Drafting baseball players is an exercise in extreme patience. Not only must a team wait around for their draft picks to become actual MLB players, these teams also set themselves up for immense heartbreak. They know that a handful of the drafted players (sometimes even the first rounders), will not become baseball superstars. Some of them will barely even become baseball players at all. But the ones who stick become extra special, as the team can wheel them out to the country fair and proudly announce that they grew them all on their own.
The best 15 homegrown Mariners are a fun bunch.