1997 Major League Baseball Draft

1997 Major League Baseball Draft

The 1997 First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft of high school and college baseball players, was held on June 2 and 3, 1997. A total of 1607 players were drafted over the course of 92 rounds.

First round selections

upplemental first round selections

Other notable players

*Randy Wolf, 2nd round, 54th overall
*Scott Linebrink, 2nd round, 56th overall
*Aaron Cook, 2nd round, 70th overall
*Rick Ankiel, 2nd round, 72nd overall
*Chone Figgins, 4th round, 132nd overall
*Michael Young, 5th round, 149th overall
*Tim Hudson, 6th round, 185th overall
*David Eckstein, 19th round, 581st overall
*Mike González, 30th round, 902nd overall
*Orlando Hudson, 43rd round, 1280th overall

Future major leaguers Jeff Weaver (2nd round, 62nd overall), Chase Utley (2nd round, 76th overall), Eric Byrnes (4th round, 130th overall), Xavier Nady (4th round, 134th overall), Cliff Lee (8th round, 246th overall), Garrett Atkins (10th round, 300th overall), Brandon Lyon (37th round, 1110th overall), David DeJesus (43rd round, 1281st overall), and Aaron Heilman (55th round, 1488th overall) were also selected during this draft, but did not sign with the teams that selected them. Weaver and Byrnes were subsequently drafted for the last time in 1998, Lyon in 1999, Utley, Nady, Lee, Atkins, and DeJesus in 2000, and Heilman in 2001.

ee also

*Major League Baseball
*Major League Baseball Draft
*List of MLB first overall draft choices
*Rule 5 Draft

External links

* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/1997/June-Reg/1.shtml Complete draft list from The Baseball Cube database]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/draft/draft.jsp?year=1997&type=junreg MLB.com's section on the draft]

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