2022 MLB Mock Draft 3.0 -- Kiley McDaniel predicts the first two rounds

The 2022 MLB draft is just days away, and it's time for my third mock draft projecting the full 80-pick first day of this year's event.

The draft will take place July 17-19 in Los Angeles, and I'd estimate that later Friday and Saturday is when the final useful information will trickle out (day of buzz is useless misdirection), which will lead into a final Mock 3.1 here Sunday morning. Right now, teams are finalizing plans and putting out feelers about expectations with agents, with numbers and more concrete plans left for the weekend.

This is the order in which I think the picks will come off the board, while my rankings (linked below) is the order in which I'd pick the players.

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Druw Jones, CF, Wesleyan HS (GA), Vanderbilt commit

The buzz has been consistent for a couple of weeks now that Jones would be a full-freight option here, and Termarr Johnson is the most likely of the other options because he'd come with the biggest discount due to likely slipping to the sixth pick if he doesn't go here. I've been saying I think it's roughly a two-thirds chance of Jones and one-third chance of «other,» with Johnson the overwhelming choice, but Jackson Holliday (likely priced between Jones and Johnson) also mentioned as the other leading candidate. The savings to use later in the draft by going with Johnson could be $2 million or more and, at that point, even I would entertain taking my second-rated player (Johnson) instead of my top-rated player (Jones). Anyone outside of those three would be much harder to explain. The day they sign, I would have all three close on a top-100 of minor leaguers: Jones at 24th, Johnson at