Day 19- 2008 Round 4

1 Modesto Nuts Ryan Kalish (OF BOS)
2 RIC Anchormen Brandon Jones (OF ATL)
3 Blind Dogs Michael Bourn (OF HOU)
4 Blind Dogs Matt Latos (SP SD)
5 Rhody Rampage Kosuke Fukudome (OF CHC)
6 Rhode Island Quahogs Julio Teheran (SP ATL)
7 Blind Dogs Wendell Fairley (OF SF)
8 Blind Dogs Oscar Tejada (SS BOS)
9 Bad Ass Bombers Kevin Ahrens (3B TOR)
10 South Kingstown Smoke Monsters Jason Pridie (OF MIN)
11 Rhode Island Quahogs Neftali Feliz (SP TEX)
12 The Brew Crew Nick Weglarz (OF CLE)

By Pat Henderson

Best Pick- Neftali Feliz- The Quahogs scooped up Feliz at the end of the 4th round and a little over a year later he was doing his best Pedro Martinez impression in the pen for the Rangers. The Hogs stupidly traded him away right before he hit the bigs in a package that centered around Mark Buehrle, ouch, and TomTom has reaped the benefits. Feliz is now regarded as the top pitching prospect in baseball and a top 5 overall prospect by many publications, not bad for the 47th pick in 2008

Worst Pick- Jason Pridie- If someone told you the day before the draft that Jason Pridie would be a name that you’d never forget you woulda said who the hell is that? That’s what the league collectively said when Conor spent his lone 2008 draft pick on Pridie an OF with no substantial skills from the twins farm system. What hurts more? He was taken 1 pick ahead of the aforementioned Feliz.

Still Could Make it- Matt Latos- Still could make it is a bad title for Latos, he’s more of on his way. He came up last year and put together a very impressive start to his rookie year before tailing off and ending up with an ERA of 4.66 and a 1.31 WHIP. At 22 Latos has the stuff and pitches in the right park to be a valuable fantasy starter.

% in MLB- 4 out of 12= 33%