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Dodgers have a complicated history with the 2nd round of the draft

The MLB Draft was 18 days ago, and the Dodgers added a healthy group of prospects to its stable. In the Andrew Friedman, Farhan Zaidi and Billy Gasparino era, the Dodgers have added some quality prospects, none more quality than Walker Buehler.

In the second round of the 2015 draft, though, the Dodgers selected prep outfielder Mitchell Hansen and signed him for almost $1 million. Yesterday, the Dodgers released him. He had the physicality to be a power-hitting corner outfielder, but he could never figure out A-ball pitching. He did well enough in the Pioneer League with Ogden (.