Many were surprised by how aggressive the San Diego Padres were in taking high school players in the 2020 MLB Draft.
It was thought that teams would be more likely to go the safe route and take college players in this unusual draft as most high school players would probably elect to go to college and hope for bigger money in a few years when things are hopefully back to normal.
And for the most part, teams did that, but not the Padres.
They took high school players with their first three picks and with four of their six picks.