Pavin Smith

Pundits can spin it anyway they want, but the DBacks suffered huge losses this offseason. Patrick Corbin signed a big 6 year $140MM contract with the Nationals, AJ Pollock signed a 5 year $60MM contract with LAD, and all-world 1B Paul Goldschmidt was traded to the Cards. So three teams that figured to be in contention anyway picked up the DBacks top 3 players. How does a team that won

The June amateur draft is due to kick off on Monday, June 12, with the first two rounds and supplemental rounds due to be selected that day. Rounds 3-40 will be selected June 13-14. Talent-wise this is considered to be a very weak draft overall. I like the quote from one Area…