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June 2012 - Winnipeg Bisons
Manager and GM Fritsche


15th June 2012 (Off day)

First-Year Player Draft - Doubletree Fallsview Restort & Spa, Niagara Falls, Canada

Due to the free agent signing of Tom Gorzelanny, we dropped to 34th in the draft order. According to our scout director this is a rather weak draft class and there might be no "great picks" left when it's our turn. According to Baseball America our minor league system ranks 24th, with 1B Cromsie (.351, 8 HR, 29 RBI - AAA) being the top prospect (55th). SS Harrington (.275, 12 HR, 48 RBI) who did well at big league level is only ranked 60th.
SISA thinks we have only decent talent at SS, CF and pitching, while the rest sucks big time.

Indianapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia and Buffalo will draft first.

Loeffle Blog thinks the following ten players will be drafted first:

1B Alejandro Hernández (19 years - HS)
3B Jeff Taylor (18 years - HS)
C Alfonso Campos (21 years - C)
2B José Alvarez (22 years - C)
SP Tokuzo Moss (21 years - C)
SP Roger Beauregard (17 years - HS)
1B Glenn Smith (22 years - C)
LF Enrique Arroyo (17 years - HS)
RF Chris Dickey (18 years - HS)