1998 Major League Baseball Draft

1998 Major League Baseball Draft

The 1998 First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft of high school and college baseball players, was held on June 2 and 3, 1998. A total of 1445 players were drafted over the course of 50 rounds.

First round selections

Other notable players

*Gerald Laird, 2nd round, 45th overall
*Adam Dunn, 2nd round, 50th overall
*Brandon Inge, 2nd round, 57th overall
*Scott Proctor, 5th round, 156th overall
*Aubrey Huff, 5th round, 162nd overall
*Bill Hall, 6th round, 176th overall
*Matt Holliday, 7th round, 210th overall
*Eric Byrnes, 8th round, 225th overall
*Jack Wilson, 9th round, 258th overall
*Morgan Ensberg, 9th round, 272nd overall
*Juan Pierre, 13th round, 390th overall
*Jay Gibbons, 14th round, 411th overall
*Eric Hinske, 17th round, 496th overall
*B.J. Ryan, 17th round, 500th overall
*Ty Wigginton, 17th round, 514th overall
*Mark Buehrle, 38th round, 1139th overall

Future major leaguers Barry Zito (3rd round, 83rd overall), Mark Teixeira (9th round, 265th overall), J.J. Putz (17th round, 499th overall), Cliff Lee (20th round, 609th overall), Ryan Braun (pitcher) (23rd round, 691st overall), Bobby Crosby (34th round, 1021st overall), and Mike Jacobs (48th round, 1412th overall) were also selected during this draft, but did not sign with the teams that selected them. Zito, Putz, and Jacobs were subsequently drafted for the last time in 1999, Lee in 2000, Teixeira and Crosby in 2001, and Braun in 2003.

ee also

*Major League Baseball
*Major League Baseball Draft
*List of MLB first overall draft choices
*Rule 5 Draft

External links

* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/1998/June-Reg/1.shtml Complete draft list from The Baseball Cube database]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/draft.jsp?year=1998&type=junreg MLB.com's section on the draft]

Past and future drafts


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