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.

1. DET – LHP Shane McClanahan, South Florida
2. SF – RHP Brady Singer, Florida
3. PHI – RHP Ethan Hankins, Forsyth Central HS
4. CHW – SS Nick Madrigal, Oregon State
5. CIN – LHP Matthew Liberatore, Mountain Ridge HS
6. NYM – OF Travis Swaggerty, South Alabama
7. SD – OF Jarred Kelenic, Waukesha West HS
8. ATL – SS Brice Turang, Santiago HS
9. OAK – RHP Casey Mize, Auburn
10. PIT – SS Nander De Sedas, Monteverde Academy
11. BAL – RHP Jackson Kowar, Florida
12. TOR – RHP Kumar Rocker, North Oconee HS
13. MIA – 3B Nolan Gorman, O’Connor HS
14. SEA – C Joey Bart, Georgia Tech
15. TEX – LHP Ryan Rolison, Ole Miss
16. TB – OF Greyson Jenista, Wichita State
17. LAA – 1B Luken Baker, Texas Christian
18. KC – 3B Alec Bohm, Wichita State
19. STL – RHP Logan Gilbert, Stetson
20. MIN – RHP Mason Denaburg, Merritt Island HS
21. MIL – RHP Carter Stewart, Eau Gallie HS
22. COL – RHP Cole Wilcox, Heritage HS
23. NYY – LHP Time Cate, Connecticut
24. CHC – 1B Triston Casas, American Heritage HS
25. AZ – OF Griffin Conine, Duke
26. BOS – LHP Konnor Pilkington, Mississippi State
27. WSH – 1B Seth Beer, Clemson
28. HOU – C Noah Naylor, St. Joan of Arc HS
29. CLE – LHP Ryan Weathers, Loretto HS
30. LAD – RHP Cole Winn, Orange Lutheran HS
31. KC – RHP Tristan Beck, Stanford
32. TB – SS Jeremy Eierman, Missouri State
33. KC – OF Trevor Larnach, Oregon State
34. CLE – RHP Mike Vasil, Boston College HS
35. PIT – C Will Banfield, Brookwood HS
36. BAL – RHP Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
37. SD – 3B Jordan Groshans, Magnolia HS
38. AZ – RHP Slade Cecconi, Trinity Prep
39. KC – LHP Luke Bartniki, Walton HS
40. CLE – OF Tristan Pompey, Kentucky
41. COL – OF Steele Walker, Oklahoma
42. STL – OF Joe Gray Jr. Hattlesburg HS

Insta-Reactions:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.