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Checking in on the top 5 picks in last year’s baseball draft

La Costa Canyon baseball player Mickey Moniak puts on a Philadelphia Phillies cap just after it was announced that the Phillies had chosen Moniak with the top pick in the Major League Baseball draft, at Moniak's aunt's house in Carlsbad, Calif., on Thursday, June 9, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES La Costa Canyon baseball player Mickey Moniak puts on a Philadelphia Phillies cap just after it was announced that the Phillies had chosen Moniak with the top pick in the Major League Baseball draft, at Moniak's aunt's house in Carlsbad, Calif., on Thursday, June 9, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES

By Associated Press June 13, 2016 3 min read

In a year with no consensus top player, the Philadelphia Phillies led off Major League Baseball’s draft Thursday by taking Mickey Moniak, a high school outfielder from California.

It could be a while before we’ll have a sense of whether Moniak is worthy of that selection. Even the top picks need time to develop, and that certainly figures to be true of Moniak, who was the first prep outfielder taken No. 1 since Tampa Bay drafted Delmon Young in 2003.

For a sense of where Moniak and the other top picks might be a year from now, here’s a look at last season’s top five – and how they’re doing:

DANSBY SWANSON, SS, DIAMONDBACKS

After taking Swanson with the No. 1 pick last year, Arizona traded him to Atlanta in an offseason deal that sent Shelby Miller to the Diamondbacks. Swanson posted a .967 OPS in 21 games with Class A Carolina this season, then was promoted to Double-A Mississippi at the end of April.