MLB Draft: Why did the SF Giants use their top draft pick on a catcher?

FILE – In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, North Carolina State’s Patrick Bailey bats during an NCAA baseball game in Raleigh, N.C. Bailey was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the baseball draft Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown, File)Two years after the San Francisco Giants made Joey Bart the heir apparent to Buster Posey, the organization made a surprising decision to spend their first round pick in the 2020 MLB Draft on another catcher.

North Carolina State product Patrick Bailey was widely expected to be a first round pick this year, but it wasn’t until the final stages of the pre-draft process when national reporters and prospect analysts began connecting him to the…