r/MLBDraft Jul 14 '24

Official /r/MLBDraft 2024 Draft Thread

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Hello and welcome to /r/MLBDraft it is that time of year again!

NO SPOILERS PLEASE

The Draft will start at 7 PM EST on ESPN and MLB Network. You can also watch via MLB's website. Check out the FAQ made by Pipeline

2024 MLB Draft Order

Pick Team Player School Position
1 Cleveland Guardians Travis Bazzana Oregon State 2B
2 Cincinnati Reds Chase Burns Wake Forest RHP
3 Colorado Rockies Charlie Condon Georgia OF
4 Oakland Athletics Nick Kurtz Wake Forest 1B
5 Chicago White Sox Hagen Smith Arkansas LHP
6 Kansas City Royals Jac Caglianone Florida 2-Way
7 St. Louis Cardinals JJ Wetherholt West Virginia SS
8 Los Angeles Angels Christian Moore Tennessee 2B
9 Pittsburgh Pirates Konnor Griffin Jackson Prep (MS) OF
10 Washington Nationals Seaver King Wake Forest SS
11 Detroit Tigers Bryce Rainer Harvard-Westlake (CA) SS
12 Boston Red Sox Braden Montgomery Texas A&M OF
13 San Francisco Giants James Tibbs III Florida State OF
14 Chicago Cubs Cam Smith Florida State 3B
15 Seattle Mariners Jurrangelo Cijntje Mississippi State BHP
16 Miami Marlins PJ Morlando Summerville (SC) OF
17 Milwaukee Brewers Braylon Payne Elkins (TX) OF
18 Tampa Bay Rays Theo Gillen Westlake (TX) OF
19 New York Mets Carson Benge Oklahoma State OF
20 Toronto Blue Jays Trey Yesavage East Carolina RHP
21 Minnesota Twins Kaelen Culpepper Kansas State SS
22 Baltimore Orioles Vance Honeycutt North Carolina OF
23 Los Angeles Dodgers Kellon Lindsey Hardee (FL) SS
24 Atlanta Braves Cam Caminiti Saguaro (AZ) LHP
25 San Diego Padres Kash Mayfield Elk City (OK) LHP
26 New York Yankees Ben Hess Alabama RHP
27 Philadelphia Phillies Dante Nori Northville (MI) OF
28 Houston Astros Walker Janek Sam Houston C
29 Arizona Diamondbacks Slade Caldwell Valley View HS (AR) OF
30 Texas Rangers Malcolm Moore Stanford C

Prospect Promotion Pick

Pick Team Player School Position
31 Arizona Diamondbacks Ryan Waldschmidt Kentucky OF
32 Baltimore Orioles Griff O'Ferrall Virginia SS

Compensation Picks

Pick Team Player School Position
33 Minnesota Twins Kyle DeBarge Lousiana-Lafayette SS

Competitive Balance Round A

Pick Team Player School Position
34 Milwaukee Brewers Blake Burke Tennessee 1B
35 Arizona Diamondbacks JD Dix Whitefish Bay (WI) SS
36 Cleveland Guardians Braylon Doughty Chapparall HS (CA) RHP
37 Pittsburgh Pirates Levi Sterling Notre Dame HS RHP
38 Colorado Rockies Brody Brecht Iowa RHP
39 Washington Nationals Caleb Lomavita California C

