Following a trend from Day 1 of the Major League Baseball draft, the Mariners continued to focus on pitching on Day 2, which wrapped up Tuesday evening. The final day of the draft will have rounds 11 through 40.
With eight picks from rounds three through 10, the Mariners took six pitchers and two position players to go with the three pitchers they selected on Monday. The decision to grab pitchers wasn’t happenstance.
“Every draft takes on its own personality and this year we’ve put the priority on restocking our pitching and creating some waves of talent like we’ve done our position players the last couple of years with Latin America and our drafts, especially last year, were pretty college heavy with bats,” said Scott Hunter, the Mariners’ director of amateur scouting.