The 2021 MLB Draft may have the best prep shortstop class baseball has seen in an entire decade. Not since 2011 have two prep shortstops been selected top 10. Hell, baseball hasn’t seen two prep shortstops selected in the top 15 of any draft during that period.
Talent up the middle of the diamond, specifically catcher, shortstop and centerfield, generally speak toward the health of a draft class. 2011 was a special year for high school talent at the 6 hole. Top ten selections Francisco Lindor (no. 8) and Javier Baez (no.