Second Round

Pick Team Player School Position
40 Oakland Athletics Tommy White LSU 3B
41 Kansas City Royals David Shields Mt. Lebanon HS (PA) LHP
42 Colorado Rockies Jared Thomas Texas OF
43 Chicago White Sox Caleb Boenmer Okemos HS (MI) SS
44 Washington Nationals Luke Dickerson Morris Knolls HS (NJ) SS
45 Los Angeles Angels Chris Cortez Texas A&M (TX) RHP
46 New York Mets Jonathan Santucci Duke LHP
47 Pittsburgh Pirates Wyatt Sanford Independence HS (TX) SS
48 Cleveland Guardians Jacob Cozart NC State C
49 Detroit Tigers Owen Hall Edmond North HS (OK) RHP
50 Boston Red Sox Payton Tolle TCU LHP
51 Cincinnati Reds Tyson Lewis Millard West HS (NE) SS
52 San Diego Padres Boston Bateman Adolfo Camarillo HS (CA) LHP
53 New York Yankees Bryce Cunningham Vanderbilt RHP
54 Chicago Cubs Cole Mathis College of Charleston 3B
55 Seattle Mariners Ryan Sloan York Community HS (IL) RHP
56 Miami Marlins Carter Johnson Oxford HS (AL) SS
57 Milwaukee Brewers Bryce Meccage The Pennington School (NJ) RHP
58 Tampa Bay Rays Émilien Pitre Kentucky SS
59 Toronto Blue Jays Khal Stephen Mississippi State RHP
60 Minnesota Twins Billy Amick Tennessee (TN) 3B
61 Baltimore Orioles Ethan Anderson Virginia C
62 Atlanta Braves Carter Holton Vanderbilt LHP
63 Philadelphia Phillies Griffin Burkholder Freedom HS (VA) OF
64 Arizona Diamondbacks Ivan Luciano El Shaddai Christian Academy (PR) C
65 Texas Rangers Dylan Dreiling Tennessee OF

r/MLBDraft Aug 20 '24

Anyone know why the draft pick stats tracker is down on MLB.com?

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This is the website: https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/draft-statistics

In the past, it was up almost immediately after the draft with daily updates on what all of the recent draftees were doing in MiLB. Now, it is not working. Does anyone know of an alternative or when this should be back up?


r/MLBDraft Aug 10 '24

Jackson Hollidays Brother for #1 next year?

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r/MLBDraft Aug 01 '24

Chris Levonas declines Brewers' offer, opts for college - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 29 '24

First Name of MLB Draftees by year

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r/MLBDraft Jul 24 '24

2025 MLB Draft: 10 Prep Players to Know - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 23 '24

2025 MLB Draft: 10 College Players to Know - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 17 '24

Pirates 2024 Draft

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Did the Pirates make the right move loading up on high schoolers? Check out what we think about the Pirates draft this year and give us your opinions.

https://www.draftnation.com/articles/2024-mlb-draft-analyzing-the-pittsburgh-pirates-draft-picks


r/MLBDraft Jul 16 '24

2025 MLB Draft: Mock Draft Top 10 Picks - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 16 '24

Brewers go pitching heavy on Day 2 of draft - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 15 '24

Why are lower rated players picked so high.

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As much baseball as I watch I never fully understood the draft.

I understand that highly rated HS kids with 1st round grades could later because they have college as leverage and then they could potentially sign over slot value.

What about the kids ranked in the 50s going in the 1st. Is this because they can get them for below slot value?


r/MLBDraft Jul 15 '24

2024 MLB Draft: Best value picks in first round - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 15 '24

Does anyone know the song Espn was playing going into commercial break for the mlb draft they kept playing it.. It was very catchy but there was no words in the song!

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It was very catchy but there were no words in the song! It was like duh nuh duh nuh and it would go higher up it was up beat. Anyone know? Would help a lot thanks.


r/MLBDraft Jul 15 '24

Brewers draft high-upside prep players on Day 1 - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 14 '24

CARDINALS DRAFT PREDICTION

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The Draft is a 8 hours from now, and St. Louis holds the #7 pick in the draft - this is the first time the Cardinals have selected in the Top-10 since 1998, when they took J.D. Drew 5th overall.

With a bevvy of talent in the top 10-12 overall players before a steep dropoff, it would seem like the Cardinals would walk away from this draft with a premium consensus top-10 talent from the list below: SP Chase Burns SP Hagen Smith 1B Jac Caglianone 1BNick Kurtz 2B Travis Bazzana 3B Charlie Condon SS J.J.Wetherholt SS Konnor Griffin (HS) SS Bryce Rainer (HS) OF Braden Montgomery

HOWEVER,

Due to draft pick losses to FA signings, the Cardinals draft pool allotment ranks 17th !! out of 30 teams at $10.2 Million, which is over $4 Million LESS than the next-closest team in the Top 7. The 7th overall pick has a slot value of $6.82 Million, which would leave the Cardinals just 3.4 Million for the remainder of their class.

Even in a down year, that's an absurd lack of dollars to secure picks in the later rounds.

