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2009 MLB Draft: The NL West

With the signing of Manny Ramirez, we now have a near-complete idea of the compensatory picks in the 2009 MLB Draft.  Details of the first two rounds are after the jump.  Here is a summary:

Two rounds plus the supplemental round yields a total of 82 picks.  Here's a look at the picks of the NL West:

Club Total Picks Actual Picks
Diamondbacks 7 16, 17, 35, 41, 46, 62, 66
Rockies 4 11, 32, 34, 61
Dodgers 3 36, 58, 67
Padres 2 3, 54
Giants 2 6, 57

Arizona especially looks like it has a chance to restock it's farm system, with a robust seven of the first 66 draft picks.  The last time a team had seven picks so soon in the draft, a book was written about it!  Both Arizona and Colorado pick three times each before the Dodgers have their first pick, at #36.

Why do these early picks matter?  Let's take a look at the 40-man rosters of the NL West and see how many were drafted in the first two rounds of the draft (not necessarily by the current club):

Club 1st Round Supplemental 2nd Round Total
Rockies 7 3 3 13
Diamondbacks   7 0 4 11
Dodgers 6 3 2 11
Giants 3 3 4 10
Padres 4 1 4 9

That's 54 of a possible 200 roster spots (27%) filled with players drafted in the first two rounds of the MLB draft.  These picks are indeed important.  It should be interesting on June 9.

Star-divide

Round 1

1) Nationals

2) Mariners

3) Padres

4) Pirates

5) Orioles

6) Giants

7) Braves

8) Reds

9) Tigers

10) Nationals (for failure to sign 2008 #9 pick Aaron Crow)

11) Rockies

12) Royals

13) Athletics

14) Rangers

15) Indians

16) Diamondbacks

17) Diamondbacks (from Dodgers; Type A Orlando Hudson)

18) Marlins

19) Cardinals

20) Blue Jays

21) Astros

22) Twins

23) White Sox

24) Angels (from Mets; Type A Francisco Rodriguez)

25) Angels (from Yankees; Type A Mark Teixeira)

26) Brewers

27) Mariners (from Phillies; Type A Raul Ibanez)

28) Red Sox

29) Yankees (for failure to sign 2008 #28 Gerrit Cole)

30) Rays

31) Cubs

32) Rockies (from Angels, Type A Brian Fuentes)

Supplemental Round

33) Mariners (for losing Type A Ibanez)

34) Rockies (Type A Fuentes)

35) Diamondbacks (Type A Orlando Hudson)

36) Dodgers (Type A Derek Lowe)

37) Blue Jays (Type A A.J. Burnett)

38) White Sox (Type A Orlando Cabrera)

39) Brewers (Type A C.C. Sabathia)

40) Angels (Type A Teixeira)

41) Diamondbacks (Type A Juan Cruz)

42) Angels (Type A Rodriguez)

43) Reds (Type B Jeremy Affeldt)

44) Royals (Type B Mark Grudzielanek)*

45) Rangers (Type B Milton Bradley)

46) Diamondbacks (Type B Brandon Lyon)

47) Twins (Type B Dennys Reyes)

48) Brewers (Type B Brian Shouse)

49) Pirates (for failure to sign 2008 #48 Tanner Scheppers)

50) Red Sox (Type B Paul Byrd)*

51) Angels (Type B Jon Garland)

Round 2

52) Nationals

53) Mariners

54) Padres

55) Pirates

56) Orioles

57) Giants

58) Dodgers (from Braves; Type A Lowe)

59) Reds

60) Tigers

61) Rockies

62) Diamondbacks (from Royals; Type A Cruz)

63) White Sox (from Athletics; Type A Cabrera)

64) Rangers

65) Indians

66) Diamondbacks

67) Dodgers

68) Marlins

69) Cardinals

70) Blue Jays

71) Astros

72) Twins

73) White Sox

74) Mets

75) Brewers (from Yankees; Type A Sabathia)

76) Yankees (for failure to sign 2008 #75 Scott Bittle)

77) Brewers

78) Phillies

79) Red Sox

80) Rays

81) Cubs

82) Angels

*To date Grudzielanek, Reyes, and Byrd are all unsigned.  I also assumed the injured Ben Sheets would go unsigned before the draft.  If Sheets does sign somewhere, he would slot between the supplemental round picks for Juan Cruz and K-Rod.

UPDATE 3/5/09: Reyes just signed with the Cardinals.

 

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The one thing that makes me think that the Dbacks having seven picks this high might not have the impact that one would initially think is that the team seems to be having money issues. If that’s true, they’re probably willing to sacrifice some of the quality of those picks to get players that will sign at slot. Same goes for the Rockies. While the Dbacks might be able to get the same quality as, say, the Yankees for two or three of those, I doubt they’ll be able to take the best player on the board for all seven of those.

That being said, they’ve done a pretty good job in the past with the draft and them having so many high picks is a little unsettling… and better to be the Dodgers than the Brewers. No first rounders for losing Sabathia or Sheets – ouch!

by jinseattle on Mar 5, 2009 8:40 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

For our sake

lets hope so. That’s scary to see how many picks they have.

by Brendan Scolari on Mar 5, 2009 10:27 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Agree

McCourt has shown little interest in providing White/Ng with the tools to continue to develop the farm system. The budget is literally at the bottom of the barrel over the past 2 seasons and we seems relatively inactive internationally.

by kensai on Mar 5, 2009 4:16 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Real Baseball Intelligence

Real Baseball Intelligence (RBI), a leading resource in the evaluation of amateur baseball talent and draft coverage, has ranked the Top 200 draft prospects and offers dozens of scouting reports with video on its website, withthefirstpick.net

by Real Baseball Intelligence on Apr 1, 2009 9:54 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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