DENVER -- Garrett Crochet is the exception, not the rule.
The 11th overall pick in 2020, Crochet went from the Draft to the White Sox alternate training site to the big leagues last summer. He became the first player to make his pro debut in the Majors since the Reds' Mike Leake in 2010 and the first to appear at that level in his Draft year since the Royals' Brandon Finnegan in 2014.
In the past 10 Drafts, the Dodgers' Paco Rodriguez (2012), Finnegan and Crochet are the only players to reach the big leagues in the same year they were selected. It's unlikely that any of this year's draftees will advance that quickly, but whoever gets to the Majors first probably will be a pitcher. That's been the case in nine of the previous 10 Drafts, with the Cubs' Nico Hoerner (2018 first-rounder, 2019 debut) the only position player to buck that trend.