On Wednesday afternoon, the 2017 Brewers draft came into sharper focus as KJ Harrison and Tristen Lutz both signed. If any prospects were to personify the Brewers’ draft strategy, Lutz and Harrison would be two of the best candidates as they are both huge risk projection plays by the Milwaukee scouting department. Lutz is a […]
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Getting to Know the Brewers’ Top Five Draft Picks
Major League Baseball teams are lucky to get just two or three average big leaguers out of each draft class. That doesn’t stop anyone from getting to know and dreaming on their favorite team’s top picks. The Milwaukee Brewers seemed to go the risk-reward route with their top-five draft picks, selecting three high schoolers and […]
MLB Draft and OFP Surplus
The MLB Draft is a questionable institution at best, and an awful one in its worst aspects. From a labor standpoint, the Draft filters professional baseball talent through a non-competitive process, suppressing a player’s potential earning power from Day One. Even the (roughly) 300 players lucky enough to be written into one of the MLB’s […]