Work for the amateur draft takes months of field work, scouting and preparation. Now comes the last part: Getting in the room and figuring out who the Pirates will pick fourth overall when the first round happens on July 16 in Los Angeles.
That first in-person meeting to go through the board and narrow down who the pick will be will probably start Thursday, according to Ben Cherington.
“The board is ranked virtually through the course of the spring, and it goes live where we get in the room and we'll have a lot of work to do to fine-tune it,” Cherington said on the field at PNC Park Saturday.