MLB Draft: 2016 Draft Winners and Losers

Which Teams Came Away From the 2016 MLB Draft as Draft Weekend Winners, Who Came Away As Winners, And, Well, How Do We Label the Cardinals?

After three days and forty rounds of drafting, many people are looking at the 1,216 names selected and experiencing a bit of brain overload. Heck, most of these guys will never even sniff the major leagues, so why get too worked up about the draft, right?

Well, we’ve seen that working the draft (and not just the first round) is something that allows a team to be successful in the long-term, and being able to afford those long-term players is vital for teams. We’ll take a look at four teams I’m going to classify as “winners” from the weekend and four teams that I’m classifying as “losers” on the weekend.

That doesn’t mean that the winners did everything right and will have 30 major leaguers out of their draft, but they used a good player selection strategy. Likewise, the losers aren’t guaranteed to fail, but in my view, their approach to this draft was not as successful as it could have been for a number of reasons.

Lastly, we’ll take a look at the St. Louis Cardinals, who don’t fit in either end. They’re their own enigma in this year’s draft, and we’ll discuss that more in the final slide.

The teams are ordered alphabetically by their team name, not in any particular ranking order.

Enjoy!

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