On Sunday The Red Sox Might Draft The Final Piece of Something Special.
Sunday’s first round pick could be the exclamation point on what’s turning out to be a series of strong Sox drafts.
The MLB draft is this Sunday evening and the Red Sox have the twelfth overall pick. This selection falls in that awkward sweet spot where there’s big value to be had here if they get it right, but it’s also still low enough that it’s virtually impossible to predict who they’re going to get, or if they’ll be any good.
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Case in point: the Red Sox used the same 12th overall pick in 1994 to draft Nomar Garciaparra. However, the most recent time they picked there in 2016, they got a guy who never even made it to the Major Leagues (more on him in a moment). This stuff is about as unpredictable as the lottery numbers.
Jonathan Mayo of MLB pipeline did a mock draft of the entire league’s first round last week and has the Sox selecting Christian Moore, a second baseman out of Tennessee, but everything about the draft is highly unpredictable. Add in the fact that the Major League team is playing some of their most compelling baseball in years, and this potentially juicy addition to the franchise is a story that will ride mostly under the radar.
However, it’s also part of a larger ongoing story that’s already starting to unfold. In other words, what’s coming next might get even more interesting when you look back at it through the lens of what’s already happened, and how it all fits together. So with Sunday’s selection being the sixth first round pick coming as the byproduct of a last place finish in the last twelve years, this is actually a good time to look back at the process and where it’s evolving.
