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Two important things regarding the early picks.

1. Almost always they are well known by the scouting community long before their final season.

2. They performed well in that final season. That final spring is vitally important. Prospects move up or down in the draft during that period.

Sometimes a player misses his final season or part of it due to injury. Then scouting departments will go by what they have in the past. BTW, there have been several pitchers go in the first round in the past few years that missed part or all of their final season. A few were even rehabbing from TJ surgery. Though chances are they would have been picked even earlier without the injury.

1/16/1611:50 AM

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