Draft Results

You can find the Draft Results on the main page of our website. The draft grid we used during the draft is still posted, as is a cleaned-up version. I wasn't timing it, but I believe the rules meeting took 4 and a half hours. The draft took 17 hours.

The lightning round was apparently a test to see who could name the most players already off the board.

Here are some tidbits from the draft...

There were 168 carded players chosen in the regular phase of the draft (87 hitters, 81 pitchers).

There were 16 uncarded players taken (11 hitters, 5 pitchers).

There were 2 passes (Mavs and Bees).

The first player taken was Doug Fister by the Nads.

The last player taken was #186 Tony Cruz by the Wahoos.

 

 

In the lightning round, 8 teams took part.

There were 58 players selected (35 hitters, 23 pitchers).

There were 4 passes (Tweeners, Snakes, Wahoos, Rhinos).

The first player taken was #187 Jose Molina by the Drillers.

The last player taken was #248 John Lackey by the Warpigs.

There were 7 players from the lightning round who made their clubs, including...

2 by the Drillers, 2 by the Wahoos and 1 each by the Rhinos, DVs, and FFTs.

The latest a player was drafted who made a team was Frank Francisco, who was taken at #245 and made the Driller roster.

The Wahoos kept their last pick, Eduardo Nunez at #216, and now Nunez will be active for every game this year since he is the team's ONLY backup at 2b AND ss.

 

 

Altogether...

242 players were drafted: 226 carded players (122 hitters, 104 pitchers) and 16 uncarded players (11 hitters, 5 pitchers).

By team, here are the number of players drafted (carded, uncarded):

 

 

Warpigs 27 (24, 3)

DVs 23 (23, 0)

Drillers 22 (22, 0)

Wahoos 18 (16, 2)

FFTs 16 (15, 1)

Nads 16 (16, 0)

Sidewinders 15 (13, 2)

Rhinos 14 (12, 2)

Tweeners 14 (13, 1)

Inmates 13 (13, 0)

Zaps 12 (10, 2)

Goofs 12 (11, 1)

Mavs 11 (10, 1)

Fungoes 11 (10, 1)

Bees 9 (9, 0)

Buckeyes 9 (9, 0)

 

 

As always, there were several players protected going into the draft who were later cut. I didn't feel like figuring out how many.

As far as I can tell, the earliest a guy was drafted and then later cut was #93 Alex Liddi by the DVs (who KEPT pick #199 Lahair). The DV magnate noted that he wanted to "get Liddi off the board early to ensure the Rhinos one less bat to crush the DVs overrated bullpen.”