Major League Baseball - 1997 MLB Draft Picks


1997 MLB Draft Picks
Draft	Round	Pick	Player	Pos	From	To	Notes



Draft	Round	Pick	Player	Pos	From	To	Notes

1997	1	1	Matt Anderson	P	Rice University	Detroit
1997	1	2	J.D. Drew	OF	Florida State University	Philadelphia
1997	1	3	Troy Glaus	3B	UCLA	Anaheim
1997	1	4	Jason Grilli	P	Seton Hall University	San Francisco
1997	1	5	Vernon Wells	OF	Bowie High School (Arlington, TX)	Toronto
1997	1	6	Geoff Goetz	P	Jesuit High School (Tampa, FL)	NY Mets
1997	1	7	Dan Reichert	P	Pacific	Kansas City
1997	1	8	J.J. Davis	1B-P	Baldwin Park High School (Baldwin Park, CA)	Pittsburgh
1997	1	9	Michael Cuddyer	SS	Great Bridge (Chesapeake, VA)	Minnesota
1997	1	10	Jon Garland	P	Kennedy High School (Granada Hills, CA)	Chi. Cubs
1997	1	11	Chris Enochs	P	West Virginia University	Oakland
1997	1	12	Aaron Akin	P	Cowley College	Florida
1997	1	13	Kyle Peterson	P	Stanford University	Milwaukee
1997	1	14	Brandon Larson	SS	Louisiana State University	Cincinnati
1997	1	15	Jason Dellaero	SS	University of South Florida	Chi. White Sox
1997	1	16	Lance Berkman	1B	Rice University	Houston
1997	1	17	John Curtice	P	Great Bridge (Chesapeake, VA)	Boston
1997	1	18	Mark Mangum	P	Kingwood High School (Kingwood, TX)	Colorado
1997	1	19	Ryan Anderson	P	Divine Child High School (Dearborn, MI)	Seattle
1997	1	20	Adam Kennedy	SS	Cal State Northridge	StL Cardinals
1997	1	21	Eric DuBose	P	Mississippi State University	Oakland
1997	1	22	Jayson Werth	C	Glenwood High School (Chatham, IL)	Baltimore
1997	1	23	Donnie Bridges	P	Oak Grove High School (Hattiesburg,MS)	Montreal
1997	1	24	Tyrell Godwin	OF	East Bladen (Elizabethtown,NC)	NY Yankees
1997	1	25	Glenn Davis	1B	Vanderbilt University	LA Dodgers
1997	1	26	Darnell McDonald	OF	Cherry Creek High School (Englewood, CO)	Baltimore
1997	1	27	Kevin Nicholson	SS	Stetson University	San Diego
1997	1	28	Tim Drew	P		Cleveland
1997	1	29	Troy Cameron	SS	St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale, FL)	Atlanta
1997	1	30	Jack Cust	1B	Immaculata (Somerville, NJ)	Arizona
1997	1	31	Jason Standridge	P	Hewitt-Trussville (Trussville, AL)	Tampa Bay
1997	1	32	Nathan Haynes	OF	Pinole Valley (Pinole,CA)	Oakland
1997	1	33	Kyle Kane	P	Saddleback College	Chi. White Sox
1997	1	34	Brett Caradonna	OF	El Capitan High School (Lakeside, CA)	Chi. White Sox
1997	1	35	Mark Fischer	OF	Georgia Institute of Technology	Boston
1997	1	36	Ntema Ndungidi	OF	Edouard Montpetit (Montreal,QC)	Baltimore
1997	1	37	Chris Stowe	P	Chancellor (Fredericksburg,VA)	Montreal
1997	1	38	Scott Hodges	SS	Henry Clay (Lexington, KY)	Montreal
1997	1	39	Jason Romano	3B	Hillsborough High School (Tampa, FL)	Texas
1997	1	40	Ryan Bradley	P	Arizona State University	NY Yankees
1997	1	41	Jason Fitzgerald	OF	Tulane University	Cleveland
1997	1	42	Denny Wagner	P	Virginia Tech	Oakland
1997	1	43	Aaron Myette	P	Central Arizona College	Chi. White Sox
1997	1	44	Bryan Hebson	P	Auburn University	Montreal
1997	1	45	Thomas Pittman	1B	East St. John (Reserve,LA)	Montreal
1997	1	46	Jim Parque	IhP	UCLA	Chi. White Sox
1997	1	47	T.J. Tucker	P	River Ridge High School (New Port Richey, FL)	Montreal
1997	1	48	Shane Arthurs	P	Westmoore (Oklahoma City, OK)	Montreal
