dugoutcentral.com - 5/1/2008
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Author gives recommendations to improve the MLB draft, especially after watching the NFL draft. One thing he said I liked was having a minor leaguer highlight show, giving fans the opportunity to better follow players their teams just drafted.
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... Jeff Moore from Dugout Central has a piece on how to spice up the mlb draft. A lot of the suggestions sound interesting. It also gives me a chance to talk about the “draft series” I mentioned a while back. You probably don’t even remember it, but I said I was going to make a series of posts on the draft at some point. Well, I haven’t yet and I probably will not. I will most likely have some posts on it as the process certainly does interest me. But the truth is that I simply don’t follow college or high school ball closely enough to really provide ...
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