The past few weeks have afforded me more time than usual to peruse video and scouting reports on a lot of players in this year‘s draft. I’ve got a pretty good sense of who’s going to be available for the Cubs when it’s their turn to pick at 16 and I’m starting to get an idea of who could be there for their next pick at 51 in the second round.
You might expect that to remain somewhat static, but things started to change quickly once MLB opened scouting back up on a limited basis. Now that teams and scouts are allowed to access video and technological data on prospects from before the shutdown, some new names have begun to populate draft boards.