A draft is an exercise is how to look ahead. But given the current state of just about everything in baseball, you’d be forgiven for a desire to look elsewhere. (Which way is ahead here, exactly?) So let’s look back instead. The 2010 MLB draft was one of baseball’s best, hyped at the time with the twin talents of Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, and since rounded out with a slew of top talents and All-Stars. On its 10th anniversary, here’s a redraft of the first half of the first round:
1. Washington Nationals
Actual Pick: Bryce Harper
Redraft Pick: Chris Sale (Actual: #13, Chicago White Sox)
Sure, this was just about universally known as the Harper-Machado Draft.