2003 Major League Baseball Draft
- 2003 Major League Baseball Draft
The 2003 First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft, was held on June 3 and 4. It was conducted via conference call with representatives from each of the league's 30 teams.
"Source: [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/draftday/search.jsp?sc=round&sp=1 MLB.com 2003 Draft Tracker] "
First Round Selections
Background
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays selected Camarillo High School outfielder Delmon Young with the first overall pick.
Young (6-3, 205 pounds) batted .541 (33-for-61) with seven home runs, 28 RBI in 22 games as a senior this spring for Camarillo. He was named Baseball America's High School Player of the Year in 2002 and was one of only three juniors selected as first team 2002 All-Americans. He became the first junior to be named California State Player of the Year since Eric Chavez in 1995.
At the World Junior Championships in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he helped lead Team USA to a bronze medal while batting .513 with a tournament-record eight home runs and 19 RBI in 38 at-bats.
The 17-year-old Young is the younger brother of Dmitri Young of the Detroit Tigers, who was an expansion draft pick of the Rays, but never played in the organization. They became the first set of brothers to be taken within the first five selections of the draft. Dmitri was the 4th player selected by the Cardinals in the 1991 draft.
Pitchers Ryan Wagner (Cincinnati), Chad Cordero (Montreal), David Aardsma (San Francisco) and infielder Rickie Weeks (Milwaukee) all reached the Major League level in less than a year. [cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/index.jsp?feature=decade2000s|title=Background on the 2003 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
*2004 Major League Baseball Draft
*2005 Major League Baseball Draft
*2006 Major League Baseball Draft
*2007 Major League Baseball Draft
*2008 Major League Baseball Draft
*List of Major League Baseball first overall draft choices
*Rule 5 Draft
External links
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/draftday/index.jsp MLB.com - 2003 Draft page]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/index.jsp MLB.com - Draft History]
* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/2003/Round-1-1.shtml Complete draft list from "The Baseball Cube" database]
References
Past And Future Drafts
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