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2021 Draft Preview No. 13: The State of Things, Final Thoughts, and Options

Good morning, all. Draft day is here at last, after a much, much more interminable wait this year than in the past. Between last year’s disrupted, half-assed draft and this year’s half-assed minor leagues and endless waiting for the MLB draft, it has not been a fun couple years for following the younger side of baseball. At least this year it will be something close to a real draft, with 20 rounds of selections (although, to be fair, it currently looks as if the Cardinals in 2020 may have pulled off a seemingly impossible coup with their five-round masterpiece), rather than me having to use the word ‘truncated’ over and over when writing about it.