Trying to predict anything about baseball prospects and the MLB Draft would be so much easier if we had the Wicked Witch of the West’s crystal ball, or a flux capacitor-driven DeLorean, or a rickety old van with a quantum tunnel. If we had any of these things, we would be able to get a glimpse into the future and learn how the players that the Yankees take in the first round of the draft will develop.
Unfortunately, none of these things actually exist outside the cinematic world, and so we are stuck with one way to get an idea of the future: by looking at what players have been selected over the last ten years at the 30th and 38th spots in the draft.