As the Cubs welcome first -ound draft pick Ed Howard to the club, the entire baseball world is fully immersed in the draft itself. And why wouldn’t they be? With little else to focus on the past several month, the arrival of real, tangible baseball news is a thrilling balm to the weary souls of baseball writers everywhere.
The draft itself has been covered elsewhere on the site, so we won’t dig too deeply into it here, but it’s worth mentioning that this new, abbreviated five-round draft leaves a lot of potential talent off the radar.