Public evaluators and league scouts are expecting Homewood-Flossmoor’s Dillon Head to have his name called in the first two rounds of the MLB First-Year Player Draft on Sunday.
When that happens, the first descriptors will settle on the 18-year-old center fielder’s raw ingredients: the athleticism, which Head sensed was a cut above his peers from an early age, that fuels his defense; the top-of-the-scale speed that inspired countless pick-off throws whenever he reached base, which was more than half the time during his senior season.
