Yankees Take “Risky” First Round Pick
Baseball June 10th. 2009, 4:45pm
The Yankees took 18-year-old outfielder Slade Heathcott with the 29th overall pick in the first round of the MLB draft. Baseball America rated him as the 11th best Center Fielder and a second-round talent. Heathcott already seems to be a reach, and that is assuming he is healthy.
Here is a tidbit from Brian Costello of the New York Post.
He had surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee last November and spent most of this spring as a DH. Heathcott could wind up being a pitcher, but has not been on the mound this spring because of a shoulder injury.
Serious knee and shoulder problems before he leaves high school? I see no scenario where this pick is not an unbridled success.
But, his name is Slade, so he already exudes awesome.
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June 10th, 2009 at 4:48 PM
How about your next post just be “I hate the Yankees” and then just video of you crashing your jeep with the Youk image on the spare tire?
June 10th, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I know diehard baseball fans that don’t even care about the draft. This deserves zero coverage.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:50 PM
where’s the “nyah nyah n-nyah nyah,” tag?
June 10th, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Was sent this article by one of the two Yankee fans who write for this website
June 10th, 2009 at 4:53 PM
guys with the name “slade” are always going to be douchebags.
/book of scientific facts
June 10th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
well, it can’t be CRM then…baseball doesn’t have enough half naked dudes rolling around on the carpet for him to have an invested interest.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
/does math
I’m not a Yankees fan.
/thinks
So, TBL or Hernia. My bet is on TBL Godfather himself.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:57 PM
I can’t decide which is better, his “even I don’t get it” expression, or the Aflac duck.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Even the guy who designed the ‘79 Phillies jerseys think that jersey is fugly.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2736/568/1600/nl_1979_philadelphia.jpg
June 10th, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Also, he looks like a racist.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:00 PM
I know diehard baseball fans that don’t even care about the draft. This deserves zero coverage.
Yeah, I love baseball, but I have no interest in the fundamental building blocks of my team.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:01 PM
The MLB draft is becoming more and more useless every year. With the growing numbers of players from around the world, especially Latin America, American players decline in value. What would be more beneficial for the Nats: paying Strasburg $40-50 million or taking that money and investing it in the Dominican Republic? If invested in the DR, you would probably get at least 3 to 5 MLB players.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Whatever nay sayers, that picture is going to rank right up there with Shirtles Combine Brady in five years when Slade takes New York by storm.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:02 PM
awesome
June 10th, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Ed Norton thinks this guy needs to tone down his look.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:04 PM
True, Brady was Andy Dufresne that day.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:04 PM
First off Strasburg is not getting more than $30 million, and probably 5-10 million less than that. Second, the Nationals already invested in the Dominican Republic. That’s why Jim Bowden is riding his Segway to jail.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Agreed. Pretty sure the Nationals are going to stay out of the DR for quite a while. With the steroid revelations, we are also starting to see why the Dominican, of all the Caribbean islands, is producing so much “baseball talent” per capita.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:08 PM
So I was reading sports at another site – and I found this very nice quote from Dan LeBatard about the Shaq / Stan Van Gundy controversy…
Says LeBatard – On Shaq: “(He) stabbed Stan Van Gundy in the back… He wanted Stan Van Gundy to stop making him work harder.”
That certainly seems in the neighborhood of accurate.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Uhhh…did you watch the WBC? We already saw what happens when an entire island nation stops injecting stuff into their asses.
/except Fire Island…I’m pretty sure they’re injecting all sorts of things in each other’s asses there.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:10 PM
+1 Fire Island reference
June 10th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
i liked him the best as Tiny in Best of the Best 3: No turning back
June 10th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Does it bring up fond memories of latex, x, and mesh?
/NTTATWWT
June 10th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
I guess he’s not going to LSU next year. Some people had him projected for their rotation.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Keith Law in his chat today on this guy when asked about what his issues are:
“It’s not really him, it’s his parents. His father is in jail on drug charges and his mother is out of the picture as well, so the unstable home situation is a concern to some teams/scouts. I don’t think corruption of blood is a good scouting philosophy, personally.”
June 10th, 2009 at 5:20 PM
That’s racist
June 10th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
It brings me back to the Sam Champion and Mike Piazza cottage rumors.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Shit, we’re stuck in one of those paradox loops again.
/because you’re so racist
June 10th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Who cares about the Yankees draft? If he doesn’t work out they’ll just buy another player. Just like the last, well pretty much since they bought Babe Ruth. It’s what the Yankees do, because they are the richest and most successful franchise in baseball.
Two years ago they drafted Andrew Brackman, who had a blown elbow for crying out loud.
June 10th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
No. What is more likely to happen is that some New York “journalist” who has been bought and paid for by the team will write some bogus articles about how people think he’s the next coming of Mike Mussina or Andy Petitte. Then some team will be suckered into trading their star player whose contract is expiring for him and two other guys just like him.
/truth’d