The top of the 2018 MLB draft isn’t that deep, but the quality of high school outfielders and right handed pitchers with first round skills is widespread. This makes for a highly volatile draft next week, but also a draft that plays into the Tampa Bay Rays hands. They possess the 16, 31, and 32 picks of the draft and have the second largest draft bonus pool of any team.
As far as what the Rays may target, the franchise has drafted players that can play up the middle early and often in their previous drafts.
2012: SS Spencer Edwards, No.