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List of Major League Baseball first-round draft picks. Ken Griffey Jr., the 1987 first round pick of the Seattle Mariners. Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball, and is the organization that operates the National League and the American League. In 2000, the two leagues were officially ...
Ken Griffey Jr., the 1987 first overall draft pick The first-year player draft, also known as the Rule 4 Draft, is the primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to Major League Baseball (MLB) teams.
Four first-round picks have won championships with the franchise: Thurman Munson (1977 and 1978), Derek Jeter (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009), Phil Hughes (2009), and Joba Chamberlain (2009). Munson and Jeter have both also served as team captains for the Yankees. [4] Derek Jeter is the only one of the Yankees' first-round picks to have been ...
Four of the Cubs' first-round draft picks— Javier Báez (2011), Albert Almora (2012), Kris Bryant (2013), and Kyle Schwarber (2014)—were on the 2016 World Series roster. No pick has been elected to the Hall of Fame. Bryant is the Cubs' only first-round pick to be named Most Valuable Player in either the National or American League, winning ...
Nick Markakis (2003) was one of four players drafted by the Orioles from the state of Georgia. Matt Wieters (2007) is the first of four consecutive players drafted by the Orioles with a pick in the top five. Brian Matusz (2008) was one of nine left-handed pitchers drafted by the Orioles. Year.
Picks. Jeff Burroughs was the number one overall draft pick in 1969. David Clyde was the number one overall draft pick in 1973. Ron Darling (1980) is the only player drafted by the Rangers in the first round from an Ivy League school. R. A. Dickey (1996) is one of two players drafted by the Rangers from the University of Tennessee.
Picks. Bobby Valentine (1968) is the only player drafted by the Dodgers in the first round from Connecticut. Rick Sutcliffe (1974) is one of three players taken by the Dodgers in the first round who went on to win the Rookie of the Year award. James Loney (2002) is one of six players from Texas the Dodgers have drafted in the first round.
1965 Major League Baseball draft. The 1965 Major League Baseball draft is the first year in which a draft took place for Major League Baseball. It was held on June 8–9 in New York City. [1] In Major League Baseball's first Free Agent Amateur Draft, the Kansas City Athletics selected Arizona State sophomore Rick Monday as the number one pick. [2]