The Tampa Bay Rays, blessed with a large draft pool due to five picks on Day One of the draft, were able to nab a consensus top-seven draft pick who, on aggregate, was projected to third overall.
Instead, the draft got weird, and a couple players hoping to be paid according to his talents fell. This put the Rays in position to draft LHP Matthew Liberatore at the No. 16 overall selection, a shocking turn of events.
The other such player to fall for big bonus concerns was UF’s Singer (who went to the Royals two picks later).