Mock draft: College position players dominate Top 10
Just a few years ago, the scouting industry and, as a result, those of us who cover the Draft, would just about be in “Go” mode. The recently completed conference tournaments used to be the last looks decision-makers would get at the college crop in a class. Perhaps area scouts would hit the Regionals, set to begin this weekend, but scouting directors and GMs wouldn’t get to those because the June Draft typically started right at the end of that first round of postseason play.
When the event was moved to July and the All-Star break, we all had to learn to shift our internal Draft clocks. Teams can, and will, scout Regionals, Super Regionals, even the College World Series, fairly heavily. Plus there’s the mid-June Draft Combine as well.
I bring all this up, more than six weeks before the Draft actually begins, to make it clear just how much longer we have to go here and how much still can change. Teams have yet to zero in on things like medical reports and signability, so this new mock still has a good amount of conjecture involved, albeit with a new Draft Top 200 list and an executive survey that do provide some insights.
