Usually at the time of college tournament play, teams have narrowed their focus in the first round of the Draft. But with the event moved to July for the first time this year, the number of players in the top tier of talent is still expanding.
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We just released our new Top 200 Draft prospects list, which not only adds 50 names to our previous list, but shuffles things at the top of it. Some of those changes are reflected in our latest projection of the first round below.
There’s still a very long way to go, with the Draft in July and a lot of baseball, especially collegiately, left to play. This is a typical occurrence, but even more so this year when reaching out to scouts about this mock, I’m getting more responses of “This is going to be a wild year.” So stay tuned as we start turning up the mock heat over the final seven weeks before the Draft arrives.
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In previous years, we'd be roughly a month away from the Draft at this point and the picture would be coming into clearer focus. But with the event pushed back to July 11 and teams having less history than ever on college players because of the pandemic, it's still very
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The 2021 MLB Draft is still 11 weeks away, and there’s a tremendous amount still unknown and to be decided in terms of who goes where in the first round. But that won’t stop us from trying to guess.
“Guess” might be the operative word in this first mock draft of the season. Jim Callis and I will alternate in trying to bring you the best projections we can, with the hope that the ones we post right before the July 11 Draft come as close to getting it right as we can.
For this first go-round, I tried to run names by as many teams and scouting director types as possible. The main objective: to have names in each spot that make some sense and are feasible, so I kept permutations for each team to a minimum (There are simply too many at this point.). Consider this a snapshot of names that could land in the first round, with the plan to bring that picture into greater focus as we get closer to the Draft.