Florida baseball to lose two signees to 2020 MLB Draft, enter 2021 utterly loaded

Bruce Thorson-USA TODAY Sports Just as Florida Gators baseball coach Kevin O’Sullivan assembling fantastic recruiting classes of talent and molding the young men comprising them into excellent players have become traditions, so, too has the raiding of Sully’s stockpile and pipeline of talent by the MLB Draft become an annual event.

And even the 2020 MLB Draft, abridged to five rounds from its usual dozens and to 160 selections from more than 1,200 a year ago by the COVID-19 pandemic (and short-sighted greed on the part of MLB teams), was poised to leave the Gators in poorer position than they where when it began.

But that event has now come and gone, its first round on Wednesday night all but…