Get ’Em Young, Get ’Em Throwing: How Two Recent MLB Draft Trends Can Help Us...
Monday, June 8, marks the beginning of the 2015 MLB amateur draft, the sports draft of choice for fans of delayed gratification. Although baseball’s annual meat market has become more popular since the...
View ArticleYour 2015 MLB Draft Prospect Primer: 12 Players You Need to Know
The 2015 MLB draft, which begins on Monday, isn’t going to be one of those legendary classes that produces four Hall of Famers and 25 All-Stars. This is shaping up to be a weird draft for a couple of...
View ArticleYour 2015 MLB Draft Prep Kit: Spending Strategy, Potential Domino Picks,...
The 2015 MLB draft begins today. Allow us to help you prepare accordingly with some help from the Socratic method. So what’s up with the draft? That’s a big question. We could start with how it’s a way...
View ArticleWho’s That Guy? No. 1 Overall MLB Draft Pick Dansby Swanson!
Who’s That Guy is an ongoing Grantland series and an orientation tool to use in the vast sports landscape. And, hey, baseball is part of that landscape! Who is he? Vanderbilt shortstop Dansby Swanson,...
View ArticleMLB Draft Room Power Rankings: Magnets, Man Buns, and More
Last night in Secaucus, MLB teams selected 75 players in the first two rounds of the amateur draft, starting with Vanderbilt shortstop Dansby Swanson (Diamondbacks) and ending with Texas A&M Tommy...
View ArticleSlot This: Examining Two Puzzlers Following an Otherwise Unsurprising MLB...
MLB’s draft signing deadline came and went Friday, bringing to an end one of the most wonderful and confusing periods on the baseball calendar. Of the 36 players drafted in the first round, 35 signed,...
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