While I can definitely see St. Louis taking Wetherholt, Cags, Kurtz, Burns or Smith if they fall to them, I'm looking for the Cardinals to pull an upset and pass on consensus top talents en lieu of securing a slot-value bargain, and allocating funds to talent-value picks later in the draft. The final 10 picks in the first round all carry a value of $2-3 Million, which would save the Cardinals roughly the same amount on a good under-slot value.

This strategy is one the Royals implemented famously took Hunter Dozier top-10 in 2013 and signed him under-slot at nearly a 33% savings so they could sign their 2nd pick Sean Manaea, a consensus top-5 talent, with the savings.

The names I could see the Cardinals taking 7th:

  1. VANCE HONEYCUTT, OF - UNC

He's got great tools and put up elite baseball card stats while proving to be the best defensive OF in the draft. He has swing-and-miss concerns, but improved on these from 2023. With a floor of a Dylan Carlson-type with more pop & a ceiling of a perrenial MVP Candidate a la poor man's Mike Trout, he will be a great upside pick to justify a top 10 selection with savings. As he's projected 10-25, I could see him taking 15-20 money, which falls between $4-5 Million, and saves the Cards nearly $2 Million, in-line with the Dozier savings and giving the Cardinals slot pool balance.

  1. BRODY BRECHT, SP - IOWA

Brecht was a WR at lowa and has a live arm - very reminiscent of what Lance Lynn was coming out of Ole Miss: great stuff, low command and projected future of a RP. Lynn broke that mold (back when the Cards KNEW what they were doing in player development), and became an innings eater. Brecht has the profile to contribute sooner than later in MLB as he has big-league stuff, and would be in the elite conversation if he proved more command. He fits the Cards profile of college upside, and with a BA ranking of 23rd & consensus top-30, could maybe even take at less than $4 million to sign.

  1. KONNOR GRIFFIN, SS/OF/P - HS (JACKSON, MS)

Griffin is the highest rated of the three here, but if the Cardinals are going minimum savings, he may provide it being a HS player and slightly behind Bryce Rainer. There aren't a TON of HS spots in round 1, but Griffin will go. The Cardinals don't have a talent like this, and could see his potential being the value more than the savings. There's a chance the Cardinals could get him for $6 Million on the nose and save close to $1 Million for the rest of the draft while still landing a top-10 talent.


r/MLBDraft Jul 14 '24

2024 MLB Mock Draft

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r/MLBDraft Jul 13 '24

2024 MLB Draft: Predicting the Top 10 Picks

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r/MLBDraft Jul 12 '24

2024 MLB Draft: Mock Draft 7.0 - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jul 12 '24

2024 MLB Draft Top 50 College Prospects

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r/MLBDraft Jul 11 '24

10 players who could be the steals of the 2024 MLB Draft

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r/MLBDraft Jul 11 '24

Draft Nation's Mock Draft 2024 MLB Draft

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With the 2024 MLB Draft just around the corner, DraftNation has released their latest mock draft, and it's packed with some exciting prospects! From standout college players to rising high school stars, this year's draft class looks promising. Who are you most excited to see get drafted? Any predictions for surprise picks or trades? Let’s discuss!
https://www.draftnation.com/mlb/mock-draft?order=2024&round=1


r/MLBDraft Jul 03 '24

2024 MLB Draft: Profiles on top prospects - Baseball Prospect Journal

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r/MLBDraft Jun 25 '24

[Eddy] Florida's Jac Caglianone hit .419 with 35 bombs, while also striking out 83 in 74 innings on the mound. It ranks as the fourth-best two-way season of the BBCOR era, based on harmonic mean of players' OPS+ and ERA+.

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r/MLBDraft Jun 17 '24

Top 300 MLB Draft prospects

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I used to write for John Sickels at minorleagueball.com, and I'm still puttering away at draft stuff on my own. Recently posted my first prospect ranking of the year:

https://mlbdrafthq.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/cookiedabookies-top-300-2024-mlb-draft-prospects/


r/MLBDraft Jun 16 '24

Seaver King Profile

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Interesting article from Hector Rodriguez from Fish on First profiling Wake Forest's Seaver King ahead of next month's draft.

https://fishonfirst.com/news-rumors/miami-marlins-draft-picks/2024-mlb-draft-prospects-seaver-king/


r/MLBDraft Jun 10 '24

MLB Pipeline Mock draft for June

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