The LA Angels were no exception to this as general manager Billy Eppler and Matt Swanson, the director of amateur scouting were picking and choosing fresh blood to replenish a perpetually hungry farm system that chews through prospects like Bartolo Colon through a post-game spread.
Eppler took over a farm system that, just two years ago, was ranked as the worst in baseball. Two short years later, the Angels came into the 2018 season with two recent draft picks in the Baseball America Top 100: last season’s #1 pick, outfielder Jo Adell, and Jahmai Jones, the second pick of the 2015 draft.