In a recent MLB.com article, Jonathan Mayo took a look at the best draft classes for each Major League Baseball franchise. For the Colorado Rockies, he chose the 1998 draft class. With that class being the highest in terms of combined WAR (71), it makes sense. Two players comprise the bulk of that WAR, with Matt Holliday (seventh round, 44.4 career WAR) and Juan Pierre (13th round, 17.3 career WAR) turning out to be very productive players.
So if the Rockies haven’t had a draft class to match that production since 1998, is there hope in the pipeline that another class could well take over the title of “best draft class in Rockies history?