The last time six high school left-handed pitchers went in the first round of the MLB Draft, Bill Clinton was in his second term, Mark McGwire had just broken the home run record, and Napster was still eight months away from changing the music industry forever. It was 1999. Twenty-six years ago. And it has not happened since.
Until, potentially, this July.
Carson Bolemon, Brody Bumila, Sean Duncan, Jared Grindlinger, Gio Rojas, and Logan Schmidt. Six high school southpaws with legitimate first-round cases, in the same draft class, at the same time. If all six hear their names called in the first round (including the competitive balance/compensation picks), they'll match the all-time record set more than a quarter century ago. It's a record that, in the intervening years, hasn't even come particularly close to falling. The next-highest totals in the modern era are five, reached …