MINORS: 2019 Draft: Scouting round one

Pictured: #1 overall selection Adley Rutschman (C, BAL)

As general interest has grown in prospectdom over the past decade or so, naturally some of it has moved deeper into the amateur ranks and the MLB Draft. We still realize though that for most fantasy players, our "starting points" are when players get scooped up by MLB teams, either through the First Year Player Draft or the International Signing Period that starts each July. 

So it's our aim here at BaseballHQ.com to cover the draft in the way most helpful to our readers. And that is by introducing the top picks from the MLB Draft to you. For years, we've done a day-after first-round retrospective, and that continues in 2019. The concept is that if the MLB teams thought enough of...

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