On Baseball America’s draft board, we have employed BA Grades for the top 200 players to try to contextualize the draft talent beyond what ordinal rankings allow. That, combined with the lack of a typical healthy college pitching pecking order in the first round has thrown the draft wide open, with teams bearing down on large groups of players and plenty of uncertainty about who will be available when. There’s not a lot of separation with players in the middle of the first round, going down through the second round of this draft.
The names up top who seem unlikely to fall outside of the top 10 picks are the top eight players on the BA 500: OF Druw Jones, SS Brooks Lee, SS Jackson Holliday, SS Termarr Johnson, OF Elijah Green, C Kevin Parada, 3B Cam Collier and 3B/1B Jacob Berry. It seems like there are eight players most teams feel confident will come off the board early, before the draft descends into utter chaos in the middle of the first round. That hasn’t quite been the case this week, as there is plenty of buzz going around the industry-though sorting out the smoke from the fire is a challenge in its own right. The last few years it has gotten incredibly quiet leading up to the draft as teams huddle in draft rooms, attempt to finalize their draft boards and figure out signability. With the draft starting on Sunday, this will serve as Baseball America’s final mock draft-though we will add more information to capsules and tweak names as we gather information. Unlike our last mock draft, which was released during a relatively quiet week for industry chatter, there has been plenty of draft chatter and rumor mongering that is reflected in V 6.0 today.
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