A brief history of the Red Sox draft selections

Scott HattebergThe draft is quickly approaching with the first two rounds set to take place a week from Memorial Day. We already spent the past week looking back at some previous Dave Dombrowski-led drafts to see if we could find any trends, and in the coming week we’ll take a look at who the team could be targeting in 2019. In the meantime, I thought it would be fun today to look at where the Red Sox are picking in the first five rounds of this draft to see if any big-time talent has been picked by them or anyone else in these slots before. This is not meant to be predictive or anything, as the context around different drafts and different rules in different eras mean teams have different approaches at the same spot in different years. This is more for a fun look back.

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