With the June Amateur Free Agent Draft
scheduled to kick off this evening, it's likely that there will be a
record number of former Aflac All-Americans selected in the first
round.
Of Perfect Game's top 50 prospects
eligible for this year's draft, 14 of them played on last year's
squad, and 21 of the top 100. In addition, seven more players out of
the top 30 prospects overall have played in previous years, spending
the last two to three years at the college or junior college level.
To those that follow prospects the
names are quite familiar. Gerrit Cole, Dylan Bundy, Matt Purke,
Francisco Lindor, Sonny Gray, Archie Bradley, Taylor Jungmann, Blake
Swihart, Alex Meyer, Daniel Norris, Brian Goodwin and Javier Baez are
all alums of the All-American Classic. They represent three
different years of the event, 2007, 2008 and 2010, with all of them
expected to be selected in the first round of the draft.
Here is a year-by-year list of the
80 players that have participated in the All-American Classic that
were selected in the first-round of the draft, dating back to 2004
(the overall pick and the year the player participated if not the
previous summer is in parenthesis):
2004:
Matt Bush (1)
Mark Rogers (5)
Homer Bailey (7)
Chris Nelson (9)
Neil Walker (11)
Trevor Plouffe (20)
Greg Golson (21)
Eric Hurley (30)
Giovanny Gonzalez (38)
Jay Rainville (39)
2005:
Justin Upton (1)
Cameron Maybin (10)
Andrew McCutchen (11)
Chris Volstad (16)
C.J. Henry (17)
John Drennen (33)
Ryan Tucker (34)
Beau Jones (41)
2006:
Billy Rowell (9)
Kasey Kiker (12)
Chris Marrero (15)
Jeremy Jeffress (16)
Kyle Drabek (18)
Chris Parmelee (20)
Colton Willems (22)
Max Sapp (23)
Cody Johnson (24)
Hank Conger (25)
Cory Rasmus (38)
2007:
Josh Vitters (3)
Madison Bumgarner (10)
Jason Heyward (14)
Blake Beavan (17)
Tim Alderson (22)
Michael Main (24)
Rick Porcello (27)
Josh Smoker (31)
Nick Noonan (32)
Jon Gilmore (33)
Neil Ramirez (44)
Justin Jackson (45)
Michael Burgess (49)
2008:
Tim Beckham (1)
Eric Hosmer (3)
Buster Posey (5, 2004)
Kyle Skipworth (6)
Brett Wallace (13, 2004)
Aaron Hicks (14)
Ethan Martin (15)
Ike Davis (18, 2004)
Gerrit Cole (28)
Brett DeVall (40)
2009:
Donavan Tate (3)
Zack Wheeler (6)
Jacob Turner (9)
Tyler Matzek (11)
Grant Green (13, 2005)
Matt Purke (14)
Jiovanni Mier (21)
Jared Mitchell (23, 2005)
Slade Heathcott (29)
LeVon Washington (30)
Matt Davidson (35)
Aaron Miller (36, 2005)
Kentrail Davis (39, 2006)
2010:
Bryce Harper (1)
Jameson Taillon (2)
Christian Colon (4, 2006)
Matt Harvey (7, 2006)
Karsten Whitson (9)
Yasmani Grandal (12, 2006)
Dylan Covey (14)
Josh Sale (17)
Kaleb Cowart (18)
Cameron Bedrosian (29)
Chevez Clarke (30)
Justin O'Conner (31)
Aaron Sanchez (34)
Matt Lipka (35)
Peter Tago (47)