2010 Draft Recap

As we head towards the 2020 MLB Draft, we are going to detail the last ten years of drafts.  

We will see the hits and the misses.  Before everyone starts complaining that the Mets missed on this guy or that guy, please note, a lot of teams miss on multiple players each year.  Sometimes the best prospects just don’t make it while an under the radar pick does.  That’s what makes baseball so much fun to watch.

In my opinion, 2010 was a packed draft with lots of Major League players and stars starting with Bryce Harper at #1.

Other prominent picks are as follows:

Manny Machado at #3, Yasmani Grandal at # 12; Chris Sale at #13; Christian Yelich at #23; 

Aaron Sanchez at #34 (1^st Round Supplemental); Noah Syndergaard at #38 (1^st Round Supplemental); Andrelton Simmons at #70 (2^nd Round); Addison Reed at #95 (3^rd Round); J. T. Realmuto at #104 (3^rd Round); 

James Paxton at #132 (4^th Round); Corey Dickerson #260 (8^th Round); Whit Merrifield #269 (9th round); Joc Pederson #352 (11th round); Robbie Ray #356 (12th round); Cody Allen #480 (16th round); Kevin Kiermaier #941 (31st round). 

Mack's Mets writer Tom Brennan added that this was one of the great drafts in this team's history.  Jake is arguably baseball's best starter, and Matt Harvey was elite as well, until he broke down.

Here is the complete 2010 draft from MLB.com.

The Mets were able to get two great starting pitchers from this draft, Jacob deGrom and Matt Harvey.  They lost their second round pick when they signed Jason Bay which would have helped in a good draft crop, but two pitchers like Matt and Jacob makes for a very good draft in my opinion.  

Mack's Mets writer Tom Brennan added that this was one of the great drafts in this team's history.  Jake deGrom is arguably baseball's best starter, and Matt Harvey was elite as well, until he broke down.  Most of the top 10 selections after Harvey did not do much in the majors, but were still solid picks.

Here were the Mets 2010 picks from Baseball Reference:

Rnd	Pick #	Name	Pos
1	#7	Matt Harvey	RHP
3	#89	Blake Forsythe	C
4	#122	Cory Vaughn	CF
5	#152	Matt den Dekker	CF
6	#182	Greg Peavey	RHP
7	#212	Jeff Walters	RHP
8	#242	Kenny McDowall	RHP
9	#272	Jacob deGrom	RHP
10	#302	Akeel Morris	RHP
11	#332	Adam Kolarek	LHP
12	#362	Bret Mitchell	RHP
13	#392	Brian Harrison	3B
14	#422	J.B. Brown	2B
15	#452	Tillman Pugh	CF
16	#482	Ryan Fraser	RHP
17	#512	Chad Sheppard	RHP
18	#542	A.J. Pinera	RHP
19	#572	Jonathan Kountis	RHP
20	#602	Luke Stewart	1B
21	#632	D.J. Johnson	2B
22	#662	Brandon Brown	SS
23	#692	Drew Martinez	CF
24	#722	Erik Goeddel	RHP
25	#752	Peter Birdwell	RHP
26	#782	Jet Butler	SS
27	#812	Todd Weldon	RHP
28	#842	Jeremy Gould	LHP
29	#872	Hamilton Bennett	LHP
30	#902	Josh Edgin	LHP
31	#932	Steve Winnick	RHP
32	#962	Patrick Farrell	C
33	#992	Hunter Carnevale	RHP
34	#1022	Justin Schafer	2B
35	#1052	Josh Easley	RHP
36	#1082	Jesen Therrien	RHP
37	#1112	Dylan Brown	CF
38	#1142	Peter Miller	RHP
39	#1172	Brian Cruz	SS
40	#1202	Brock Stewart	SS
41	#1232	Taylor Christian	RHP
42	#1262	J.J. Franco	SS
43	#1292	Donnie Tabb	SS
44	#1322	Kevin Gelinas	LHP
45	#1352	Terrence Jackson	LHP
46	#1382	Mike Jefferson	LHP
47	#1412	Sean O'Conner	RHP
48	#1442	Austen Smith	1B
49	#1472	Dillon Newman	RHP
50	#1502	Bobby Eveld	C