Surprised we still don't have a draft thread, but here's Baseball America's first mock draft. It's the earliest they've ever put one out: http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft...wk0iGyrxPd1.97
5. Atlanta Braves
Austin Beck, of, North Davidson High, Lexington, N.C. : It’s a banner year in North Carolina with lefty McKenzie Gore and Bukauskas drawing in cross checkers and scouting directors by the dozen, but they’ve been wowed by Beck, who has returned from a torn ACL to show premium tools, with potential 70 power, speed and defense with a plus arm. Beck has had a couple of “Roy Hobbs” performances where he’s made the game look ridiculously easy, and the Rays are in heavy at No. 4 as well. Beck is the draft’s fastest riser but also could slide back down the draft as teams fret about his lack of wood-bat track record, after missing last summer and fall with his knee injury. That casts some doubts on his true hitting grade.
Read more at http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft...blWCvD77mR0.99
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