Kiley McDaniel from ESPN posted his first mock draft on Wednesday and he has the Pittsburgh Pirates taking Cal Poly shortstop Brooks Lee with the fourth overall pick. Lee has been connected to the Pirates more times in the last three months than everyone else in this draft class combined, and he’s been popping up more frequently lately. The draft is still over six weeks away, so plenty can change in that time, but Lee has held steady for quite some time. We posted our Draft Prospect Watch article on him recently, with plenty of info/video to go along with the link above.
McDaniel has the first three picks in the draft going to Druw Jones, Jackson Holliday and Elijah Green. You can find info on all three of those players in both links above.
As a side note here, McDaniel has the Pirates selecting Jonathan Cannon with the 36th overall pick. He’s a right-handed pitcher from Georgia. Here’s a video from a month ago put out by Prospect Live. Once you get past the top 20 picks or so, it’s nearly impossible to predict where guys will go beyond a general area, so Cannon gives you more of an idea of the talent that will be available in that spot, rather than focusing on him specifically.
