While the Major League Baseball season winds down, the National Hockey League is getting ready to drop the puck. Over at The Athletic, which is my go-to website for hockey, they’ve been previewing the upcoming season in a myriad of ways, including re-drafting several recent drafts.

Interestingly, with only slight variations, the tops of the drafts have been consistent with what actually took place.

My brain connected these re-drafts with Baltimore’s recent extension of their young catcher/first baseman, Samuel Basallo. Now, Basallo wasn’t drafted—he was an international signing—but the Orioles notably took another catcher, Adley Rutschman, with the No. 1 pick in the 2019 draft, one spot ahead of the Royals selecting Bobby Witt Jr.

I don’t know what the plan is in Baltimore, whether Basa

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