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The draft order was determined by the 2011 Major League Baseball season standings. With the worst record in 2011, the Houston Astros received the first pick. [2] Also, teams can lose draft picks for signing certain free agents, while teams losing free agents will receive draft picks as compensation.
The 2012 season also marked the 50th anniversary for the New York Mets and the Houston Astros, but the 51st season for both teams. The Mets began play four years after the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants moved west in 1958, leaving New York City with only one MLB team in the Yankees.
The postseason began on October 5, 2012, and ended on October 28, 2012, with the Giants sweeping the Tigers in the 2012 World Series. It was the second title in three years for the Giants and their seventh overall. This is the last postseason in which the defending champions made the postseason in a leap year. [5] [6] [7]
March 2 – Major League Baseball expands its playoff format to 10 teams for the 2012 season, adding a second wild card in each league. The decision establishes a new one-game, wild-card round in each league between the teams with the best records. [7] March 16 – Andy Pettitte comes out of retirement to a $2.5 million deal with the New York ...
The Houston Astros 2012 season was the 51st and final season for the franchise in the National League in Houston, their 48th as the Astros and their 13th season at Minute Maid Park. This season was also the Astros ' last in the National League.
On March 1, 2012, the Cardinals announced the extension of catcher Yadier Molina's expiring $7 mil. contract at the end of 2012, for 5 years (with a 6th year $15 mil. option for 2018) for $75 mil., making him the second-highest-paid catcher (to Twins catcher Joe Mauer) in all of baseball. He leads all catchers with 39 pickoffs since 2005, and ...
2024 MLB draft prospect promotion incentive picks. 31. Arizona Diamondbacks: OF Ryan Waldschmidt, Kentucky. 32. Baltimore Orioles: SS Griff O'Ferrall, Virginia. 2024 MLB draft compensation picks . 33.
Career statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet "Mark Appel Profile – Stanford University's Official Athletic Site". Gostanford.com. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012.