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Dylan Crews Goes to Pirates in Latest Mock Draft

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Prep Baseball Report released a mid-season mock draft on Thursday. The top six spots in their mock draft also happen to be the same six players we have profiled in our weekly Draft Prospect series.

The top spot in this mock draft from PBR belongs to Dylan Crews, the LSU outfielder, who has been tearing the cover off of the ball all season. Going into Friday night’s action, he has a .495/.638/.844 slash line in 33 games, with 11 doubles, nine homers and 35 walks.

Crews has been the top prospect in this draft for almost everyone from the start. So it’s no surprise that he has kept the top spot with that insane slash line that he’s putting up.

The second spot in this mock draft goes to right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes, who is a teammate of Crews. Skenes has been the best pitcher all season in college, though he last two starts have not been on par with his first seven outings.

PBR goes with the top two high school outfielders in the next spots. Max Clark and Walker Jenkins both have potential to go #1 overall, but they both seem to be running into the same hurdle. They are drawing a ton of walks this season, so scouts might not be getting great looks at them, even if they see them numerous times.

Wyatt Langford and Chase Dollander are in the 5/6 spots in this mock draft. Dollander has not been putting up dominating stats as the Friday night starter for Tennessee, so he stock has dropped down a tick. Langford missed some time with injury, but the Florida outfielder comps well with Crews according to many sources, so he still likely has a chance to go #1 overall.

The link at the top for PBR has the rest of their top 39 picks. The other link added has information on all of these players.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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