Prognosticators have swung and missed on just about every draft this year – and MLB’s is no exception.
Every single NBA mock draft expert, 13-of-13, slated Jabari Smith Jr. to go No. 1 overall to the Orlando Magic in the hours and minutes leading up to June’s selection day.
Even Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA’s premier insider, indicated Smith Jr. would go No. 1 in the lead-up to the draft. Smith Jr. had been roughly -500 half an hour before the Magic were on the clock.
Woj, so-called mock experts and the markets were all wrong. Paolo Banchero was the eventual pick, and while sportsbooks corrected themselves fewer than five minutes before Adam Silver donned the podium, the bait-and-switch cost them quite a bit of money.