5/31/20

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

James Paxton at #132 (4th Round); Corey Dickerson #260 (8th 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.



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

5 comments:

Mike Steffanos said...

Looking at this reminds me how hard it really is to draft and develop major league ballplayers.

Tom Brennan said...

If I knew who Bobby Evelina was, I would have rooted for him. 50th round.

Tom Brennan said...

Eveld. My tablet got wise with me again.

Mack Ade said...

2 good players make for a good draft

2 great ones... a great one

3? Wow

John From Albany said...

Tom, Bobby Eveld did not sign. Guess he didn't like his chances being drafted in the 50th round. He later played for Toronto and Texas.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=eveld-001mar