A few days ago, I wrote a piece looking back on the 2008 draft class, and the very unusual preponderance of bat-first and bat-only prospects in same. That piece was initially planned to be the preamble to the scouting reports I’m writing here today, but then metastasized into its own thing, which it really probably should have been in the first place, considering how fascinating I’ve always found that particular draft class due to its very odd composition. So just in case you haven’t read that previous piece, you might want to for a little longview consideration of how prospects whose sole tool is the bat tend to work out.
2018 Draft Preview No. 3: The Bats of ‘18
