Thoughts on the Major Baseball Media Outlets' Mock Drafts for the Giants

This 2020 MLB Draft is as murky as it gets in terms of reliable information available due to the pandemic. As a result, there are plenty of uncertainty and a lack of information circulating at this time when compared to previous years. However, mock drafts are still getting pumped by respectable media outlets and after I shared my thoughts on the Prospects Live mock draft reaction, I will be sharing my thoughts this time on who did the national media outlets have the Giants selecting with their first round selection in next month's draft. 

The No-Win Situation Brought By the Pandemic to the 2020 MLB Draft

Hello everyone. This is just a short post. It is pretty much a certainty now that the 2020 MLB Draft will only go up to 5 rounds and the maximum signing bonus for a NDFA is now going to go to as high as $20,000, a good $100,000 less than the usual. Here's my thoughts on it and how it might affect the prospects and the front offices in general. 

Thoughts on the Giant's Haul in The Prospects Live Mock Draft + Something Extra

Hello everyone. I hope that everyone of you are well in this dire time. In this quarantine period, I've let loose, like really let loose. I have a lot of interests aside from baseball and in the almost 2 months of quarantine in my country, I've dug deep into my other hobbies and interests like watching Formula 1, tennis, basketball, American football among others, read a lot of manga and watch anime, watched and played League of Legends, etc. I escaped baseball at all. Literally, I gave zero time to baseball, all facets of it. But recently, I felt the itch to do baseball stuff and here I am, writing about the most exciting event of every year, the MLB Draft.

It's nice that the MLB will follow suit with the NFL and hold the draft virtually. In my opinion, I think that this is a great opportunity to squeeze as much publicity as they can towards the draft prospects because possibly for the first time ever but certainly the first time since I started following baseball more than a decade ago, all the draft-eligible prospects will be available to attend the event (albeit virtually). I think that it's a great time to showcase these players and especially for the case of baseball, any publicity is good publicity. 

I wanted to do a draft special regarding the prospects that I like but I don't have a way of connecting the dots together in one swoop. Thankfully, Prospects Live did a virtual mock draft a couple of days ago and the Giants' GM in the draft was Roger Munter with the aid of Brian Recca and Marc Delucchi in their war room. The Giants needed arms to compliment their stout hitting foundation in their farm system and the three sure did in their mock draft, grabbing four pitchers in the first two rounds, and boy, they are electric. I'm going to break down the 5 players that they drafted, grading their selections and giving my reaction on it.