MINORS: First-year player draft potential rating buckets (2022)

Photo: Cade Horton (RHP, CHC)

This is my favorite article every year. Mostly, because I get to throw potential ratings on everyone in the first round. I’m a little late running this article because I spent draft week on vacation. Admittedly, I wasn’t as dialed in to the draft this year because I spent little time at the ballpark this spring tracking down guys who were drafted. My assignment this year was tracking down the Georgia prep kids on the cusp of draft consideration. Only one of the dudes I saw, Chandler Pollard (OF, TEX), got drafted. Because of a virus, I missed my one chance to see Druw Jones (OF, ARI) and Termarr Johnson (SS, PIT) and injuries to Dylan Lesko (RHP, SD) and Omari Daniel (SS, MIN) coincided with my...

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