The baseball Rule IV amateur draft is an inexact science at best. So many moving parts, so much information to parse, it is a wonder that anybody in scouting gets to keep their job for more than a year at a time.
The Mariners likely consider themselves quite fortunate when they drafted catcher Mike Zunino out of Florida this past June. Zunino was considered one of the most polished and advanced players in the draft, a player who figures to insert himself into the Major League conversation in a hurry.
Though his numbers in the 2012 college season , Zunino’s professional debut in the low-A Northwestern League has gone . .373/.474/.736 well, in fact. So well that the Mariners are moving Zunino up to double-A this week, a very aggressive promotion indeed.
Word out of M’s camp is that Mike Zunino is headed to Double-A Jackson,