ANAHEIM -- It was right around the time the Angels selected their third amateur player, at 10:49 a.m. PT on Friday, Day 2 of the 2016 Draft, that change began to seem evident.
The Angels are taking chances again.
Their Drafts the previous four years were made up mostly of seasoned collegiate players, those with potential to quickly matriculate through the farm system but didn't necessarily boast the raw tools that would make them impact players. It was a strategy under former general manager Jerry Dipoto, who wanted to maximize the number of prospects who reached the upper levels of a thin farm system that could ill-afford complete flops in the Draft.