Baseball America posted their fourth mock draft on Friday morning and they have a familiar name going to the Pittsburgh Pirates with the fourth overall pick.
On Wednesday, we posted the mock draft from Kiley McDaniel at ESPN and he picked Cal Poly shortstops Brooks Lee. I mentioned in that article that Lee has been connected to the Pirates numerous times recently and too many times to count since mock draft season started three months ago. In fact, our Draft Prospect Watch article for Lee was titled “Brooks Lee has been Connected to the Pirates all Season”, and that was put out two weeks ago. Then yesterday we got a new mock draft from Jonathan Mayo on MLB Pipeline, and he had Lee for the Pirates. As you may have guessed already, BA has Lee to the Pirates today.
In their write-up, BA notes that the Pirates are looking at a group that includes the top six players. Their (BA) 1-3 picks in this mock draft are Jackson Holliday, Druw Jones and Elijah Green, who were the same top three players (different orders) for Mayo and McDaniel. The interesting name included with those players is Georgia catcher Kevin Parada. I didn’t think he was a possibility with the Pirates adding Henry Davis last year and multiple catching prospects recently, but this is baseball, and you never draft for need in baseball, so I’ll have to add Parada, who is a strong bat, to my upcoming Draft Prospect Watch articles.
