Gary Brown: Jacoby Ellsbury or Arturo McDowell?

Come up fast man..litteraly fast we need you to replace Aaron Rowand!!! like mabey now lol

Doppleganger: Florida Traitor

I think I’ve finally reached acceptance. I think he has a chance (offensively) to be Freddy Sanchez with speed (read: empty .300). I think his floor is Drew Macias. I think his likelihood is that he’s a 4th OF.

I just saw the end of the 7th inning. LOL Molina’s arm.

I had Brown in the 75-100 range on my draft board. He’s going to have to be one of the best defenders in baseball and a serious power threat to compensate for his lack of patience.

An A’s draft pick out of high school (390th overall in 2007), he actually managed to lower his walk rate in each of his three seasons at Fullerton, though his 2010 power and contact improvements are promising.

I’ll be surprised if Brown turns into more than a No. 4 outfielder. And I’m with you Grant, there were quite a few guys still out there who I would have much rather had. This pick is worse than the Jackson Williams pick to me. The Giants have made some very questionable decisions with their early hitter selections over the last four years.

and i’ve seen brown play a couple of times. i honestly don’t know what warrants the 1st round pick besides his speed and maybe his spray contact…

would be an excellent pick in round 2. Others to consider on Day 2

Micah Gibbs
Brett Eibner
James Paxton
Robbie Aviles
Justin Grimm
Yordy Cabrera
Griffin Murphy
Stefan Sabol

I don’t really like the pick and was really surprised that they picked him. I was thinking more along the lines of Castellano since Colon was surprisingly off the board early. The more I see Wolters the more I like him. I really really hope he is around by our next pick.

Hey, nice fake bunt.

Texas Rangers signed #22 overall pick Kellin Deglan for $1M – hear that Scott Boras. Maybe the Giants can sign Gary Brown shortly after CSF ends and gets him to S-K.

Baseball America: Brown has staggering speed, blazing down the line in 3.69 seconds on bunt attempts and 3.91 and 3.94 on full swings from the right side. Currently nursing a hand injury, Brown had a great 2010 season, hitting .438 for Fullerton. He’s a wonderful center fielder, with an average arm and brilliant fielding skills. He has improved steadily with the bat and figures to hit for average and some pop as a pro.

Can I get a Flarhgunnstow?

is making this organization look pre historic. I mean can’t the management see how different our offense looks with guys that take pitches instead of free swingers. There’s an objective lesson in their face every day, yet still they seem to think that taking someone who has no semblance of plate discipline is going to work out.

Insanity – doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results/

Liked it (Fullerton kid, good speed, makes contact/high BABIP?)

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Hated it (Started listening to McCoven negativity and it wore me down.)

Like it again (reading reports, gap hitter with speed will play well in a 2B/3B park. also covering OF ground.)

The sky is not falling, maybe he can pan out, although first round "maybe" is a bummer. But the FO seems to do nicely with later round picks, so tomorrow might be fun.

According to my personal rankings the Giants had the worst draft of anyone in the NL West-on day 1 of course. The good news is no one had that good of a draft (in the NL West, IMO) and, hey, the dodgers have the toughest guy to sign in the whole draft.

Is that we already have 3 guys that have similar skill sets to Brown in McBryde, Ford & Peguero. I dunno, maybe I haven’t reached acceptance yet.

A high upside pitcher in the 2nd (Cole, Allie, Paxton etc) and Andrelton Simmons in the 3rd.

He hit .292 with a .374 on-base percentage as a freshman, which isn’t a bad separation between AVG and OBP. But once a guy starts hitting .438 — and especially when teams aren’t exactly going to pitch around his power — there’s no sense in him trying to eke out a walk every single at-bat. Other than a couple of fluky seasons, Tony Gwynn usually had a walk rate pretty far below the league average, but no one ever said he had poor habits in working counts. Once Brown stops hitting .400, maybe the walk rate will climb again to an acceptable level.

His walk rate was still below the MLB average that year, and the year after that (when he hit .340) it was already terrible. I think it’s safe to say he is a hacker.

Also, I guess I’ll be the first to say this: Tony Gwynn very clearly had a serious problem working counts.

While Keith Law admits that he isn’t “A huge fan of Gary Brown” and runs down his hitting skills…he still put the GIants on his ‘Best’ list on Day 1 since what Brown does bring to the table is a good fit.

