1. Washington – Steven Strasburg, RHP, San Diego State
2. Seattle – Dustin Ackley, OF/1B, North Carolina
3. San Diego – Donavan Tate, OF, Cartersville HS (GA)
4. Pittsburgh – Aaron Crow, RHP, Ft. Worth Cats
5. Baltimore – Kyle Gibson, RHP, Missouri
6. San Francisco – Tyler Matzek, LHP, Capistrano Valley HS (CA)
7. Atlanta – Zack Wheeler, RHP, East Paulding HS (GA)
8. Cincinnati – Tanner Scheppers, RHP, St. Paul Saints
9. Detroit – Jacob Turner, RHP, Westminster Christian Academy (MO)
10. Washington – Mike Trout, OF, Millville HS (NJ)
11. Colorado – Tim Wheeler, OF, Sacramento State
12. Kansas City – Grant Green, SS, USC
13. Oakland – Mike Leake, RHP, Arizona State
14. Texas – Shelby Miller, RHP, Brownwood HS (TX)
15. Cleveland – Alex White, RHP, North Carolina
16. Arizona – Rex Brothers, LHP, Lipscomb
17. Arizona – Bobby Borchering, 3B, Bishop Verot HS (FL)
18. Florida – Chad James, LHP, Yukon HS (OK)
19. St. Louis – Mike Minor, LHP, Vanderbilt
20. Toronto – Chad Jenkins, RHP, Kennesaw State
21. Houston – Matt Hobgood, RHP, Norco HS (CA)
22. Minnesota – Jiovanni Mier, SS, Bonita HS (CA)
23. Chicago (AL) – Everett Williams, OF, McCallum HS (TX)
24. Los Angeles (AL) – Max Stassi, C, Yuba City HS (CA)
25. Los Angeles (AL) – Tyler Skaggs, LHP, Santa Monica HS (CA)
26. Milwaukee – Drew Storen, RHP, Stanford
27. Seattle – AJ Pollock, OF, Notre Dame
28. Boston – Matt Purke, LHP, Klein HS (TX)
29. New York (AL) – Tony Sanchez, C, Boston College
30. Tampa Bay – Wil Myers, C, Wesleyan Christian Academy (NC)
31. Chicago (NL) – Eric Arnett, RHP, Indiana
32. Colorado – Garrett Gould, RHP, Maize HS (KS)
Supplemental First Round
33. Seattle – Kyle Heckathorn, RHP, Kennesaw State
34. Colorado – Rich Poythress, 1B, Georgia
35. Arizona – Billy Bullock, RHP, Florida
36. Los Angeles (NL) – Andy Oliver, LHP, Oklahoma State
37. Toronto – Jared Mitchell, OF, LSU
38. Chicago (AL) – Brett Jackson, OF, California
39. Milwaukee – Matt Davidson, 3B, Yucaipa HS (CA)
40. Los Angeles (AL) – Sam Dyson, RHP, South Carolina
41. Arizona – Brody Colvin, RHP, St. Thomas More HS (LA)
42. Los Angeles (AL) – Mychal Givens, SS/RHP, Plant HS (FL)
43. Cincinnati – James Paxton, LHP, Kentucky
44. Texas – Reymond Fuentes, OF, Callego HS (PR)
45. Arizona -Marc Krauss, OF, Ohio
46. Minnesota – Zack Von Rosenberg, RHP, Zachary HS (LA)
47. Milwaukee – Alex Wilson, RHP, Texas A&M
48. Los Angeles (AL) – Kent Matthes, OF, Alabama
49. Pittsburgh – Madison Younginer, RHP, Mauldin HS (SC)
Second Round
50. Washington – Victor Black, RHP, Dallas Baptist
51. Seattle – Keyvius Sampson, RHP, Forest HS (FL)
52. San Diego – Brad Boxberger, RHP, USC
53. Pittsburgh – Jeff Malm, 1B, Bishop Gorman HS (NV)
54. Baltimore – David Renfroe, SS, South Panola HS (MS)
55. San Francisco – Joe Kelly, RHP, UC Riverside
56. Los Angeles (NL) – Nick Franklin, SS, Lake Brantley HS (FL)
57. Cincinnati – Jason Kipnis, OF, Arizona State
58. Detroit – Ben Tootle, RHP, Jacksonville State
59. Colorado – Aaron Miller, LHP, Baylor
60. Arizona – Angelo Songco, OF, Loyola Marymount
61. Chicago (AL) – Matt Bashore, LHP, Indiana
62. Texas – Slade Heathcott, OF, Texas HS (TX)
63. Cleveland – Chris Dominguez, 3B, Louisville
64. Arizona – Ryan Buch, RHP, Monmouth
65. Los Angeles (NL) – Brett Wallach, RHP, Orange Coast JC (CA)
66. Florida – Billy Hamilton, SS, Taylorsville HS (MS)
67. St. Louis – A.J. Morris, RHP, Kansas State
68. Toronto – Evan Chambers, OF, Hillsborough JC (FL)
69. Houston – LeVon Washington, OF, Buchholz HS (FL)
70. Minnesota – Jake Eliopoulos, LHP, Sacred Heart Catholic HS (ON)
71. Chicago (AL) – Blake Smith, RHP/OF, California
72. New York (NL) – Kentrail Davis, OF, Tennessee
73. Milwaukee – Daniel Fields, SS, U. of Detroit Jesuit HS (MI)
74. Milwaukee – Jeff Kobernus, 2B, California
75. Philadelphia – Brian Goodwin, OF, Rocky Mount HS (NC)
76. New York (AL) – Steven Matz, LHP, Ward Melville HS (NY)
77. Boston – Brad Stillings, RHP, Kent State
78. Tampa Bay – Jake Barrett, RHP, Desert Ridge HS (AZ)
79. Chicago (NL) – Chris Dwyer, LHP, Clemson
80. Los Angeles (AL) – Brooks Pounders, RHP, Temecula Valley HS (CA)
