The Major League Baseball Draft

We all know that Stephen Strasburg is going #1 to the Washington Nationals, but after that can you name a single player that could be drafted without using Google. I did not think so because I can not even think a player.

Why is the baseball draft not covered the way the NFL or NBA drafts are covered. Both of those drafts have analysis from the time the college season is over. Lets take a look at some reasons why the Major League Baseball Draft is not covered as much:

• If a team does not sign its #1 draft pick from the year before they get a compensation pick in the first round, this is why the Nationals have the #1 and #10 pick this year. So in reality if none of the teams sign their #1 draft pick then there could be 60 total picks in the first round and you thought the NFL first round was long.
• How many first round draft picks are playing in the Majors currently?- 1 from 2008 (Daniel Schlereth from Arizona), 2 from 2007 (David Price from Tampa Bay and Matt Weiters from Baltimore), 5 from 2006 (Evan Longria from Tampa Bay, Andrew Miller from Detroit, Clayton Kershaw from the Dodgers, Tim Lincecum from San Francisco, and Max Scherzer from Arizona). In all over three years there are a total of 8 players out of the 90 selected in the first round playing Major League Baseball.
• The draft lasts a total of 3 days, a trip to Vegas would be much better.
• Most of the players drafted went to a college you never heard of or came from a Junior College or straight from high school.

Just make sure you wait another 3-5 years to see these players in the Major Leagues and then you can start to follow what they did.