While the Major League Baseball season is currently on hiatus, the 2020 MLB Draft will still begin on Wednesday.
This year’s draft will consist of only five rounds, as opposed to the usual 40 rounds that teams participate in. The Philadelphia Phillies will be selecting with the 15th pick in each of those rounds except for the second, as the team forfeited its second-round pick when it signed Zack Wheeler this past offseason.
The Phillies will have a few options that they can go with at No. 15 overall, depending on which players fall to them. Let’s take a look at some potential players that they could select in the first round of the 2020 MLB Draft:
Garrett Crochet: LHP, University of Tennessee
Crochet is an extremely hard-throwing college lefty that the Phillies could potentially select in the first round.