Good morning and welcome to episode 465 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

baseball prospectus presented by the baseballreference.com Play Index.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

And as promised, we have brought back BP's draft expert, amateur prospect expert, Nick

Follars.

You were promised that?

I don't remember you promising that.

We strongly suggested that it was a possibility.

So we have followed through on that strong suggestion.

Of course, the first couple rounds of the draft are now complete.

The day before the draft, of course, all of this is abstract.

You might not want to get too invested in any one player who might not end up going to

your team.

Now, those of you who root for particular teams have a personal stake in these players.

So things got real.

So now you probably want to know about the players that your team selected or didn't

select and we'll get into that now.

Before we begin, let me throw something out there.

We talk all the time about the futility of mock drafts and how impossible it is to predict

who will be picked where.

Is it possible that all this time, the problem with mock drafts is that I haven't been doing

them?

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