This year’s draft is, according to almost every analyst, one of the thinnest in recent memory. Thanks to a hot start in 2018 and the overwhelming mediocrity of the AL Central, the Mariners find themselves at the back end of the selection order, left to pick from a third-tier group of names that includes underwhelming collegiates and high schoolers with signability issues or big question marks regarding their future. It’s a bad year to have a bad draft for the Mariners, who have only just begun rebuilding a system ranked dead last by most outlets last year.
The case for reaching for Michigan’s Jordan Brewer in the second round
