The 2027 cycle is underway. We finally get the ask the question whether Dylan Seward can do one of the tougher things in amateur baseball.
Not hit. Not defend. Not run — Lord knows he can run.
Stay.
Going pole to pole is a specific kind of achievement in this industry. It means you were the top high school player on the board in July of your junior summer, and you were still the top high school player on the board when a general manager carves your name into an index card with Sharpie twelve months later. It sounds simple. It is not. There is an entire evaluation ecosystem built to question your strengths, dissect your weaknesses, and compare your to your talented peers. Tournament circuits with every scouts worth a damn in attendance. A spring where every advance scout in your area has already seen the tell in your …