It's draft day in baseball, so now's the time to spend a moment thinking about Tim Beckham and Buster Posey.
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Okay, moment over. We can be done with that now, right?
Nope. Shucks.
In the Tampa Bay Times, Marc Topkin went down the list of all of the Rays' recent first round picks, and who they could have picked in a perfect world. That's not a fair way to judge teams' drafting ability--everybody misses much of the time--but no, the recent run of first round picks hasn't been great.
As Topkin also noted in the Times a few days ago that this will be the first draft under Rob Metzler, their new director of amateur scouting.