Ben and Carlos are joined by Baseball America national college writer Jacob Rudner for our third annual amateur player draft. The game is simple: among 2025 eligible players each writer attempts to put together the best roster of players including one catcher, two corner infielders, two middle infielders, three outfielders, four pitchers and one utility spot. 

The three draft their teams and talk about the players, the strategy, the strengths and weaknesses of the class and more to celebrate the opening day of college baseball. 

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Time Stamps:

• (0:00) Welcoming Jacob and overview of the draft rules
• (4:30) Draft starts
• (12:40) Ben takes a famous prepster
• (20:00) A well-rounded college outfielder
• (21:00) The best pure hitter in the class?
• (27:30) Catchers starting to fly off the board
• (31:10) Ben finally takes a pitcher
• (36:40) A tweener SEC infielder
• (42:40) Back-to-back college mashers
• (48:20) Ben tackles the prep pitching demographic
• (58:00) Jacob grabs a big power prep bat
• (1:05:20) Questions about the second and third tier arms
• (1:12:30) Full team rundowns & draft thoughts

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