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SI: Rendon, Purke, Cole will battle for POY and No. 1 pick in draft
Joe Lemire
Inside Baseball
As the college baseball season started in earnest over the weekend, the year's best pro prospects -- Rice third baseman Anthony Rendon, UCLA righthanded starter Gerrit Cole and TCU lefthanded starter Matt Purke -- began their campaigns not only for national player of the year but also No. 1 overall pick in the MLB draft.
"If the draft were held today," a major league scouting director said, "those would be the first three names off the board."
That assessment was echoed by a second club scouting director and by Jim Callis, the executive editor of Baseball America, meaning the chore of the Pirates, Mariners and Diamondbacks -- who hold the first three selections this year, respectively -- between now and June is mostly a question of order rather than identity. ...
Joe Lemire
Inside Baseball
As the college baseball season started in earnest over the weekend, the year's best pro prospects -- Rice third baseman Anthony Rendon, UCLA righthanded starter Gerrit Cole and TCU lefthanded starter Matt Purke -- began their campaigns not only for national player of the year but also No. 1 overall pick in the MLB draft.
"If the draft were held today," a major league scouting director said, "those would be the first three names off the board."
That assessment was echoed by a second club scouting director and by Jim Callis, the executive editor of Baseball America, meaning the chore of the Pirates, Mariners and Diamondbacks -- who hold the first three selections this year, respectively -- between now and June is mostly a question of order rather than identity. ...
