The reason that there’s no hoopla surrounding the MLB draft the way that there is with its NFL and NBA counterparts is that it can take years to get even the smallest sense of how it went, and the better part of a decade before you can say for sure.
Players drafted in 2015 have been starting to crack rosters across the MLB over the last couple seasons, and last year the draft produced its first All-Star in Houston’s Alex Bregman.
The 2015 draft has the distinction of being Jeff Bridich’s first as GM of the Rockies, and we’re just now getting to the point where we can take stock of how it went.