You may have heard that the NFL draft is currently unfolding. While the MLB draft is still a few months away, this seems like as good of a time as any to look back on a baseball draft class that’s nearly a decade into their professional careers. Making this exercise even more enticing is that none of the original first-round picks from the 2016 MLB draft have been selected to an All-Star Game to date. It’s ripe for a redraft.
One interesting takeaway that emerged over the course of this process was that while 13 of the 23 original first-round picks were selected out of high school, only six prep players were taken in this redraft—and just two in the top 10. Another thing to note is that since only 14 players from the class of 2016 have made an All-Star team—players who were drafted but did not sign weren’t included in our redraft—we were splitting hairs near the end.
