Getting invested in the MLB draft is a double-edged sword: while picking out favorite prospects makes the draft more fun to follow, it can also lead to heartbreak when your team doesn’t draft the apple of your eye—or worse, when a division rival does. That being said, we at LL have, perhaps foolishly, each chosen a player whom we hope the Mariners will select with their first-round draft pick.
The Mariners are famously tight-lipped about player acquisitions in general but especially with the draft, although Keith Law stated in his most recent mock draft that he’d heard a rumor that had the Mariners going way overslot for NJ prep SS Anthony Volpe, and FanGraphs—perhaps working on the same intel—also assigned Volpe to the Mariners.