Okay, before you Mariners fans get upset, no, I don’t think Alex McKenna is the next Mitch Haniger. Could he be? Sure, you can be anything you want to be if you just follow your dreams… or whatever.
The current trend for Mariner’s drafts has been selecting college bats in the first round, then worrying about pitching later. Trends die. I see this trend dying in next months draft, with the Mariners drafting one of Logan Gilbert, Jackson Kowar, or Ryan Rolison.
So that leaves the Mariners looking for a bat, preferably from the college level, in the second and third rounds.