Alec Bohm is a trade target to watch for the Mariners

Bohm go boomKeeping track of the prospects in each year’s MLB Draft is a difficult task, one that often requires me to use mnemonic devices to remember who’s who. I remember 2018’s Alec Bohm, product of Wichita State, because the Wichita State mascot is the Shockers, and Alec Bohm has what can only be described as a shock of blonde hair, the same lustrous golden as the fields of wheat in his home state of Oklahoma. Bohm went third overall that year to Philadelphia, way before the Mariners picked at 11 (hello Logan Gilbert, who has quite the mane of his own), but popped up on my radar again at the 2019 Arizona Fall League. Bohm was so clearly the best player on not just his team, but in the league. He stood out at the plate, certainly, with one of the most advanced bats in the league despite only having a year and a half of professional baseball under his belt, but I was also impressed by his defense at third, something I’d heard was the big knock on him. Yet in my looks, Bohm was as relaxed and athletic at the hot corner as he was at the dish, a team leader on the field and in the dugout; he looked every bit a star in the making.

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