The Marlins needing to win the 2019 MLB Draft was baseball’s worst-kept secret. “Doing well” or “okay” was unacceptable. Win. It was the only option. They entered last season with a non-competitive major league roster, specifically engineered to obtain this premium draft positioning, so anything below exceptional was off the table.
Exceptional, the Marlins were.
“It’s tough to grade any draft in a complete way not knowing how the players will develop and turn out,” Baseball America draft analyst Carlos Collazo told Andre Fernandez of The Athletic (subscription required).