? Paco Rodriguez, Alex Santana and Ralston Cash. Uh huh.Perhaps you recognize a name or two that isn’t in the majors yet, but I eyeballed it and spotted no top prospects.On the other hand, Tony Renda, chosen 80th overall in 2012, will receive a World Series ring this year because he made one August appearance for the Boston Red Sox, as a pinch-runner. (He did score the walkoff run in that game.)There’s always a chance that a high-school or college athlete selected in this range will turn out really well for the drafting team, and for that player. But the odds don’t seem to be in their favor.