Draft play-by-play

[DirtyKash]

Let's do some play-by-play for today's draft which starts at 2 pm eastern.
The Rays have said that they will take Tim Beckham at #1.


1st Round
1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Tim Beckham, SS, Georgia
2 Pittsburgh Pirates - Pedro Alvarez, 3B, Vanderbilt
3 Kansas City Royals - Eric Hosmer, 1B, High school
4 Baltimore Orioles - Brian Matusz, LHP, San Diego
5 San Francisco Giants - Buster Posey, C, Florida State
6 Florida Marlins - Kyle Skipworth, C, High school
7 Cincinnati Reds - Yonder Alonso, 1B, Miami
8 Chicago White Sox - Gordon Beckham, SS, Georgia
9 Washington Nationals - Aaron Crow, RHP, Missouri
10 Houston Astros - Jason Castro, C, Stanford
11 Texas Rangers - Justin Smoak, 1B, South Carolina
12 Oakland Athletics - Jemile Weeks, 2B, Miami
13 St. Louis Cardinals - Brett Wallace, 3B, Arizona State
14 Minnesota Twins - Aaron Hicks, OF/RHP, High school
15 Los Angeles Dodgers - Ethan Martin, RHP/3B, High school
16 Milwaukee Brewers - Brett Lawrie, IF/C, Brookswood
17 Toronto Blue Jays - David Cooper, 1B, California
18 New York Mets - Ike Davis, 1B/OF, Arizona State
19 Chicago Cubs - Andrew Cashner, P, TCU
20 Seattle Mariners - Josh Fields, P, Georgia
21 Detroit Tigers - Ryan Perry, RHP, Arizona
22 New York Mets - Reese Havens, SS, South Carolina
23 San Diego Padres - Allan Dykstra, 1B, Wake Forest
24 Philadelphia Phillies - Anthony Hewitt, SS, High school
25 Colorado Rockies - Christian Friedrich, LHP, Eastern Kentucky
26 Arizona Diamondbacks - Daniel Schlereth, LHP, Arizona
27 Minnesota Twins - Carlos Gutierrez, RHP, Miami
28 New York Yankees - Gerrit Cole, RHP, High school
29 Cleveland Indians - Lonnie Chisenhall, 3B, Pitt CC
30 Boston Red Sox - Casey Kelly, RHP/SS, High school

[Bon Bon]

Could be a great pick for the Rays. I hope the Redsox go with a Starter, but they have a lot of picks ahead of them. RHP Lance Lynn from the U. of Mississippi is who they are targeting at this moment.

[redsrbetter]

I am getting excited! I took off the first half of work for this. Lets do this!

[redsrbetter]

Tim Beckham is said to be going to the Rays...
Man their system is so stacked.

[browntown653]

I have no ****ing clue if any of these players are going to be good, and I don't think anyone else does, so the MLB draft is a waste of time to me.

[redsrbetter]

I have been paying particular attention to the top 10 (or so) draft spects. I am very excited about this. As a Yankee fan, I would be excited as well as the Boras clients usually fall to teams that will pay.

[browntown653]

The thing with me is, I watch a lot of the guys who get drafted in the NBA in college, I watch a lot of the guys who get drafted in the NFL in college, but college baseball is almost never on TV and forget about high school. So I don't know anything about anyone really.

[redsrbetter]

I get a lot of college baseball. When I ordered the NFL Network; I got like 3 college sports channels that came with it.

[redsrbetter]

TB is now on the clock...

[DirtyKash]

Hah, lots of Rays fans in attendance to watch the draft.

[redsrbetter]

Place looks tiny, like a High School gym.

[Bon Bon]

Place is bigger than my highschool gym that is for sure. The thing is with this draft it does seem like a lot of these top picks in these drafts are rocketing faster and faster to the Major Leagues. The Tampa Bay Rays are now on the clock.

[DirtyKash]

Selig is talking about parity in baseball today. Shoot me now.

[Bon Bon]

I think every Rays fan has showed up for this draft. It seems like a better turnout for the Rays than at there actually games.

[Bon Bon]

Timothy Beckham. I wonder if he will bend the baseball for the Rays in years to come.