Main League Baseball’s newbie draft is simply a matter of weeks away. The primary spherical will get underway on Sunday, July 14, coinciding with the beginning of the All-Star Sport festivities. However, earlier than we flip our consideration to this yr’s draftees, we needed to take a second to look again eventually yr’s class.

For these new to the Prospect Watch characteristic, we usually run it on the primary two Fridays of every month (we’re a number of days early this time). One piece focuses on the Nationwide League, the opposite on the American League. We virtually all the time have a single theme. Take this version of Prospect Watch, the place we’ll be checking in on how every AL membership’s prime draft decide from final summer time has fared so far this season. (Do notice you possibly can click on right here to search out the Nationwide League crop.)

Easy sufficient, proper? Now, let’s get to the great things.