Colin Cowherd Insists The Angels Need To Get As Many First Round Picks As Possible For Shohei Ohtani, Then Learns On-Air You Can't Trade Draft Picks In Baseball

Poor Colin. They put this guy on the air and told him to talk about baseball with NFL training camps starting up. This wasn't his fault. My guy is locked in for football season and he's supposed to talk about the MLB trade deadline?

Colin was so excited for the Angels to stockpile a hoard of picks for Shohei and then had it all come crumbling down live a few seconds later.

We went from:

1) Five first round picks, No. 1 and No. 3 prospects and "two solid starters"

to

2) Three first round picks and top three prospects

to

3) "Hold on, it says here you can't trade draft picks ... So you'd get the Yankees' three best prospects? I'm not doing it for that."

Well Colin, it's that or let Shohei walk for nothing in the offseason — which I do not put past the Angels given their long history of incompetence, but would be a horrific decision. Getting pretty much any team's three best prospects should net you at bare minimum one guy who becomes a solid MLB starter.

I'm actually curious how much MLB teams would even want to trade draft picks if it was allowed, given the volatility of baseball prospects. If I'm trading a guy like Shohei Ohtani, I want to get guys back that I've at least seen play well at some level of professional baseball.

I guess Sam Presti shouldn't be plotting a move to Major League Baseball any time soon.