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I haven't looked around much to see if there are any locals (including UC) with a shot at going early in the draft but the lack of noise about any makes me think there aren't many.

The Reds, on the other hand, are looking at another top 5 pick. If you buy the word on the street, they seem to have a pretty clear top 4 of college pitchers Mize and Singer and college bats Bart (Catcher) and Madrigal (2B/SS) not necessarily in that order. By most accounts then and now, there's very little chance of Mize or Bart lasting until #5, but it seemed likely for the last few weeks per the mocks that one or both of Singer or Madrigal would be there for the Reds at 5. Unfortunately, that's gotten a lot cloudier as the Phils at #3 may have cooled on college 1B/3B Bohm and might take one of the Reds' top 4. On the other hand, some think one of the top 3 teams might give an underslot deal (perhaps to a HS pitcher hoping to have extra money to pay overslot in the later rounds) which would push back at least one of our top 4 to us.

Personally, I'd take Mize if he's there but he still seems slated to go #1. I'm also very open to Bart but I'm not sure how I'd rank him relative to Singer or Madrigal we had our choice of the 3. But again that seems very unlikely. More realistically I'm hoping Singer and/or Madrigal is around at 5. I guess I'd slightly prefer Singer just because of position need and possible nearness to the majors, but I'd be very happy with Madrigal as well.

Things get much more dicey if they are both gone. I don't think they'd go with Bohm as he projects to 1B or DH. If I had to guess, I think they'd go with a HS picher although they've also been mentioned with college 3B India. If they go HS pitcher I think they'd target lefty Matt Liberatore He sounds like fine prospect, but man are HS pitchers risky and we just took one last year. HS Hitters are risky too, but a wildcard that I find intriguing is HS OF Jarred Kelenic.