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2021 MLB Draft Prep: An NBA draft pick comparison Share this story Photo by Dick Raphael/NBAE via Getty Images Occasionally, I have a yen for college basketball from the late 1980s and before. Sometimes I run into a gem. Occasionally, favorites disappear. I’m on the hunt for more late 1970s or very early 1980s DePaul games, when Ray Meyer ran the diamond-and-one zone trap most of the time. Here’s why I bring all this up: I recently ran into an early 1980s Duke game, and remembered Gene Banks. Suddenly, my draft prep had a new spirit animal. Banks was a very good college player in an elite...

2021 MLB Draft Prep: College bullpenning And other notes from high school and college baseball draft prospects. Share this story Photo by Peter Aiken/Getty Images I was introduced to the term bullpenning by former Kane County Cougars announcer Wayne Randazzo. Now with the New York Mets broadcast team, Randazzo noted that when MLB pitchers were on Midwest League rehab stints, the presumed starter, who lost the first inning or two to the MLB arm, often performed better than expected in his new environs. Even I disagreed with the idea at first, but it now has legs into the World Series. It’s h...