1997	1	49	Dan McKinley	OF	Arizona State University	San Francisco
1997	1	50	Matthew LeCroy	C	Clemson University	Minnesota
1997	1	51	Rocky Biddle	P		Chi. White Sox
1997	1	52	Tootie Myers	OF	Petal (Petal,MS)	Montreal
1997	2	53	Shane Loux	P	Highland (Gilbert, AZ)	Detroit
1997	2	54	Randy Wolf	P	Pepperdone University	Philadelphia
1997	2	55	Brandon Parker	P	University of Southern Mississippi	Seattle
1997	2	56	Scott Linebrink	P	Texas State University	San Francisco
1997	2	57	Aaron Capista	SS		Boston
1997	2	58	Tyler Walker	P	University of California	NY Mets
1997	2	59	Dane Sardinha	C	Kamehameha High School (Kahuku,HI)	Kansas City
1997	2	60	Jose Nicolas	OF	Westminster Christian School (Miami, FL)	Pittsburgh
1997	2	61	Michael Restovich	OF	Mayo (Rochester,MN)	Minnesota
1997	2	62	Jeff Weaver	P	California State University, Fresno	Chi. White Sox
1997	2	63	Chad Harville	P	University of Memphis	Oakland
1997	2	64	Jeff Bailey	C	Kelso (Kelso,WA)	Florida
1997	2	65	Alvin Morrow	OF	Kirkwood (Kirkwood, MO)	Milwaukee
1997	2	66	Travis Dawkins	SS	Newberry (Newberry, SC)	Cincinnati
1997	2	67	Edgar Cruz	C	-	Cleveland
1997	2	68	Camron Hahn	C	Male (Louisville,KY)	Houston
1997	2	69	Eric Glaser	P	Highlands (Fort Thomas,KY)	Boston
1997	2	70	Aaron Cook	P	Hamilton High School (Hamilton, OH)	Colorado
1997	2	71	Patrick Boyd	OF	Central Catholic (Clearwater, FL)	Seattle
1997	2	72	Rick Ankiel	P	Port St. Lucie High School (Port St. Lucie, FL)	StL Cardinals
1997	2	73	Sean Douglass	P	Antelope Valley High School (Lancaster, CA)	Baltimore
1997	2	74	Kris Tetz	P	Lodi (Lodi, CA)	Montreal
1997	2	75	Jason Grabowski	C	University of Connecticut	Texas
1997	2	76	Chase Utley	SS	Poly High School (Long Beach, CA)	LA Dodgers
1997	2	77	Chris Tynan	P	Hudson's Bay (Vancouver, WA)	Texas
1997	2	78	Ben Howard	P	Jackson Central-Merry (Jackson, TN)	San Diego
1997	2	79	Rob Vael	P	College of Eastern Utah	Cleveland
1997	2	80	Joey Nation	P	Putnam City High School (Oklahoma City, OK)	Atlanta
1997	2	81	Jason Royer	P	Del City (Oklahoma City, OK)	Arizona
1997	2	82	Kenny Kelly	OF	Tampa Catholic High School (Tampa, FL)	Tampa Bay
1997	2	83	Steve Colyer	P	Fort Zumwalt South (St. Peters,MO)	LA Dodgers
1997	2	84	Jason Henry	P	University of Illinois-Chicago	NY Yankees
1997	3	90	Cesar Crespo	SS	Notre Dame High School (Caguas,PR)	NY Mets
1997	3	91	Jeremy Affeldt	P	Northwest Christian (Spokane, WA)	Kansas City
1997	3	92	John Grabow	P	San Gabriel High School (San Gabriel, CA)	Pittsburgh
1997	3	94	Scott Downs	P	University of Kentucky	Chi. Cubs
1997	3	95	Marcus Jones	P	Long Beach State University	Oakland
1997	3	96	Chris Aguila	3B	McQueen (Reno, NV)	Florida
1997	3	101	Travis Harper	P	James Madison University	Boston
1997	3	102	Todd Sears	1B	University of Nebraska	Colorado
1997	3	105	Matt Riley	P	Liberty High School (Brentwood,CA)	Baltimore
1997	4	124	Nate Teut	P	Iowa State University	Chi. Cubs
1997	4	126	Brandon Harper	C	Dallas Baptist University	Florida
1997	4	130	Eric Byrnes	OF	UCLA	Houston
1997	4	131	Angel Santos	SS	Miguel Melendez Munoz (Cayey, Puerto Rico)	Boston
1997	4	132	Chone Figgins	SS	Brandon High School (Brandon, FL)	Colorado
1997	4	134	Xavier Nady	SS	Salinas (Salinas,CA)	StL Cardinals
1997	4	137	David Elder	P	Georgia Institute of Technology	Texas