I think that’s also taken relative to where he was taken, too. Everyone at that point had warts. So the Giants took a guy who is an 80 at an uncoachable skill, and had upside in a few other areas.

It’s not exciting, but I don’t think it’s a bad pick at all.

I’m mainly hoping that he’s a great CF like that one scouting report said, and not just solid like the others said.

Meh.

I’m not going to freak out over a 24th pick, but this is pretty uninspiring.

And I’m less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt because this seems so typically Giants. High batting average! Poor plate discipline! Good defense! Vroom! Lack of power!

It sounds like the type of hitter the Giants always seem to overvalue.

Jacoby Ellsbury. Overrated?

http://www.collegesplits.com/blog/20100518-how-few-walks-is-too.html

It was basically a throwaway.

But I’ll reserve judgment until he starts playing.

The only sentence in this post that makes a lick of sense.
(Nah, who am I kidding…)

Yes, Brown needs to re-learn his mechancs, and he doesn’t seem able to work the count and accept a walk, but there is a silver lining.

Even with his bad mechs, and obsession to swing away at anything, he only struck out 5.4% of his ABs. So, we can legitimately hold out hope that he’s Panda #2, without the power, but with a much-lower K-rate.

In other words, it’s not statistically unacceptable for a player to not take many walks when he’s making consistently outrageous contact when he does swing (only K’s 5.4% of his ABs). When your getting on base at close to 50% of the time that you hit the ball, then taking a walk is not always the better option.

One more optimistic note. If Brown is as adept at bunting for a base hit as he appears, then getting on base via the bunt can actually be seen as tantamount to working a walk.

Jeff Sackmann:
Brown’s walk rate basically means that he either (a) totally changes his approach, or (b) he would be a historically unique player if he makes the majors. I wouldn’t bet on either.

Considering how the Giants “develop” hitters, I would bet on “historically unique player” over option (a).

Sabes is fucking with the Lunatic Fringe. 3.9% BB/PA? Really?

You can’t even argue that he’s scooping up a “new market inefficiency” because he picked him 24th! No other team was going to take him.

The swing you chose a clip of was definitely ugly… and he looks like he has rickets in the batter’s box. But I saw other video clips of his swing and it looks great! I can tell he is going to hit a lot of line drives and hard ground balls with a wood bat in his hands. I think his swing looks great. Just not in that Youtube clip.

Joe DiMaggio

However, in Mr. Coffee’s case, he batted in an RBI spot. His teammate Charlie Keller was the BB machine. And, had his career not ended so early, nerds would argue was better than DiMaggio because of it.

“Money has never been the problem”

4. Hidden stars

Beyond Harper — and, to a lesser extent, Taillon and prep shortstop Manny Machado, who went to the Orioles with the No. 3 pick — this draft had a much-discussed lack of likely future stars. The one player, according to Perkin, who could wind up being the best player taken Monday night was Cal-State Fullerton outfielder Gary Brown, who was chosen by the Giants at No. 24. “They usually go for a quick-to-the-majors pitcher, like a Tim Lincecum, but I think Brown is a great pick,” says Perkin. “He has electric talent, he’s very fast, he’s an impact player and he projects to be a much better hitter than people think. I think he’ll be the one people will look at 10 years from now and ask why there were 23 players picked in front of him.”

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/ted_keith/06/07/draft.learned/index.html#ixzz0qHzKMFuV

How did Fullerton become such a baseball powerhouse? Good coach?

David Eckstein with speed and defense.

Leadoff guy, fast as hell, can steal bases but won’t come close to 10 dingers in a season ever. But that warrants a late first round pick? OY.

Good thing drafting a bust in the 1st round of MLB’s draft really doesn’t hurt the team that much, maybe a few dollars lost but that just means selling more Panda hats and Pojerseys.

Gary Brown may not have been the best first choice but he’s not bad. He would fit well in the ballpark with his hitting of gaps, speed, right handedness, etc. What I’m really tried of seeing is all this love of Cox. Those are the types of players who we should avoid. He’s a kinda big, left handed, no power (very low ISO hitting), and a relatively poor fielder. I’m serious, that guy’s a singles hitter. He was the most overrated player in the draft in my opinion. Besides, it’s the 24th pick in a not so strong draft year.