The Angels promoted their 2024 first-round draft pick, Christian Moore, after two games at the low Single-A level. Is his MLB debut just around the corner?
The Major League Baseball draft is the least popular among the major North American sports for one simple reason: it usually takes so long for players to go from the draft floor to the major leagues, there isn't often much to be excited about in the moment.To wit: of all the players drafted in the first round from 1996 to 2011 who didn't opt to go back to college, 66.7 percent played in the major leagues.
Perry and our player development group overall ... when players know we'll be aggressive pushing them through the system, it creates an urgency for the work. It's been a positive for us overall.'The flaw in this logic is obvious: The Angels haven't improved their fortunes at the major league level one iota since instituting this hyper-aggressive draft strategy.
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