1997	4	142	Cory Aldridge	OF	Cooper High School (Abilene, TX)	Atlanta
1997	4	144	Todd Belitz	P	Washington State University	Tampa Bay
1997	5	146	Derrick Turnbow	P	Franklin High School (Franklin, TN)	Philadelphia
1997	5	149	Michael Young	SS	University of California-Santa Barbara	Toronto
1997	5	158	DeWayne Wise	OF	Chapin (Chapin,SC)	Cincinnati
1997	5	159	Pat Daneker	P		Chi. White Sox
1997	5	162	Justin Miller	P	Los Angeles Harbor College	Colorado
1997	5	163	Jermaine Clark	2B	University of San Francisco	Seattle
1997	5	165	Richard Bauer	P	Treasure Valley Community College	Baltimore
1997	5	169	Randy Choate	P	Florida State University	NY Yankees
1997	5	170	Tim Hummel	SS	Burke Catholic (Goshen, NY)	San Diego
1997	5	172	Horacio Ramirez	P	Inglewood High School (Inglewood, CA)	Atlanta
1997	6	176	Tom Jacquez	P	UCLA	Philadelphia
1997	6	177	Matt Wise	P	Cal State Fullerton	Anaheim
1997	6	178	Kevin Joseph	P	Rice University	San Francisco
1997	6	181	Jason Anderson	P	Danville High School (Danville, IL)	Kansas City
1997	6	185	Tim Hudson	P	Auburn University	Oakland
1997	7	211	Joe Dillon	1B	Texas Tech University	Kansas City
1997	7	212	Kory DeHaan	OF	Morningside College	Pittsburgh
1997	7	216	Matt Erickson	3B	University of Arkansas	Florida
1997	7	217	Bucky Jacobsen	OF	Lewis-Clark State College	Milwaukee
1997	7	218	Mike Frank	IhP-O	Santa Clara University	Cincinnati
1997	7	227	Mike Lamb	C	Cal State Fullerton	Texas
1997	7	229	Scott Wiggins	P	Northern Kentucky University	NY Yankees
1997	7	233	Brian Gordon	OF	Round Rock (Round Rock,TX)	Arizona
1997	8	245	Adam Piatt	3B	Mississippi State University	Oakland
1997	8	246	Clifton Lee	P		Florida
1997	8	253	Allan Simpson	P	Taft College	Seattle
1997	8	254	Jason Karnuth	P	Illinois State University	StL Cardinals
1997	8	255	Jay Spurgeon	P	University of Hawaii	Baltimore
1997	8	263	Ron Calloway	OF	Canada College	Arizona
1997	9	265	Bud Smith	OF-P	St. John Bosco (Bellflower, CA)	Detroit
1997	9	266	Michael Schulte	P	Cleveland High School (Reseda,CA)	Philadelphia
1997	9	271	Kris Wilson	P	Georgia Institute of Technology	Kansas City
1997	9	277	Matt Childers	P	Westside (Augusta, GA)	Milwaukee
1997	9	278	Scott Williamson	rhP.	Oklahoma State University	Cincinnati
1997	9	281	Justin Wayne	P	Punahou (Honolulu, HI)	Boston
1997	9	284	Seth Etherton	P	University of Southern California	StL Cardinals
1997	9	286	Talmadge Nunnari	1B	Jacksonville University	Montreal
1997	9	289	Randy Flores	P	University of Southern California	NY Yankees
1997	9	290	Junior Herndon	P	Moffat County (Craig,CO)	San Diego
1997	9	291	Dustan Mohr	OF	University of Alabama	Cleveland
1997	9	292	Ryan Snare	P	East Lake High School (Tarpon Springs, FL)	Atlanta
1997	9	294	Toby Hall	C	UNLV	Tampa Bay
1997	10	297	Steve Green	P	Fort Scott Community College	Anaheim
1997	10	300	Garrett Atkins	3B	University High School (Irvine,CA)	NY Mets
1997	10	302	Rico Washington	SS	Jones County High School (Gray, GA)	Pittsburgh
1997	10	311	Marty McLeary	P	Mount Vernon Nazarene University	Boston
1997	10	316	Scott Strickland	P	University of New Mexico	Montreal
1997	11	332	Sam McConnell	P	Ball State University	Pittsburgh
1997	11	334	Michael Wuertz	P		Chi. Cubs
1997	11	345	Jerry Hairston	SS	Southern Illinois University	Baltimore
