New Mock Draft and Brooks Lee Doesn’t Go to the Pirates

MLB Pipeline released their latest weekly mock draft, this time going with selections made by Jonathan Mayo. For the first time in a long time, the Pittsburgh Pirates aren’t taking Cal Poly shortstop Brooks Lee with the fourth overall pick. Mayo doesn’t have the Pirates passing on him though, he actually goes first overall in the draft to the Baltimore Orioles.

After Lee, Mayo has three high school bats off the board in a row. He has Druw Jones going second overall to the Arizona Diamondbacks, Jackson Holliday goes third to the Texas Rangers, and then the Pirates select second baseman Termarr Johnson with the fourth pick. It’s not a new name for the Pirates overall, but it feels like it has…