Cleveland Guardians President of Operations Chris Antonetti breaks down how the team approaching the 2024 MLB Draft, including the No. 1 overall pick.
organization will do something its never done before on the evening of July 14: select the No. 1 pick in the MLB First Year Player Draft.detailed the front office’s mindset heading into the draft, including the opportunity to take the first pick.“I mean, oftentimes, when you’re thinking about your first pick you’re trying to guess who’s going to be off the board before you get an opportunity to select. This year we don’t have to guess, you know, we have control over that.
“It’s really hard to say. I think one of the things we’re really excited about with this draft class is there’s a number of good, high-quality players available to us with the first pick. And we think that will be the case actually with subsequent picks we have after the first pick. So, that’s probably the best direction I can give you is that a group that we would be excited about bringing into the organization with the first pick.
“First and foremost, I think what we are trying to solve for organizationally is use the resources and draft capital we have available to us to bring in the most talented group possible, and that’s really what we’re solving for. We think when we look up at the end of the draft, we will feel good about the group of players we bring into the organization.”
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