There seems to be a collective effort on the part of Major League Baseball to put some weight behind their marathon that is the MLB First Year Player Draft...all 50 rounds of it. This year's draft is particularly intriguing because of Bryce Harper. Harper has been called "
Baseball's LeBron James" as recently as a year ago. He hits 500 foot home runs and receives all kinds of glowing praise about his play. Harper also has the reputation of being a
Ryan Leaf-type of entitled jerk as well. So it looks like the Washington Nationals are going to have back to back Scott Boras represented number 1 picks that will be the cornerstones of their franchise for this decade, and will get more than their share of attention as well.
That's all well and good, but there's a reason I won't be particularly intrigued by this draft. The reason being that Kenny Williams is still making the White Sox draft picks. In case you don't remember how Williams has gone 0-for the 2000's (unless Gordon Beckham rebounds) with his first round selections, here's a
trip down memory lane that I found on Chicago Now.
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