MLB Draft 2011

Picture a baseball prodigy. Maybe it's the next Bryce Harper; maybe it's the next Stephen Strasburg. He's young, nervous, fidgeting with his tie and sweating slightly under the heat of bright television camera lights.

We've now reached the halfway point of the college baseball season, meaning the build-up to the 2011 MLB draft has officially begun.

The usual suspects are still out in the forefront.

Guys like Gerrit Cole, Anthony Rendon and Sonny Gray are still top-five picks, while there's been some incredible movement by players like Taylor Jungmann and Danny Hultzen, who have catapulted themselves into top-10 or even top-five consideration.

In case you hadn't noticed, high school ball is also heating up. 

If you have to pick a top pitcher heading into the 2011 MLB Draft, Gerrit Cole would be your go-to guy.

With the first overall pick of the 2000 June amateur draft, the Florida Marlins took Adrian Gonzalez. But what if Hanley Ramirez, who signed just a month later with the Boston Red Sox, had been available to them? Florida ended up trading for Ramirez in November 2005, and Gonzalez would later find his way to Boston, but one cannot help but wonder how baseball history might be different in that hypothetical world. 

Thanks to all of you who have been keeping up with my piece-by-piece mock draft here at Bleacher Report, and a special thanks to those of you who clicked on these articles thinking they were NFL Mock Drafts and decided to keep reading. I consider you converts to the MLB Draft.