The draft is the best and perhaps the only chance for an organization like the Pirates to get an arm of this caliber, and looking back, it would have been foolish to pass up on the combination of winning the No. Gonzalez: I'm mildly surprised, both because some of the latest rumors linked them to Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford and because of the attrition rate for pitchers in general, but I think they made the right choice. There were three clear favorites at the top of this draft: Did the Pirates make the right decision in drafting Paul Skenes? And Kiley McDaniel shares his best names available for the next 18 rounds, which will continue Monday and Tuesday. 3 on, we got plenty of surprising picks in the first two rounds.ĮSPN baseball insiders Alden Gonzalez, Jesse Rogers and Dave Schoenfield are sharing their favorite and most head-scratching moves of the draft's first night, as well as their picks for the players who'll bring the most to their teams long-term. The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Paul Skenes, one of the consensus best picks in the class, first overall, and his LSU teammate Dylan Crews followed to the Washington Nationals at No. The first day of the MLB draft is over! And members of one of the most loaded classes in recent draft history now have new homes.

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