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Priester, Jameson highlight names to watch on Draft’s opening night

The 2019 draft is less than a week away, and with three picks on day one, the Dodgers’ incoming class will largely be evaluated on the two players taken in round one and the player with their selection at the end of Compensation B round.

The draft class is stacked heavily at the top, and with near consensus on the top prospects in most media lists, it would be a surprise to see anyone from my first three tiers (grades, 80, 70, and 65) slip past the first fifteen picks. After the first half of round one, the players tend to fall more in line with a team’s traditional scouting preferences, with the depth of the later day one picks coming from the college and prep hitting ranks.