In the 10th round of the MLB draft today, the Mets picked a right-handed pitcher named Akeel Morris out of Charlotte Amalie High School in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

I don’t know anything about Morris beyond what’s on his BeRecruited.com profile: He’s 6’1″, 170 pounds, threw 44 innings with a 2.65 ERA this season (or in travel ball, or somewhere) and he’s committed to Connors State University.

If Morris signs and eventually reaches the Majors as a pitcher, he will become only the second player from the U.S. Virgin Islands to do so. Al McBean — who went to the same high school as Morris — pitched in 409 games with the Pirates, Dodgers and Padres in the 60s and 70s.

There have been 10 position players in the Majors from the U.S. Virgin Islands, but only three since the turn of the millenium: Midre Cummings, Callix Crabbe and monstrous Quadruple-A masher Calvin Pickering. And all three went to high school in the continental United States.

So here’s rooting for Akeel Morris to help make baseball just a little bit more global. And if it benefits the Mets along the way, you know, good.

Somehow I never realized how much of a crapshoot the actual game of craps is until this weekend, when I stood near a table in Atlantic City and learned the rules of craps. It’s really just betting on dice rolls. Total crapshoot. It’s not just a clever name.

So it’s not really fair to call the MLB draft a crapshoot, because it’s not like the Mets could choose just anyone with that seventh overall pick and expect equal odds of a reasonable return. Matt Harvey has a much better chance of turning into a legitimate Major Leaguer than I do because I don’t throw a fastball in the high 90s. So it’s a good thing the Mets didn’t draft me.

But since baseball players are drafted from all sorts of different levels and leagues, there’s no easy way to compare skill levels and obviously no perfect way to project how good a player will become. So yeah, once scouts have poured over thousands of amateur players and identified the ones worth drafting in the first couple of rounds, it does a bit random as to which ones pan out.

Teams and general managers who draft players that become good Major Leaguers are generally credited as good drafters, and there are very likely some scouts with a better sense of projectable Major League talent than others. But such a slim percentage of drafted players become Major Leaguers and even fewer become Major League stars, so it’s damn near impossible to say for certain that any team consistently drafts well. We can point to teams with good draft histories and we can identify the teams that seem to employ the best strategies. That’s really it, though.

For a point of reference, check out the first basemen drafted in the first round in 2008. The Mets selected Ike Davis that year, a pick some fans (predictably) grumbled about but one that seems to be working out.

Davis was one of six first basemen taken in the first round. The first, Eric Hosmer, was out of high school and appears pretty talented, though he’s still a ways off. The second, much-hyped University of Miami product Yonder Alonso, has a .715 OPS across Double- and Triple-A this season.

The third, University of South Carolina’s Justin Smoak, raked in Triple-A earlier this season and is currently starting at first for the Rangers, though without as much success as Davis to date. David Cooper, drafted one pick before Davis out of Cal, has a .675 OPS in Double-A.

Four picks after Davis, the Padres took Allan Dykstra, who is sporting a .698 OPS in High A.

In other words, they’re all over the map. As of now, Hosmer, Smoak and Davis appear to have been good picks and Alonso, Cooper and Dykstra bad ones. So we can credit the Royals, Rangers and Mets for their talent scouting, or we can guess they just got lucky. And really, we still don’t know: All these guys are still young; any of the former three could collapse and any of the latter three could explode.

That’s a long and silly way of saying it’s sort of pointless to get too excited one way or the other about Matt Harvey. I understand that drafting college pitchers is a good strategy, though I don’t know that I’d point to Harvey’s history of 150+ pitch outings as a good sign (as many have). You can’t teach a 98-mph fastball, though, so that’s good.

What I know for certain is that he had an awesome mustache, so, you know, suck on that Chris Sale. Also, I will hold out some slim hope that he breaks with tradition and chooses Weird Al Yankovic’s deep track “Harvey the Wonder Hamster” as his warmup music. And it’d be cool if he’s good, too.

The Mets are 22-9 at home and 8-18 on the road. That’s a big split, no doubt.

So what’s happening?

I’m going to go with “nothing.” Or at least nothing important or lasting.

Jerry Manuel has suggested that the Mets’ hitters tense up on the road because they’re eager to maximize their home run totals while they have the opportunity to do so out of spacious Citi Field. That’s an interesting theory and one that’s impossible to disprove, but it argues that the psychological factors are enough to outweigh the park factors, and that seems like a stretch.

Also, neither Manuel’s explanation nor Charlie Manuel’s suggestion that the Mets are stealing signs covers why the team’s pitchers would be performing so much better in Citi Field. Certainly the park has something to do with it, but the Mets have a 2.85 home ERA and a 5.22 road ERA, likely too big a split to be explained away by the big park.

And though it would be reasonable to guess that Mets pitchers felt more confident pounding the strike zone in Citi Field, where they run less risk of gopherballs, there’s little evidence to support that case: The Mets have actually walked opposing batters at a slightly higher rate at home than on the road. They’ve just been hit much harder on the road, to the tune of more hits and home runs.

In general, teams win more games and players perform slightly better at home than on the road. That’s no surprise: They take advantage of the particulars of the familiar parks, plus the comforts of their own homes and beds and clubhouses and everything else.

And looking around the league, there are other teams with pretty strong distinctions in their home and road records: The Braves are 19-6 at home and 14-18 on the road; the Rangers are 20-10 at home and 10-16 on the road.

The Mets’ split is a bit more extreme than those, for sure. They have the most home wins in baseball and have won only 31 percent of their games on the road, so it is natural to try look for a reason and create some story about what’s happening.

But it’s just randomness again. Give it enough time and it will balance out. As long as the Mets are winning more games than they’re losing, it doesn’t really matter where it happens.