Poll: Do you think the MLB draft is a crap shoot?
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:01 pm
1B2925253103202924212E29480 wrote: draft picks have value. The draft is supposed to help level the playing field for teams in signing amateur players in the US and Puerto Rico.
The first pick in the first round has more value than the 20th pick (heck it has more value than the second pick in the first round). Just because signing amateur players is an inexact science doesn't mean it is the same as gambling.
The history of the draft shows more early round picks have successful careers than those taken in later rounds.
Absolutely.
But it is not as exact results as other sports.
no doubt. It goes to show how hard hitting and pitching a baseball is.
The first pick in the first round has more value than the 20th pick (heck it has more value than the second pick in the first round). Just because signing amateur players is an inexact science doesn't mean it is the same as gambling.
The history of the draft shows more early round picks have successful careers than those taken in later rounds.
Absolutely.
But it is not as exact results as other sports.
no doubt. It goes to show how hard hitting and pitching a baseball is.