Third Round
81. Washington – D.J. LeMahieu, 2B/SS, LSU
82. Seattle – Josh Phegley, C, Indiana
83. San Diego – David Hale, RHP, Princeton
84. Pittsburgh – Mike Ohlman, C, Lakewood Ranch HS (FL)
85. Baltimore – Garett Richards, RHP, Oklahoma
86. San Francisco – Justin Marks, LHP, Louisville
87. Atlanta – Randal Grichuk, OF, Lamar Consolidated HS (TX)
88. Cincinnati – Kyle Seager, 3B, North Carolina
89. Detroit – Mike Belfiore, LHP, Boston College
90. Colorado – Brooks Raley, LHP, Texas A&M
91. Kansas City – Andrew Susac, C, Jesuit HS (CA)
92. Oakland – David Holmberg, LHP, Port Charlotte HS (FL)
93. Texas – James Jones, LHP, Long Island
94. Cleveland – Ryan Jackson, SS, Miami
95. Arizona – Jason Stoffel, RHP, Arizona
96. Los Angeles (NL) – Todd Glaesmann, OF, Midway HS (TX)
97. Florida – Dane Williams, RHP, Archbishop McCarthy HS (FL)
98. St. Louis – Tommy Mendonca, 3B, Fresno State
99. Toronto – Andrew Doyle, RHP, Oklahoma
100. Houston – Matt den Dekker, OF, Florida
101. Minnesota – Jabari Blash, OF, Miami-Dade JC (FL)
102. Chicago (AL) – Cameron Garfield, C, Murrieta Valley HS (CA)
103. New York (NL) – Steve Baron, C, John A. Ferguson HS (FL)
104. Toronto – Chris Owings, SS, Gilbert HS (SC)
105. Milwaukee – Eric Smith, RHP, Rhode Island
106. Philadelphia – Austin Maddox, C, Eagle’s View Academy (FL)
107. Boston – Kendal Volz, RHP, Baylor
108. Tampa Bay – Tyler Kehrer, LHP, Eastern Illinois
109. Chicago (NL) – Jeremy Hezelbaker, OF, Ball State
110. Los Angeles (AL) – Bryan Berglund, RHP, Royal HS (CA)
Supplemental Third Round
111. Houston – Dylan Floro, RHP, Buhach Colony HS (CA)
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You guys should date your articles. With a time-sensitive piece like this, it’s hard to get too excited without knowing the date the story was published.
Also, this piece would mean a lot more if some reasoning was provided. At a bare minimum, you need an intro loosely explaining your methodology.
Also, the rotation top story area on the home page could use some work.
It’s hard to nail down design — I’m constantly trying to think of ways to improve ours — but lots of white space + no teaser text + low-quality images = uneventful home page. I’m sure you guys are working on it.
The photos that you’re using aren’t that great either…further brought down by the halo photo credits. I’d be happy to share some of my prospect photos with firstinning.com. Just let me know who you’re after.
(I say all this because I care about FI.com. It’s nice to see that you guys are trying to improve your product.)
Thanks for the input Adam. If you click the link to the blog listed by my name at the bottom of the piece, you’ll see that my blog is on its seventh version of a mock draft, and because this one was extended by a round and published all at once, I withheld individual comments in favor of answering questions and comments on specific picks or teams. My previous mocks have individual comments, and the final one coming out Tuesday morning before the draft will also have comments. This was just my first mapping of how teams might group picks based on their trends. My methodology and such was explained both in my blog and on MinorLeagueBall.com, where I published the first few versions of the mock. I’ll probably re-write that intro in future articles on here. The problem was that this was just simply moved from my blog to here, so the context might be a little off. That will be fixed in the future.
This version of the mock was published on June 1.
Once again, thanks for the reply and please bear with some of the growing pains.
-Andy
Adam, when do you see the Belfiore kid from BC being picked? Did you see his performance an overuse vs. Texas? Played the first 9 plus innings at 1B, then came on in relief for over 9 innnings 120+ pitches, had not pitched more than 2 innings all year. Had several work-outs scheduled this week that had to be cancelled…
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Adam, there is something coming soon (in the next couple of weeks hopefully) for that white space, I shot you an email about photos as well.