Anastasia --
As you're probably aware, a significant portion of the professional
baseball players are drafted out of high school. They go on to rookie
league and A ball, the rare few going directly to AA (and even fewer
to AAA). For example, the Cleveland Indians -- whose general manager
Mark Shapiro has a clear preference for college players -- drafted 23
university players and 11 more from junior colleges, but still drafted
18 high school players. And the Dodgers' first 8 draftees were all
high school students.
One of the best places on the web for information on the baseball
draft and major league prospects is Baseball America:
www.baseballamerica.com
Their 2003 draft information can be found at the following link.
Earlier years' draft information is available only to subscribers:
Baseball America
2003 Draft
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/2003draftdb.html
Here's a summary of where this year's June draftees were from for all
50 rounds and 30 teams. I've only included the college and junior
college players who were signed, according to Baseball America:
AL 20
AK none
AZ 23
AR 4
CA 93
CO 7
CT 7
DE 3
DC 1
FL 53
GA 21
HI 2
ID 5
IL 14
IN 13
IA 4
KS 7
KY 7
LA 21
ME 1
MD 4
MA 4
MI 8
MN 4
MS 16
MO 20
MT none
NE 6
NV 9
NH 1
NJ 8
NM 3
NY 16
NC 31
ND none
OH 16
OK 19
OR 3
PA 8
RI 3
SC 15
SD none
TN 13
TX 62
UT 4
VT 2
VA 24
WA 11
WV 3
WI 4
WY none
And Canadian colleges added 5 more.
Google search strategy:
I keep all of the baseball sites bookmarked. A couple others that you
might find to be useful resources are:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/
http://www.prospectreport.com/
Also note that the ESPN major league player index allows you to sort
by state, though it doesn?t screen who's gone to college and who
hasn't:
ESPN
"Players"
http://proxy.espn.go.com/mlb/players
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA |
