The 2016 Draft is exceedingly difficult to project for a couple of reasons. No one has stamped himself as a clear-cut top-of-the-Draft option, and the deepest demographic for first-round talent is also the one that scares teams the most. There are seven high school pitchers worthy of going in the first half of the first round, starting with the headliners on MLBPipeline.com's Top 100 Draft list: New Jersey left-hander Jason Groome and Kansas righty Riley Pint. But the injury epidemic among young arms makes clubs leery of taking them early in the first round. A total of seven prep arms have been top-15 picks in the past three years, and only once in the past 44 Drafts have more than five been...
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