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2022 MLB Draft and Panini Prospecting

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It's that time again, although it feels a lot later this year... Time for Rob Manfred to get booed loudly in public! Though not as loud as the boos Denver game him at last year's draft. Thanks Colorado! The Dodgers may own the Rockies, but we beat their ass in Manfred Booing! Now it is time for the 2022 MLB Draft! Which is one of my favorite baseball events of the year. While I don't follow any college baseball, I try to read up on the draft prospects, so I'm somewhat familiar when the draft comes. Dating back to my earliest collecting habits, I've been a prospect chaser. Not to a great degree anymore, due to the sheer cost of trying to keep up with it. I like to speculate on who will grow into major leaguers and have successful careers. Then there's the ones that crash and burn. It's always more than you'd expect when you hear them all talked up so high on draft night. You just have to let it play out and see what happens. Never fully satisfied with wha...