2013 might seem like a weird year to review, but it was our first year doing previews and we did previews of the first 2 picks. I also did my own shadow draft through 5 rounds (I did them a few years prior to this too, but those are lost to an old computer). So, here I’ll look at the Phillies pick, who I chose and who I had ranked in the next few spots on my list.
Round 1
J.P. Crawford, SS High School
The 2013 draft had a few very clear groupings of talent: The top 2 were widely expected to be Stanford Righty Mark Appel and slugger Kris Bryant; the next group was very high ceiling low floor types in Clint Frazier, Austin Meadows, Jon Gray, Kohl Stewart and Trey Ball, then a group of Colin Moran, Phil Bickford, Dom Smith, DJ Peterson, Hunter Renfroe, JP Crawford and Reese McGuire.