MLB Draft: Unlucky Number 35?
By Editorial Staff
The draft is one of my favorite events in all of sports. While the NFL’s version is a more televised and covered event than the one Major League Baseball holds each summer, the MLB amateur draft brings me just as much pleasure, if not more. There are so many different types of players and storylines that go into the draft, and club’s futures are often determined by the choices their front office leaders make.
As in the NFL, there are few, if any, sure things in the Major League Baseball draft. The deeper you get, the less likely you are to find impact players.
Still, fans and teams alike hope and expect the prospects taken in the first few rounds of the draft to become productive ball players.
However, if your club ends up with the 35th overall pick in next summer’s draft, some would tell you not to set your expectations too high for the player selected. Specifically, one analyst made the comment that “the 35th pick in the draft almost always flops”.
This got Wally Fish, FanSided MLB Director and Seedlings to Stars contributor, thinking. Could the number 35 possibly be that unlucky? Could the players selected at this point in past drafts truly almost always turn out to be duds?
Wally breaks those and other questions downs, letting us know if this is a bogus statement or if teams should look to start forfeiting pick number 35.