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Day 1 of the MLB draft is done, but there are 2 days left
Tuesday’s Say Hey, Baseball looks at the first two rounds of the 2017 MLB draft, as well as what’s left.
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The first day of the 2017 MLB draft is over, and that’s great for a number of reasons. For one, there are no longer four-minute breaks in between picks, a process that causes it to take forever for you to find out who your team is selecting whether you’re going third or 30th. Speed it up already, MLB! Second, MLB is no longer counter-programming the NBA Finals or Monday Night RAW or E3 or itself — really, though, why isn’t the first day of the MLB draft a day off for every team so fans can actually have a reason to watch it?
Maybe most importantly, it means we can move on to the meat of the MLB draft. Day two involves rounds 3-10, while day three is 10-40. All of the picks made today have bonuses that will impact a team’s budget, as they only have so much money to spend on picks in the first 10 rounds, and failure to sign a player means they lose that pick’s chunk of the spending pool. The first-round picks are the ones that excite the general public, but teams need more than one major-league player or future prospect to be traded to appear out of each draft, and they’ll find many of them today.
You won’t have to wait until this evening for the draft to resume. A pre-show begins at 12:30 p.m. ET on MLB.com, and then at 1 p.m. we’ll get the Twins making their next selection.
- Here are SB Nation’s official grades for the first 30 picks in the 2017 MLB draft. It is very serious analysis that you should take very seriously, yes.
- Rain made for an odd duo of dingers from Florida’s J.J. Schwartz in the latest game of the 2017 NCAA Baseball tournament, which took two days to complete.
- That’s not the only Florida news of the day, as this Gator dropped a thunderous F-bomb when he found out about yet another rain delay.
- After those 24 hours of rain delays, though, Florida eventually advanced to the College World Series.
- If you’re looking for where the entire first round of picks landed, we’ve got a tracker for you.
- Royce Lewis went first overall to the Twins, as they skipped the consensus No. 1 in Hunter Green but ended up with a serious shortstop prospect, anyway.
- One player who was not drafted was Luke Heimlich, as it was discovered last week that he is a registered sex offender who plead guilty to molesting a 6-year-old family member.
- MLB turns a blind eye towards an alarming number of criminal offenses and behaviors, but multiple teams have outright removed Heimlich from their boards, so maybe they’ve finally found a line they won’t cross for the sake of winning. We have two more days to get through before we know if that’s true.
- We need something lighthearted after all that, so here’s a look at “The Freeze” and why he keeps winning races at Braves’ games.
- Marlins Man invaded Game 5 of the NBA Finals, but at least Zack Hample kept his distance.
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