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TAKING STOCK OF DRAFT PROSPECTS

A large portion of the major league scouting community descended on USA Baseball’s National Training Complex in Cary, N.C., in April for the eighth annual National High School Invitational.

Baseball America was at each game of the event, observing and taking notes to focus on how the top prospects at the tournament handled themselves and whether they improved their draft stock.

The NHSI didn’t produce a Jordyn Adams-type storyline this year, where a player significantly boosted his stock and jumped into firstround consideration, but there were enough players at the event to keep draft junkies satiated.

C.J. ABRAMS, SS

BLESSED TRINITY CATHOLIC HS, ROSWELL, GA. BA RANK:NO.4

Abrams looked

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