Beyond the tortured efforts to make the MLB draft a television product, it’s quite possible that pushing it back a month and then compressing its 20 rounds to two days is eventually going to melt the brains of scouting directors across the league.
“Right now my head, I’m a little taxed,” said White Sox scouting director Mike Shirley. “In the old days, you had just one phone in the draft room. No one could text you. In today’s world, all the agents have your cell number. Your phone is going off nonstop, nonstop. Everybody is trying to feed you information, from not only in your room, but outside your room – agents, players, friends. So many people sending you information. I think I called seven college head coaches [Sunday] about the first three round guys as it was unfolding.”
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