On Sunday the Dodgers selected left-hander Maddux Bruns in the first round of the 2021 First-Year Player Draft with the 29th overall pick. His selection came as a bit of a surprise to the average fan as he was not connected to the Dodgers in any mock draft, at least that I had seen.
Certainly part of the surprise was that he was not included in mock drafts but also that his ranking was not even close to No. 29. Those rankings included,
MLB 49
BA 48
FanGraphs 52
ESPN 87
During his senior year at UMS Wright Preparatory School in Mobile, Alabama, Bruns went 7-0 with a 0.