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Best names of the 2020 amateur draft

I think we can all agree that Spencer Torkelson is a great baseball name.

It’s not Brock Deatherage level good, but it’s solid, and it was just the first among many tremendous names that came out of the 2020 amateur draft. This year, the draft was reduced to only five rounds over two days, giving us far fewer names to parse through, but we still found some real gems in the mix.

A lot of trends were common this year, so we’re going to break the list into four parts: Awesome Alliteratives, Sounds Like a Baseball Player, Cool Names, and How do You Spell That?