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MLB Draft 2016: Blue Jays select J.B. Woodman in the 2nd round

It didn't always look like J.B. Woodman would live up to the high billing that accompanied him to Oxford as an elite recruit in 2013. The tools were always obvious -- a smooth, powerful swing, a cannon of a right arm, the speed and fluidity in the outfield -- but they came in flashes, spaced just far enough apart to simultaneously engender optimism and frustration.

It finally all came together for Woodman as a junior, and he's a second-round pick in the MLB Draft because of it. Woodman, who was named a second-team All-American earlier this week, was snached up on Thursday night by the Toronto Blue Jays with the No.