1997	11	346	Matt Blank	P	Texas A&M University	Montreal
1997	11	348	Cory Vance	P	Butler (Vandalia,OH)	LA Dodgers
1997	11	350	David Maurer	P	Oklahoma State University	San Diego
1997	12	361	Jason Gilfillan	P	Limestone College	Kansas City
1997	12	364	Randy Williams	P	Lamar University	Chi. Cubs
1997	12	373	Joel Pineiro	P	Edison State College	Seattle
1997	13	386	Lance Niekro	SS	Jenkins High School (Lakeland, FL)	Philadelphia
1997	13	387	Doug Nickle	P	University of California	Anaheim
1997	13	390	Eric Cammack	P	Lamar University	NY Mets
1997	13	396	Ross Gload	1B	University of South Florida	Florida
1997	13	406	Luis Rivera	C	Florida Southern College	Montreal
1997	13	409	Brian Tallet	P	Hill College	NY Yankees
1997	14	425	Ryan Drese	P	University of California	Oakland
1997	14	430	Trey Hodges	P	Blinn College	Houston
1997	15	450	Jeremy Guthrie	P	Ashland High School (Ashland, OR)	NY Mets
1997	15	464	Jason Michaels	OF	University of Miami	StL Cardinals
1997	16	500	Shawn Camp	P	George Mason University	San Diego
1997	17	506	Johnny Estrada	C-1B	College of the Sequoias	Philadelphia
1997	17	513	Kevin Frederick	p-3B	Creighton University	Minnesota
1997	17	531	Brian Shackelford	P	University of Oklahoma	Cleveland
1997	17	534	Chris Bootcheck	P	LaPorte High School (LaPorte,IN)	Tampa Bay
1997	18	557	Jaime Bubela	OF	Cypress Falls (Houston, TX)	Texas
1997	19	574	Chris Piersoll	P	Fullerton College	Chi. Cubs
1997	19	581	David Eckstein	2B	University of Florida	Boston
1997	19	587	Travis Hughes	P	Cowley College	Texas
1997	20	599	Mark Hendrickson	P		Toronto
1997	20	600	Jason Roach	3B	University of North Carolina at Wilmington	NY Mets
1997	20	607	Doug Clark	OF	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Milwaukee
1997	20	610	Tim Redding	P	Monroe Community College	Houston
1997	20	612	Mark Woodyard	1B	Grand Bay (Grand Bay,AL)	Colorado
1997	20	614	Justin Brunette	P	San Diego State University	StL Cardinals
1997	20	615	Joe Borchard	1B		Baltimore
1997	21	627	Mike Colangelo	OF	George Mason University	Anaheim
1997	21	633	Juan Romero	P	University of Mobile	Minnesota
1997	22	667	Charles Manning	P	Winter Haven (Winter Haven, FL)	Milwaukee
1997	22	670	Jason Alfaro	P	Hill College	Houston
1997	23	696	Andres Torres	OF	Miami-Dade College	Florida
1997	23	701	Nate Bump	P	Penn State University	Boston
1997	23	714	Paul Hoover	SS	Kent State University	Tampa Bay
1997	24	720	Jason Phillips	C	San Diego State University	NY Mets
1997	24	734	Jose Rodriguez	P	Florida International University	StL Cardinals
1997	25	753	Adam Johnson	P	Torrey Pines (San Diego, CA)	Minnesota
1997	25	760	Charlton Jimerson	OF	Mount Eden (Hayward, CA)	Houston
1997	26	775	Maxim St. Pierre	C	-	Detroit
1997	26	776	Andy Dominique	3B	University of Nevada	Philadelphia
1997	26	795	Daniel Carrasco	P	Pima Community College	Baltimore
1997	27	817	Brian Mallette	P	Columbus State University	Milwaukee
1997	28	838	George Crawford	OF	Madison High School (Portland, OR)	San Francisco
1997	28	864	Jason Jimenez	P	San Jose State University	Tampa Bay
1997	29	874	Ryan Rupe	P	Texas A&M University	Chi. Cubs
1997	29	887	Jason Young	P	Berkeley (Berkeley,CA)	Texas
1997	29	894	Ryan Jorgensen	C	Kingwood High School (Kingwood, TX)	Tampa Bay
