The 2023 MLB draft begins tonight and I’m more excited the draft this year than I have been in years past for a couple of reasons. The first is that I’ve watched a lot more college baseball this year than I have in the past, which I don’t know if you can relate to. But the second is because the St. Louis Cardinals aren’t playing great so it’s a lot more fun right now to look at prospects. That, I’m sure, you can relate to at least a little bit.
So with the draft approaching and mock drafts dropping like crazy, I thought it would be fun and helpful to look at prior draft trends under Randy Flores, who ran his first draft in 2016, to see if we can glean any information to help us know what to expect over the past three days.