2018: the year everyone drafted wrong

[u/Bermut-Nundaloy]

None of the 10 best players in the 2018 draft were actually picked in the top 10. In fact, only 3 of them went in the first 2 rounds. Here's what a redraft would look like, if everyone actually drafted correctly. Pretty wild to imagine this alternate MLB.

Other notable players in the draft: Shane McClanahan, Drew Rasmussen, Kris Bubic, Lawrence Butler, Brice Turang. Bohm, India, and Mize weren't terrible picks. How would you redraft 2018?

[u/Tsaxen]

Yeah honestly, like Alec Bohm and Johnathan India are absolutely huge wins, and frankly there's a decent chance that Casey Mize ends up being a big win too.

That being said, Skubal going at 255 absolutely has to make every team in baseball feel real dumb

[u/kodiaksr7 → u/Tsaxen]

Pujols was drafted 402nd. lol. 

[u/ditchboyus → u/kodiaksr7]

From what I understand, the only reason the Cardinals took Pujols at all was that their local area scout raved about him, but nobody in the front office was impressed. By the time they got to pick 402 it was basically "well, there's nobody decent left so we might as well just take this guy our area scout keeps talking about, even though he won't amount to anything. "

[u/MeynellR → u/ditchboyus]

That's not the worst reasoning behind someone being drafted. Mike Piazza was drafted 1390th in the 62nd round after his dad asked Tommy Lasorda to draft him as a favour.

[u/milkshakemountebank → u/MeynellR]

Lasorda was the other Puazza kid's godfather! It was so funny