Source: chicago.cbslocal.com --- Friday, June 10, 2016
By Tim Baffoe– (CBS) It doesn’t have the rabid, almost sad addiction properties of the NFL Draft. There isn’t much kitsch appeal of outlandish suits on giant young men and unpronounceable names of European spectres we won’t see for who knows how many years if at all a la the NBA Draft. But kudos to Major League Baseball in its stubborn way in recent years of tapping years too late into the lush market of sports fans and analysts who take very seriously the assessing of young people who have never competed on the level they’ve just been purchased into. Sports drafts are fun in that wild, speculative, illogical feeding-off-emotions way that makes sports in general simultaneously great and awful. I get lost in it, for sure, and spend 10 minutes thinking really hard about a sixth-round defensive back’s YouTube highlights as Pro Bowl résumé before forgetting his name until training camp. Letter grades, draft-day winners and losers, sure things, can’t-misses, high ceilings, cornerstones, impact rookies, projects and other buzzwords that are really messed up when you think about them — it’s all part of the experience. But at the end of each draft, none of us knows anything. That especially goes for the wildest of wild card sports in baseball. Football and basketball may etch the names of first-round busts into our trivia memories, but that’s because they at least get the chance on the top level. Baseball’s draft history is packed with g ...
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