Podcast Poll: Who do you WANT the Red Sox to draft at #7?

1. Frazier
2. Stewart
3. Meadows
4. Shipley
5. Peterson

Quick Reasoning: This is a once in a decade chance to get a prospect with big time potential. Good college guys like Moran will always be there in the 20s-30s (ex. JBJ, Barnes, Ranaudo), but guys like Frazier and Stewart, who have superstar potential, are never on the board where we usually pick.

EDIT: I'd take Peterson over Moran.  Peterson has good power (2nd best behind Bryant), and thus projects well to 1B.  Moran's power doesn't project to 1B, and even if he can hit .300, he's a waste of a spot at 1B, where we can afford to put a masher who can't play D.

Stewart
Meadows
Frazier
Stanek
Shipley

Stewart is my clear-cut favorite.
Meadows is a slightly lower risk than Frazier for me. I dislike Frazier's hit tool enough that I put Meadows higher. I think Stanek is underrated because of an off season, so I'd take him before Shipley.

Note: I would be very unhappy with a Moran pick. I think he's the consensus "safe" pick of the position players left and will probably play a passable 3B for a little while in the majors, but his bat isn't special. He's this high because it's a weak draft class; in a good year he's a late first round talent.

1. Stewart
2. Meadows
3. Frazier
4. Ball

1) Stewart
2) Frazier
3) Shipley
4) Meadows
5) Peterson*

*For the fifth spot I'm actually torn between Peterson, Smith, and Renfroe.

1. Stewart
2. Frazier
3. Meadows
4. Shipley
5. Ball
6. McGuire
7. Renfroe

Moran comes after at least these guys for me. I'd almost rather the Sox take Bickford or another high ceiling high school arm than a guy Callis comps to Brett Wallace. I'm not interested in a first baseman who hits .280 with 15 home runs and I hope the sox aren't either. We need to swing for the fences a little more with a rare shot at a top ten pick.

Edit: who am I kidding, I want Frazier over Meadows. 

1) Stewart ( Gotta go with the high upside starting pitching prospect. Best overall value in THE most important position )
2) Frazier ( He's a competitor putting up much better numbers right now than Meadows. Huge upside potential. Bat speed is a huge tool. )
3) Shipley ( consensus pick for the next best pitching prospect ). Not a lot of wear on his arm and has a feel for pitching's all important secondary stuff )
4) Philip Ervin ( I'm not a scout but he looks like a bat would would succeed at the mlb level and he has loads of speed also. Led Cape in HR AND SB and followed up strong this year in college ). Sleeper pick who may actually end up being a mega stud. The Scotty Pippen of this year's baseball draft ).
5) Petersen ( best college bat available maybe. Good Team USA performance. )

Stewart is the easy choice to me, he has potential for four plus pitches. Frazier has great bat speed, but the more I read up on him the more I worry about the amount he is going to strike out and whether he will develop the pitch recognition.

1. Bryant ( I know it's a one in a million shot that he's still around, but I think he's the most likely to be there of the top 3)
2. Stewart ( I know it's a one in a million shot that he's still around, but I think he's the most likely of the top 5)
3. Frazier He's gonna be a star, He is elite elite bat speed. That will make the difference in any scenario in which he struggles.
4. Meadows I think he can be a very good player and will become a prototypical RF
5. Ball I think he has the atheletism that usually translates well
6. Moran guys like this sometimes surprise you and turn out to have higher ceilings then you'd think

Stewart and it's not even close for me. Sadly, Minnesota will most likely draft him at #4 so our choice will probably come down to Frazier or Meadows.

Frazier. Stewart. Meadows. Shipley.

This assumes Moran is gone by 7.

Here's hoping stupidity/signability/general GM unpredictability somehow gets one of the top 3 (Appel, Grey, Bryant) to slip to the Sox. Here' also hoping I buy the winning Powerball ticket on Weds.

My preference assuming that Bryant, Appel, and Gray are long gone before #7 is that the Sox get Kohl Stewart. A pitcher with a ceiling of #1 is a special thing, something the Sox could most definitely use. That is the most valuable commodity in baseball.

I figure if the Astros cut a deal for somebody outside of the top 3, that would probably sent Stewart to the Sox, but I doubt that's happening. And I guess the Twins will be snagging Stewart.

If that's the case, I'd be perfectly happy with Clint Frazier. I certainly like the idea of Frazier perhaps teaming up with Bogaerts one day batting 3-4 in the lineup. Of course a lot would have to happen positively for that scenario to ever unfold, but Frazier has some rare power, and apparently the right attitude to match, and the Sox are certainly light in impact power hitting OFs in the system.

If both of those guys are gone, then I'd settle on Meadows and take a more sure thing. With 25 HR power, RF defense, good plate discipline, and a good LH stick, that reminds me of the last #7 pick the Sox had in the draft 20 years ago - Trot Nixon.

If the Sox wound up with a guy like that, I'd be quite alright with it, although I do hope the Sox get even more that!

1) Kohl Stewart
2) Braden Shipley
3) Trey Ball
4) Colin Moran
5) Austin Meadows