I've been writing for months now about the stacked college crop for the 2011 draft, which is particularly loaded with high-end starters who project, or could project, as No. 1 starters. The group is headed by Vanderbilt's Sonny Gray, who is followed closely by teammate Jack Armstrong, UCLA's Gerrit Cole, Virginia's Danny Hultzen, Kentucky's Alex Meyer, Texas' Taylor Jungmann, and TCU southpaw Matt Purke (who'll be age-eligible as a sophomore), with another dozen college arms who'd be first-rounders in a typical draft.
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Keith Law joined ESPN.com in June 2006 as the lead baseball analyst for Scouts Inc., covering the majors, minors and amateurs. Before joining ESPN, Law spent 4½ years with the Toronto Blue Jays as a special assistant to the general manager, and was previously a writer for Baseball Prospectus. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon.
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