2019 MLB Draft Preview Content

Patrick Ebert

Once again Perfect Game plans extensive coverage of Major League Baseball’s 2019 first-year player draft, complete with player rankings, comprehensive scouting reports and profiles, and regular updates and features on the elite prospects. We’ll enhance our coverage with mock drafts and regional snapshots of the best prospects, state by state. Since baseball started at the beginning of the year Perfect Game has had you covered with hundreds of on in-person reports filed from both the high school and college levels.

This year we plan to grow our draft list to 610 once the preview content officially gets underway, symbolizing a 'Half-Draft' since there will be 1,217 picks in this year's MLB Draft. This coverage will continue through the draft itself, which is scheduled for June 3-5, and all of the links to these features, and so much more, can be found here in this feature as well as by visiting Perfect Game's main Draft page.

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To view past year's selections, round-by-round and team-by-team, please visit this link:

Perfect Game Draft Pick Database

2019 MLB Draft Video:

• College Player Database
• Perfect Game YouTube Page
• Steve Fiorindo Prospect Pipeline YouTube Page

2019 MLB Draft order (FREE):

• 2019 MLB Draft Order
• 2019 MLB Draft Raw Draft Order

2019 MLB Draft Features (FREE):

• 2019 MLB Draft: Top Tools
• Jackson Rutledge: Rutledge's rank on the rise
• Alek Manoah: Manoah, WVU continue to climb
• JJ Bleday: Bleday does it the Vandy way
• Emanuel Dean: Make the PG Dean's List
• Nick Lodolo: Lodolo locked-in at TCU
• Drew Mendoza: Mendoza, FSU eye end of era
• Ryan Zeferjahn: Zeferjahn, J'hawks home at last
• Jack Leiter, Anthony Volpe: PGAA's pace NJ's Delbarton
• Bobby Witt Jr: Witt set to lead No. 3 Heritage
• Kevin Sim: SD's Sim sees the World
• Trevor McDonald: McDonald hits 95 at PG World
• Maxwell Romero Jr: World opens arms to Romero Jr

Additional features can be found in Perfect Game's preview content of the 2018 college and high school baseball seasons. To access those features, please click on the following links:

2019 Perfect Game College Baseball Preview Index
2019 Perfect Game High School Baseball Preview Index

For more features please visit the Article Archive.

Perfect Game has conducted hundreds of player features in recent years in addition to the dozens of daily and weekly scouting reports provided on players. To search the archives simply type in the player's name in the search box in the upper right-hand corner of the site. When the search results appear, click on 'Articles' to view any stories related to a specific player.

2019 MLB Mock Drafts (FREE):

• Version 1
• Version 2
• Version 3
• Version 4

2019 MLB Draft Top Prospect lists/reports:

PG Half-Draft Top 610 Prospects
Top 100 Junior College Prospects

• Top 610 Prospect lists (PREMIUM - starting May 10):
1-100 | 101-200 | 201-300 | 301-400 | 401-500 | 501-610

• Top 610 Prospect reports (PREMIUM - starting May 20):
1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201-250 | 251-300 | 301-350 | 351-400 | 401-450 | 451-500 | 501-610

• Top 500 2019 High School Prospects
• Top 300 overall (April update)
• Top 300 overall (Dec.. update)
• Top 300 Junior College Prospects (Jan. update)
• Top 100 College Prospects (Dec. update)
• Top College Prospects by class (Jan. update): Seniors | Juniors | Sophomores | Freshmen
• 2018 Summer Collegiate Top Prospect Index
• Top 100 2020 Prospects (Dec. update)
• Top 500 2020 High School Prospects
• Top 50 2021 Prospects (Dec. update)
• Top 500 2021 High School Prospects

2019 High School Notebooks (FREE):

March 1: CJ Abrams, Pierce Gallo, Jake Smith, Jared Jones, Brennan Malone, Joseph Charles, Rece Hinds
March 5: Dawson Netz, Marcus Johnson, Jack Holman, Jashia Morrissey, Mahki Backstrom, Damone Hale, JaMore Ward, Matt Clark, Matthew Polk, Tyson Heaton, Wesley Scott, Ricky Tiedemann, Jared Jones
March 15: Wes Burton, Joseph Naranjo, Cole Koniarsky, Sanson Faltine III, Caden Homniok, Travis Phelps, JJ Goss, Andre Duplantier, Matthew Thompson, Maurice Hampton, Jerrion Ealy, Trevor McDonald, Logan Tanner, Kelly Crumpton, Colt Keith
March 22: Hunter Barco, Jackson Baumeister, Matt Allan, Josh Wolf, Brody Logsdon, Cody Freeman, Wyatt Duncan, Troy Taylor, Tucker Juline
April 5: Keoni Cavaco, Octavio Corona, Andrew Dalquist, Milan Tolentino, Cutter Clawson, Mahki Backstrom, Damone Hale, Ethan Hoopingarner, Nick Pinto, Emanuel Dean, Isaac Kim, Matthew McClure, Michael Carpentier, Andrew Herbert, Luke Mistone, Blake Walston
April 16: Brett Thomas, Gavin Collyer, Hagen Smith, Tyler Callihan, Nathan Hickey, Joseph Charles, Carson Montgomery, D'Andre Smith, Isaiah Marquez, Zach Jacobs, Jacob Gonzalez
April 19: Logan Britt, Bobby Witt Jr, Evan Fitterer, Michael Davinni, Chris Grothues, Evan Adolphus, Jonathan Guzman, Cameron Wagoner
April 29: Brennan Milone, Sean McLain, Connor McGuire, Nathan Manning, Jack Haley, Blake Klassen, Hunter Cranton, Nick Yorke, John Pappas, Joseph Naranjo, Sam Hliboki, Drew Bowser, Lucas Gordon, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Yordis Valdes, Dasan Brown, Cesar Valero, Owen Diodati, Jaden Brown, Mitchell Bratt, Justin Thorsteinson
May 3: Dylan Eskew, Michael Dominguez, Alex Schrier, Spencer Edwards, Milan Tolentino, Ignacio Alvarez, Trey Tribble, Zachary Maxwell
May 14: Quinn Priester, Tim Scarlett, Brett Wozniak, Cameron Repetti, Luke Davis
May 23: Joey Estes, Tony Jacob, Darius Perry, Jared Jones, Brett Wozniak, Cameron Repetti, Michael De Haro, Jonathan Guzman, Garrett Frechette, Cody Freeman, Kyle Anderson, Michael Forbes, Milan Tolentino, Matt McClure,

In addition, Perfect Game provided coverage from several notable high school tournaments this spring, including the Perfect Game High School Showdown, NHSI and Boras Classic events.

PG HS Showdown: Day 1 Notes | Day 2 Notes | Day 3 Notes | Showdown-Academies Notes
NHSI: Day 1 Notes | Day 2 Notes
Boras Classic: Day 1 Notes | Day 2 Notes | Day 3 Notes | Day 4 Notes

2019 College Reports/Rankings:

Perfect Game's one-of-a-kind scouting coverage of college baseball can be found in the following locations:

College Player Database (reports)
College Player Rankings (sort by class)

State-by-State Regional Snapshots (FREE):

Monday, May 20 - Friday, May 31

• South Atlantic: FL, GA, NC, SC
• Southeast: AL, KY, MS, TN
• South Central: AR, LA, OK, TX
• Mountain: AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY
• Pacific: AK, CA, HI, OR, WA
• Great Plains: IA, KS, MO, ND, NE, SD
• Great Lakes: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI
• Mid-Atlantic: DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV
• New England: CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT
• Canada and Puerto Rico

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