The MLB draft hasn’t historically been as significant an event as the NFL and NBA events. After all, baseball players need much longer to develop than football and basketball players, so the guys selected in the draft are usually years away from making a big league roster—if they do at all. But fans in Seattle made the first round of this year’s MLB draft as lively as any other draft.
They booed commissioner Rob Manfred into oblivion at the start of the draft. They voiced support for the A’s to stay in Oakland. They booed Manfred again. Then, they briefly stopped booing Manfred, only to erupt in one of their loudest choruses of boos all night long.
The target? The hated Astros.
