The build-up to this week for Kale Emshoff has been long and, admittedly, boring. The same can be said for pretty much any other prospect hoping to have his name called in the Major League Baseball Draft.
Emshoff, a redshirt junior catcher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, began this season on a tear at the plate after Tommy John surgery forced him to miss all of 2019. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, for the past two-and-a-half months, all of that has gone to waste.
Emshoff has been back in his hometown of Robstown, Texas, with his family -- still training, but mostly doing a lot of waiting.