“The biggest day of the baseball calendar is today. It’s Draft day. Today and tomorrow are the two biggest days that set up all championship seasons and all great teams and great franchises.
“We start building franchises through the draft and player development and today is a big day.”
Washington Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo usually says something to the same effect every year. That quote happens to come from his draft day press conference during last year’s pandemic shortened draft which was reduced to five rounds from the usual 40.
Now, a little later in the year than it had been previously, the MLB Draft is once again upon us.