Well, we ar eno longer live, but I think I spent about two hours talking the draft. The video is below (or should be soon).

The 2018 Major League Baseball Draft begins tonight. You can watch it on MLB Network with their draft preview show beginning at 6pm. The draft show itself will kick off at 7pm. Day 1 will feature the 1st and 2nd rounds, including the compensation round following round 2 where the Reds will have a 3rd pick tonight. Day two will have rounds 3-10, and day three is the finale with rounds 11-40.

The Cincinnati Reds draft pool for 2018 is $10,900,400. That’s how much they can spend over the first 10 rounds. After round 10, anything they spend does not count towards that bonus pool unless the team spends more than $125,000 on a selection – then anything over that amount counts towards the bonus pool. Here’s the breakdown for the slot value of each pick:

1st round: $5,946,400

2nd round: $1,520,300

2nd round, comp B: $837,700

3rd round: $716,000

4th round: $512,800

5th round: $382,900

6th round: $287,700

7th round: $224,200

8th round: $177,700

9th round: $152,600

10th round: $142,100

2018 MLB Draft Rankings

Here are some quick links to various draft rankings.

2018 MLB Mock Drafts

There will be some updates to this today. But as I am typing this, here are the most recent mock drafts from the places I consider in tune enough to be reliable, and who they project going to the Cincinnati Reds:

Baseball America UPDATED AT 3:15PM

This was just updated and the crew at Baseball America has the Reds taking Florida third baseman Jonathan India. They also make a note that it could be a landing spot for Matthew Liberatore, the high school left-hander out of Arizona.

Fangraphs

They also had their latest mock draft come out three days ago. It sounds like they will have another one today, too. In their mock draft from Friday they have the Reds selecting Nick Madrigal, the infielder from Oregon State.

ESPN

Keith Law posted his latest mock draft this morning. This is his final projection. He, like Fangraphs, has the Cincinnati Reds selecting Oregon State infielder Nick Madrigal.

MLB Pipeline

This came out last night, with both Jonathan Mayo and Jim Callis projecting the Cincinnati Reds to take Florida third baseman Jonathan India.

Rumors of the Day

Updated at 2:15pm

Tigers and Casey Mize’s advisers have been in blackout for the past 24 hours. This is going to the wire. — Lynn G. Henning (@Lynn_Henning) June 4, 2018

Things will shape up with what the Tigers do, and apparently things are getting wild with them and Casey Mize. Perhaps it’s just posturing on both sides, but it seems there’s still a decent possibility that they are both looking at other options. If the Tigers pass, it opens things up – maybe even for the Cincinnati Reds at #5 (Mize won’t get there, but his being available for someone before them changes things for Cincinnati).

In the MLB Pipeline mock draft there’s an interesting tidbit from Jim Callis as it relates to the Reds:

Rumors persist that the Reds could take Texas high school right-hander Grayson Rodriguez to save money and make a run at Oklahoma outfielder/quarterback Murray in the second round, though they deny it.

Kyler Murray has played the last two seasons at Oklahoma. This season he’s hit .296/.398/.556 with 10 home runs, 28 walks, and 56 strikeouts in 51 games. He’s rather raw as a baseball player, but has plenty of upside who showed big strides this season. Rumors were going around that it could take $3M to get him to sign last night. It would be risky for the Reds, as other teams can also cut deals in the 1st round, and have a higher following pick – which could leave the Reds taking a lesser pick at #5 than they otherwise would have, and not have “their guy” fall to them for the second pick – leaving them with two picks that weren’t the top guy on their board with their first two options.

In non-Reds related rumors, the big one is that the Tigers are still looking at options beyond Casey Mize. What Detroit winds up doing can shake up the first 5-7 picks quite a bit.

This post will be updated throughout the day with information as it comes in.