In a year with no consensus top player, the Philadelphia Phillies led off Major League Baseball’s draft Thursday by taking Mickey Moniak, a high school outfielder from California.
It could be a while before we’ll have a sense of whether Moniak is worthy of that selection. Even the top picks need time to develop, and that certainly figures to be true of Moniak, who was the first prep outfielder taken No. 1 since Tampa Bay drafted Delmon Young in 2003.
