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July 15th, 2021 Share share-square-941426 Let’s say this straight from the outset -- Draft evaluation takes years. More than any other sport with a Draft, baseball requires years of development and positives and negatives can come on the roads between making a pick and the end of a Major League career. That doesn’t completely rule out immediate evaluation, however. As evidenced by MLB Pipeline’s Top 250 Draft prospects, we still have a pretty good idea of who the top talents were heading into this Draft, and that leads to certain picks looking better than others right away. With that in...

share-square-854313 The Pirates not only had the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 Draft but also the largest bonus pool at $14,394,000. They took full advantage of both. Pittsburgh spent the top choice on Louisville catcher Henry Davis, hands down the best college position player available. While Davis is undeniably talented, he also had a chance to fall out of the first six selections, so the Pirates will sign him for significantly less than the assigned pick value of $8,415,300. That gave them extra cash to lavish on other players. When the second day of the Draft began, there was talk that P...

share-square-867636 The College World Series is in full swing and teams are scouting those games more than ever now that the Draft has been moved to July. It's difficult to move the needle much this late in the calendar, but there have been several pitching performances of note. Jack Leiter reinforced his status as the best college arm available by striking out 15 in eight innings in a 1-0 loss to North Carolina State, but fellow Vanderbilt right-hander Kumar Rocker created some uncertainty by topping out at 94 mph and getting just three swings and misses with his fastball in the Commodores' ...

If the Draft hadn't moved to July 11-13, it would have concluded Wednesday with rounds 11 through 20. Instead of the certainty of knowing which teams selected which players, there's still a lot of uncertainty about what will transpire a month from now. Teams haven't held meetings to set their

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. Both North Carolina high