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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 ...
Since the institution of Major League Baseball's Rule 4 Draft, the Phillies have selected 51 players in its first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", [1] the Rule 4 Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its ...
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.
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 ...
The Braves have held the first overall pick twice; in 1978 they used it to select Horner, and in 1990 they chose Chipper Jones. Atlanta has made 13 selections in the supplemental round of the draft. They have also received three compensatory picks since the first draft in 1965.
List of Houston Astros first-round draft picks. Craig Biggio (1987) is the only first-round draft pick of the Astros with over 3000 career hits. The Houston Astros, originally called the "Colt .45s", are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Houston, Texas. They play in the American League West division.