If you look at John Patterson’s page on baseball reference, you’d think something isn’t right. Here is a player that was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1996 MLB amateur draft, at pick number 5, but he was never in the Expos’ minor league system, although he would eventually end up in the franchise later on in his career, as a Washington National.
It looked like I was either going to be the first overall pick with Pittsburgh or the sixth overall pick of the Detroit Tigers. We really hadn’t heard much from Montreal.