Pittsburgh Pirates Draft Board: SS Marcello Mayer
With so many options for the number one overall pick, one player has separated himself as the favorite. High school shortstop Marcello Mayer is said to be the best talent in this year's draft and is projected to go number one to the Pirates. With the Major League Baseball draft just three days away, all of the latest Mock Drafts are out. Experts have spent all season crunching the numbers and trying to get inside the heads of General Managers across the MLB to see who they are going to take. While a lot of the picks vary in the top ten, one projection has stayed pretty consistent and that is who the Pittsburgh Pirates will take with the number one overall selection. The projection is someone who hasn't really been talked about much over the last year and a half, but he is said to be the best talent available in this year's draft. I'm not talking about Jack Leiter or Kumar Rocker, but a high school shortstop from California named Marcelo Mayer. Mayer comes fr...