Wednesday night I got the opportunity to catch with MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis to discuss the current draft, draft history, and the CWS.
On the Draft date coming after the College World Series:
“I don’t think it’s going to affect too much one way or the other. The good thing, and it rarely happened, but a team won’t draft a guy, and he ends up getting hurt. Teams have seen Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter sixteen times each. Watching them one or two times each isn’t going to swing the needle too much.”
Comparing Jordan Lawler to Bobby Witt:
“Witt has louder tools, he has more power, he’s more advanced because he grew up in the game as Bobby Witt’s son and got exposed to so much.