12:00 AM UTC Jim Callis Sam Dykstra Jonathan Mayo A Draft requires more than five years before we can make a final judgment as to how well (or poorly) picks played out. But it's already safe to say that the 2018 Draft hasn't turned out as expected to this point. The first seven picks
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Second base isn t a glamour position. It features the least exciting tools profile, and many of the top second basemen in the big leagues are refugees from other positions, often shortstop.
In the first 43 years of the Draft, just 11 second basemen were selected in the first round, and only one went in the top five picks. Yet a dozen have become first-round choices in the past 13 Drafts, including three in 2020: Nick Gonzales (Pirates), Justin Foscue (Rangers) and Nick Yorke (Red Sox).
All three of them claim spots on our updated Top 10 Second Base Prospects list, along with fellow first-rounders Nick Madrigal (White Sox, 2018) and Michael Busch (Dodgers, 2019). Xavier Edwards was a Padres supplemental first-rounder in 2018 before getting traded to the Rays, while Chase Strumpf went in the second round to the Cubs a year later. Aaron Bracho (Indians) and Ji-Hwan Bae (Pirates) were seven-figure signees from the 2017-18 international class, adding to a second ba