2007 Major League Baseball Draft

The 2007 First-Year Player Draft was Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft of high school and college baseball players, and was held on June 7 and June 8 2007. The first day session of the draft, including the first 25 rounds, was scheduled to be broadcast "live" from Orlando, Florida, on television for the first time [ [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070604&content_id=2004277&vkey=draft2007&fext=.jsp MLB.com MLB.com has your Draft needs covered] ] , on ESPN2 from 2:00pm to 6:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (1800 - 2200 UTC). [ [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2862901 ESPN.com web site - 2007 Draft broadcast announcement] - 7 May 2007] Previously the conference call format draft was broadcast live, along with commentary, on both draft days exclusively from the MLB.com website as streaming audio. In total the draft featured 50 rounds and 1453 selections. [cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070608&content_id=2014177&vkey=draft2007&fext=.jsp|accessdate=2007-09-17|date=2007-06-08|title=New rules alter strategy on Day 2|publisher=MLB Advanced Media, L.P. |author=Czerwinski, Kevin T.]

First Round Selections

upplemental First Round Selections

Background

When 17 high school players were selected in the opening round of the First-Year Player Draft, it seemed as if the young would rule the two days at Disney World. But as the second day of the Draft unfolded, it became apparent that the new rules eliminating draft-and-follows as well those setting a firm signing date for draftees were having an impact on the proceedings.

When the 1,453rd and final pick was made, there were some significant changes in the approach to drafting high school players. For starters, there were only 476 prep players chosen, which represents the lowest total since 415 high school players were chosen in 1987. It was also only the second time in the past two decades that the number of high school players chosen dipped below 500.

There were 66 fewer prep players chosen than last year. In addition, high school players represented only 32.7 percent of those drafted, which is the lowest percentage since 32.8 percent of players chosen in 1987 came from the prep ranks. [cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/index.jsp?feature=decade2000s|title=Background on the 2007 MLB Draft|accessdate=2008-07-16 ]

ee also

*Major League Baseball
*Major League Baseball Draft
*2000 Major League Baseball Draft
*2001 Major League Baseball Draft
*2002 Major League Baseball Draft
*2003 Major League Baseball Draft
*2004 Major League Baseball Draft
*2005 Major League Baseball Draft
*2006 Major League Baseball Draft
*2008 Major League Baseball Draft
*List of MLB first overall draft choices
*Rule 5 Draft

External links

* [http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp MLB.com official website]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2007/index.jsp MLB.com 2007 draft page]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2007/index.jsp?content=order MLB.com - 2007 Complete Draft Order]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2007/drafttracker.jsp MLB.com - 2007 Draft Tracker]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070516&content_id=1967914&vkey=draft2007&fext=.jsp 2007 "Top Ten" MLB draft predictions per Jonathan Mayo at MLB.com] (16 May 2007)
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070523&content_id=1981250&vkey=draft2007&fext=.jsp 2007 "Top Twenty" MLB draft predictions per Jonathan Mayo at MLB.com] (23 May 2007))
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070605&content_id=2006566&vkey=draft2007&fext=.jsp 2007 Top 30 Projected Picks per Jonathan Mayo at MLB.com] (7 June 2007)
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070607&content_id=2011187&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb Last Minute Shifts in "Top 30" per Jonathan Mayo] (7 June 2007)
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/draftday/rules.jsp MLB.com - Draft Rules]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/index.jsp MLB.com - Draft History]
* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/2007/Round-1-1.shtml Complete draft list from "The Baseball Cube" database]

References

Past And Future Drafts