The lockout may be wearing on in Major League Baseball, but minor league and amateur baseball continues apace. The lean winter months are when we at LL traditionally start preparing for the next year’s draft, and this year that tradition will be especially spirit-fueling as things remain quiet on the MLB front.
As a reminder, the Mariners this year will pick 21st in the Draft, right behind the World Series Champion Atlanta Braves. That’s a fun and not at all infuriating sentence to type. MLB Pipeline just dropped their Top 100 Draft Prospects list, so we’ll be starting out this year’s series by looking at who might be available around when the Mariners are slated to pick, while understanding these lists will vary wildly between now and draft day.