MLB Draft Team-by-Team Breakdown
June 08, 2011
1,530 draft picks are in the books. Here's a look at how each team went about their business, separating hitters and pitchers, and also breaking down by collegiates, juco players, and high schoolers.
TEAM BAT PITCH 4YR JC HS ARI 24 28 34 3 15 ATL 26 24 31 8 11 BAL 22 28 20 12 18 BOS 25 28 21 3 29 CHC 24 26 20 9 21 CIN 23 27 25 6 19 CLE 22 28 23 10 17 COL 27 24 29 2 20 CWS 22 28 29 8 13 DET 29 20 29 5 15 TEAM BAT PITCH 4YR JC HS FLA 21 29 26 13 11 HOU 26 24 30 7 13 KC 25 25 24 6 20 LAA 28 21 35 6 8 LAD 27 23 28 7 15 MIL 27 24 27 3 21 MIN 17 35 29 5 18 NYM 23 28 26 3 22 NYY 16 34 16 6 28 OAK 28 21 30 3 16 TEAM BAT PITCH 4YR JC HS PHI 27 24 23 4 24 PIT 29 21 21 5 24 SD 29 24 31 5 17 SEA 23 28 31 7 13 SF 23 28 35 6 10 STL 25 25 30 8 12 TB 32 28 35 5 20 TEX 19 32 22 5 24 TOR 24 31 22 3 30 WSH 25 26 36 6 9 TEAM BAT PITCH 4YR JC HS Total 738 792 818 179 533 Average 24.6 26.4 27.3 6.0 17.8
Here's another way of looking at things. This has been hailed as a banner year for college pitching, and in fact, teams did take almost one more college pitcher per organization. Some teams went nuts--the Giants, for example, took 22 college arms.
TEAM 4YR-BAT 4YR-PIT JC-BAT JC-PIT HS-BAT HS-PIT ARI 16 18 1 2 7 8 ATL 14 17 4 4 8 3 BAL 10 10 3 9 9 9 BOS 9 12 1 2 15 14 CHC 11 9 2 7 11 10 CIN 8 17 5 1 10 9 CLE 8 15 4 6 10 7 COL 12 17 1 1 14 6 CWS 15 14 1 7 6 7 DET 14 15 2 3 13 2 TEAM 4YR-BAT 4YR-PIT JC-BAT JC-PIT HS-BAT HS-PIT FLA 9 17 5 8 7 4 HOU 18 12 1 6 7 6 KC 10 14 5 1 10 10 LAA 19 16 2 4 7 1 LAD 15 13 5 2 7 8 MIL 10 17 0 3 17 4 MIN 10 19 1 4 6 12 NYM 13 13 0 3 10 12 NYY 5 11 2 4 9 19 OAK 14 16 2 1 12 4 TEAM 4YR-BAT 4YR-PIT JC-BAT JC-PIT HS-BAT HS-PIT PHI 10 13 2 2 15 9 PIT 15 6 3 2 11 13 SD 16 15 3 2 10 7 SEA 12 19 4 3 7 6 SF 13 22 3 3 7 3 STL 12 18 4 4 9 3 TB 16 19 2 3 14 6 TEX 9 13 0 5 10 14 TOR 11 11 2 1 11 19 WSH 16 20 3 3 6 3 TEAM 4YR-BAT 4YR-PIT JC-BAT JC-PIT HS-BAT HS-PIT Total 370 448 73 106 295 238 Average 12.3 14.9 2.4 3.5 9.8 7.9
For comparison, I published similar tables after last year's draft.