From ScottyMitchTSN: Jays head into 'one-of-a-kind' MLB draft with a Top 5 pick. MORE:
“It’s a one-of-a-kind draft, for sure,” said LaCava, who always has one eye on the draft board and the other on the news these days, with his son working as a doctor at virus-ravaged Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. “Fortunately, I think, we’re better prepared or equipped to handle something like this today than we were even five years ago, and certainly 10 and 20 years ago.”
There’s showcase video of the high school crop from last summer, and a few weeks of data from the start of the NCAA season in February that has a ton of small sample size static, but it’s a fraction of what’s usually available. Compounding the unknown nature of this draft for the Blue Jays is the fact they lost director of amateur scouting Steve Sanders, a rising star in the industry and likely a future GM, to the now Ben Cherington-led Pittsburgh Pirates, a team that once passed over hometown candidate LaCava for its GM post in 2007, instead opting for the recently fired Neal Huntington.
While the MLB draft is unlike any other in the four major North American pro sports thanks to the extended timeline it takes to get to the majors, the expectations for a top-five pick are a little bit different, especially if it’s a college player.
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