Here's the dirty little secret about the days before the MLB Draft, the one that never quite makes it into the mock drafts. Right now, with the White Sox 48 hours from being on the clock with the first overall pick for the first time in nearly a half-century, almost nobody in this sport actually knows what's going to happen Saturday afternoon. Not the teams. Not the agents. And least of all the kids whose names are about to get called.
I know that sounds like a cop-out coming from a guy who spent all spring building boards and ranking players. It isn't. It's the truth of how this thing works, and once you understand the machinery, the whole draft gets more interesting, not less. I've spent much of this week talking with scouting executives navigating these pre-draft meetings. The truth is, war rooms are contentious, thorny and hyper-deliberate right …