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MLB Draft 2016: Matt Silverman, 3B Josh Lowe reflect on Rays first round pick

In the MLB draft, a lot goes into making the right selection.

Drafting and developing quality major league talent has to be one of the more difficult front office tasks in all of sports, as the road to the show is seemingly omnipresent with roadblocks and detours for players.

With the great infrequency of actually hitting on major league talent in the draft, teams look to evaluate hey myriad aspects of a potential draftee to determine if he will actually succeed: recent performance, his skill set, physical makeup, and even psychological makeup.

The psychological makeup of a recently drafted player, while rarely analyzed in the online baseball community, may have played a huge roll in where he was drafted.