Drake, Patrick, and I decided to split up teams and have ourselves a mock draft. I took the teams from the two East divisions, Drake took the Central, and Patrick the West. Here are the results of our mock draft and some quick analysis on the picks. The three of us are going to write up our picks individually next week.
- DET – LHP Shane McClanahan, South Florida
- SF – RHP Brady Singer, Florida
- PHI – RHP Ethan Hankins, Forsyth Central HS
- CHW – SS Nick Madrigal, Oregon State
- CIN – LHP Matthew Liberatore, Mountain Ridge HS
- NYM – OF Travis Swaggerty, South Alabama
- SD – OF Jarred Kelenic, Waukesha West HS
- ATL – SS Brice Turang, Santiago HS
- OAK – RHP Casey Mize, Auburn
- PIT – SS Nander De Sedas, Monteverde Academy
- BAL – RHP Jackson Kowar, Florida
- TOR – RHP Kumar Rocker, North Oconee HS
- MIA – 3B Nolan Gorman, O’Connor HS
- SEA – C Joey Bart, Georgia Tech
- TEX – LHP Ryan Rolison, Ole Miss
- TB – OF Greyson Jenista, Wichita State
- LAA – 1B Luken Baker, Texas Christian
- KC – 3B Alec Bohm, Wichita State
- STL – RHP Logan Gilbert, Stetson
- MIN – RHP Mason Denaburg, Merritt Island HS
- MIL – RHP Carter Stewart, Eau Gallie HS
- COL – RHP Cole Wilcox, Heritage HS
- NYY – LHP Time Cate, Connecticut
- CHC – 1B Triston Casas, American Heritage HS
- AZ – OF Griffin Conine, Duke
- BOS – LHP Konnor Pilkington, Mississippi State
- WSH – 1B Seth Beer, Clemson
- HOU – C Noah Naylor, St. Joan of Arc HS
- CLE – LHP Ryan Weathers, Loretto HS
- LAD – RHP Cole Winn, Orange Lutheran HS
- KC – RHP Tristan Beck, Stanford
- TB – SS Jeremy Eierman, Missouri State
- KC – OF Trevor Larnach, Oregon State
- CLE – RHP Mike Vasil, Boston College HS
- PIT – C Will Banfield, Brookwood HS
- BAL – RHP Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
- SD – 3B Jordan Groshans, Magnolia HS
- AZ – RHP Slade Cecconi, Trinity Prep
- KC – LHP Luke Bartniki, Walton HS
- CLE – OF Tristan Pompey, Kentucky
- COL – OF Steele Walker, Oklahoma
- STL – OF Joe Gray Jr. Hattlesburg HS
Insta-Reactions:
- This class is absolutely loaded with pitching. McClanahan, Rocker, Cate, Singer, Hankins, Mize, Kowar, Hjelle, are all guys I would loooooove to see in KC. And there is a chance that none of them will be available at 18.
- Three local kids were selected in the top 32. OF Greyson Jenista and 3B Alec Bohm from Wichita State, and SS Jeremy Eierman from Missouri State.
- I’m not sure how, but I managed to land Kumar Rocker at 12 to add to a loaded Toronto system, and Brice Turang at 8 for an even more loaded Braves system. I was really happy with the value I got for both of those picks.
- Drake selected Alec Bohm, RHP Tristan Beck, OF Trevor Larnach, and RHP Luke Bartniki for the Royals. You’ll want to read about them in Drake’s analysis of each player next week.
- I would consider a lot of the players taken after the Royals first pick at 18 to be better prospects than some of KC’s options at 14 last year. This draft is incredibly deep, and I think the Royals picked a great year to have 4 of the first 39 picks.
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