“You could push the draft back, kick it into July,” said one general manager whose team picks in the top 10 this year, “but at some point, we’ll have to draft.”



MLB teams have pulled their scouts off the road, which makes sense because there’s almost nothing left to scout with all Division I college teams either suspending or canceling their seasons already, and many high schools doing the same. If no amateur players return to the field, which is possible, we’d have the shortest draft scouting season in history — four weekends of college play, with some high schools in the South playing for about a month and others in the North and Midwest yet to begin. One first-round prospect, Pennsylvania high school pitcher Nick Bitsko, threw a bullpen in front of scouts a week ago … and that’s it. His school district has suspended all athletics until at least April 14; if that date holds, they’d have a 10-game season, and...