MLB Draft

As the highest selection since Matt Barnes in 2011, Reggie Crawford has been selected by San Francisco in the 2022 MLB Draft as the No. 30 overall pick ...

Crawford, with true size, at 6-foot-4, 235 pounds, has the potential to be a two-way player, with above-average raw power and a fastball that has touched 99 mph from the left side. The 2021 campaign saw Crawford break out and become a legitimate first-round candidate. Homers and RBI also topped the Big East, helping earn second-team all-conference honors. As a result, he has risk of becoming a reliever, which is a much less desirable outcome for a pitcher. The Giants organization has a history of taking UConn pitchers, as the team selected Pat Ruotolo and John Russell in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The slot value of this pick is $2.49 million.

MINNEAPOLIS -- As the Twins' Draft room filled up at around 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, they had very little sense for how the top of the Draft would unfold ...

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Similar to the baseball season itself, evaluating the MLB draft requires a marathon mentality, not a sprint. Players drafted this weekend will disappear into ...

That's the fewest pitchers taken in the first round this century. Crawford is recovering from Tommy John surgery and threw only eight innings in college, but he throws 99 mph from the left side, and he's shown some promise with the bat as well. It was a poor pitching class, and as a result, only seven pitchers were selected in the first round, nine if you include No. 20 pick Owen Murphy and No. 30 pick Reggie Crawford, two two-way players. It's the first time since 1971 a college player was not taken in the top five picks. The Oklahoma ace returned from Tommy John surgery in late March and didn't really hit his stride until June, when he was dominant during the Sooners' run to the College World Series Finals. Horton's impressive postseason showing landed him with the Cubs as the No. 7 pick. He was far and away the biggest draft riser this spring. All told, 15 four-year college kids were taken in the first round, the fewest since 2018. Rocker going where he did was a big surprise, he was expected to go in the back half of the first round somewhere, but good for him. Cincinnati landed Collier with the No. 18 pick even though he was a projected top-10 pick all spring, and sometimes even a projected top-five pick. A total of four sons of big leaguers were drafted in the first round: A year ago Rocker, the former Vanderbilt ace, was the No. 10 pick in the draft, but the Mets did not sign him because something in his physical scared them. The 2022 MLB amateur draft began with the first 80 selections Sunday night.

NORMAL, Ill. – Illinois State third-year sophomore Ryan Cermak has been selected in the second round, 71st overall by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2022 MLB ...

It's a great day for Redbird Baseball and Ryan Cermak." He played third base his freshman season and the early part of 2021. Cermak was named MVC Defensive Player of the Year and First-Team All-MVC for the second-straight season in 2022. Cermak was also MVC Scholar-Athlete First-Team and a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree with his 3.77 GPA in Recreation Management. Holm: "What a moment for Ryan. He came in and worked his butt off from day one. Cermak was picked in the Competitive Balance Round B of Round 2.

Florida's three picks on day one of the draft is tied for the top mark in the country.

– Round 2, Pick 69 (Cleveland Indians) – Round 2, Pick 40 (Boston Red Sox) – Round 2, Pick 67 (Baltimore Orioles) – Round 2, Pick 44 (Pitssburgh Pirates) – Round 1, Pick 31 (Colorado Rockies) Defensively, Fabian is one of the better center fielders in the class, with solid speed, athleticism and instincts to stick at the position and be an impact defender." – Round 2, Pick 44 (Pittsburgh Pirates) – Round 1, Pick 31 (Colorado Rockies) Fabian concluded his fourth season in Orange & Blue with 56 homers, which ranks third all-time in program history. Fabian is the 27th-highest draft pick in school history and the 19th-highest under head coach Kevin O'Sullivan Fabian cut his strikeout rate down to 22.3% in 2022, marking a decrease of 11.0%. Fabian followed his 20-homer 2021 campaign with a 24-homer season in 2022, which ranked second in the SEC behind teammate Wyatt Langford

With the 26th overall in the MLB Draft, the White Sox selected Noah Schultz, a left-handed pitcher out of Oswego East High School.

Drop your reactions in the comments section below. It’s no secret that outside of Norge Vera, the White Sox have very few pitching prospects that they are able to comfortably project and dream on. With the 26th overall pick, the organization selected Noah Schultz from Oswego East High School in Oswego, IL. Recent mock drafts and evaluators were pretty split on whether the White Sox would take a prep bat or college arm, and even up until draft time, no one really was sure which way the team would go.