The Pinstriped Baseball Lane

Well, its been almost three months since MLB vanished from the baseball diamond, but a five-round draft is here in an atmosphere that hopefully the world will never have to confront again. This evening via video, the first round will be held and televised by MLB and ESPN. The following four rounds are set for Thursday.

Here’s the latest on what will probably go down for the New York Yankees and other possible moves that other teams may make:

Per Bryan Hoch, “Under normal circumstances, the Yankees’ talent evaluators prepare for the MLB Draft by visiting countless diamonds across the nation, setting their eyes upon the brightest high school and collegiate talent. For Damon Oppenheimer, the club’s vice president and director of domestic amateur scouting, this will be the first time that most of that work has been performed digitally.”

Hoch also pointed to the fact…