After getting through the first five rounds, draft boards start to become pretty useless. Teams draft for raw skills that fit their development strengths if they’re smart, sometimes they’re taking an org guy to save money. Strategies start to play out to their fruition, whereas in the early rounds teams are juggling known quantities and trying the land the best handful of players possible in the early rounds.
That means there aren’t many surprises, because it’s pretty much impossible to know what to expect going in. Some of these players are well known quantities, others are obscure. And often, it’s the more obscure selections found in out of the way schools or parts of the country in terms of baseball that prove the most intriguing and offer the most upside.