1997	30	902	Mike Gonzalez	P	San Jacinto College	Pittsburgh
1997	30	911	Bret Prinz	P	Phoenix College	Boston
1997	30	913	Aaron Looper	P	University of Arkansas-Fort Smith	Seattle
1997	32	959	Sean Green	P	Male (Louisville,KY)	Toronto
1997	33	992	William White	P	Benjamin Russell (Alexander City,AL)	Pittsburgh
1997	33	993	Nicholas Punto	SS	Saddleback College	Minnesota
1997	33	1007	Mitchell Jones	3B	Utah Valley State College	Texas
1997	34	1040	Jason Rakers	3B	Quincy University	San Diego
1997	35	1052	Jamal Strong	Of-SS	Citrus College	Pittsburgh
1997	36	1092	Alfredo Amezaga	SS	Miami Senior High School (Miami, FL)	Colorado
1997	36	1098	Jesus Feliciano	OF	-	LA Dodgers
1997	36	1103	Alex Cintron	SS	-	Arizona
1997	37	1110	Brandon Lyon	P	Taylorsville High School (Salt Lake City, UT)	NY Mets
1997	37	1129	Marshall McDougall	SS	Santa Fe Community College	NY Yankees
1997	38	1137	Scot Shields	P	Lincoln Memorial University	Anaheim
1997	38	1151	Dennis Tankersiey	P	St. Charles High School (St. Charles, MO)	Boston
1997	39	1187	Peter Orr	SS	New Market (Hamilton,ON)	Texas
1997	40	1200	Randy Keisler	P	Navarro College	NY Mets
1997	40	1218	John Nelson	SS	Denton (Denton, TX)	LA Dodgers
1997	40	1219	Michael Vento	OF	New Mexico Junior College	NY Yankees
1997	41	1227	Josh Pearce	P	Centralia College	Anaheim
1997	41	1231	Chris Sampson	SS	Lon Morris College	Kansas City
1997	41	1234	Jeff Duncan	OF	Lamont (Frankfort,IL)	Chi. Cubs
1997	41	1236	Geoff Geary	P	University of Oklahoma	Milwaukee
1997	41	1246	Chris Spurling	P	Sinclair Community College	NY Yankees
1997	43	1280	Orlando Hudson	SS	Spartanburg Methodist College	Toronto
1997	43	1281	David DeJesus	OF	Manalapan (Manalapan,NJ)	NY Mets
1997	44	1310	Matt Smith	LHP	Bishop Gorman High School (Las Vegas, NV)	Chi. White Sox
1997	44	1314	William Eyre	P	Snow College	StL Cardinals
1997	45	1332	Joseph Thurston	SS	Vallejo (Vallejo, CA)	Boston
1997	45	1337	Shane Youman	P	New Iberia High School (New Iberia, LA)	LA Dodgers
1997	46	1344	Brad Hawpe	P	Boswell (Fort Worth, TX)	Toronto
1997	46	1359	Daniel Wright	OF	Dixie High School (St. George,UT)	Atlanta
1997	50	1427	Thomas Murphy	p-SS	Charlotte High School (Punta Gorda, FL)	Arizona
1997	52	1444	Chad Qualls	P	Los Angeles Harbor College	Toronto
1997	52	1445	Mike Tonis	C	Elk Grove High School (Elk Grove, CA)	NY Mets
1997	55	1486	D.J. Houlton	P	Servite (Anaheim, CA)	Seattle
1997	55	1488	Aaron Heilman	P	Logansport (Logansport,IN)	NY Yankees
1997	58	1515	William Traber	P	El Segundo High School (El Segundo, CA)	Toronto
1997	62	1548	Steve Holm	SS	McClatchy (Sacramento, CA)	LA Dodgers
1997	69	1583	Heath Bell	SS	Santiago Canyon College	Tampa Bay
1997	89	1604	Robbie Hammock	C	Georgia Perimeter College	Tampa Bay
1997	90	1605	William Harris	2B-SS	Middle Georgia College	Tampa Bay

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The MLB draft often consists of 50 or more rounds of players, most of which never make it out of the minor leagues. In order to make the above list more useful, drafts that took place more than 5 years ago only include the first two rounds or players that actually appeared in a major league game.

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