It's a different game from preps to the minors, and the injury factor is prolonged by the trip through the farm system. As much as some fans like to play fantasy GM, I wouldn't dare second-guess most teams for some of these picks. It's a thin argument blaming, for example, the A's and Yankees for taking Todd Van Poppel and Brien Taylor. And when a high school player chooses to attend college instead, that televised draft pick becomes all the more glaring. Add to that the fact that draft spots can't be traded beforehand, and the process has all the intrigue of a college career fair.
Baseball needs all the exposure it can get, but the draft is no place to start looking for it.
This is a league that can't find enough exposure for small-market players like Matt Lawton , Jermaine Dye and Brian Giles , let alone prospects. Try getting more actual big-league games on TV instead. Lee's kind of town Lee Elia probably won't want to celebrate the anniversary he has coming up, but Chicagoans won't let him forget. College basketball has the Bobby Knight collection of pep talks. Hockey has Jim Schoenfeld telling a referee to have another donut.