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Draft loaded with HS pitchers, college closers

By Keith Law
Scouts Inc.

Friday, May 25, 2007

If you like high-ceiling prospects, teenage players whom you can project for big-league stardom before they ever set foot in a college classroom, this is the draft for you. After several years of college-heavy first rounds -- due in no small part to "Moneyball," the worst book ever written about scouting, as well as a lot of excessively conservative draft strategies -- the pendulum has shifted back in the other direction, at least for this one year. Every draft has its strengths and weaknesses, ...

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