The MLB Draft isn’t about addressing the immediate needs of the big-league clubs, as almost all of the players selected this week won’t be debuting in the majors for at least two seasons.
Maybe a Bob Horner, Pete Incaviglia, David Price or Brandon Finnegan will pop up in the draft, but many players will take four or five years to develop. Many won’t make it to the big leagues at all.
But if the goal of all 30 MLB teams is to draft and develop big-league pitchers, more specifically starting pitchers, the Texas Rangers, at the very least, gave themselves a large crop of potential rotation candidates down the road.