Draft | Story | 4/26/2011

2011 Draft Preview

Allan Simpson

Photo: Ryan Young

Perfect Game plans extensive coverage of Major League Baseball’s 2011 first-year player draft, complete with extensive and exclusive player rankings, comprehensive scouting reports and profiles, and regular updates and features on the elite prospects.

We’ll also provide daily blogs of draft comings and goings, and enhance our coverage with mock drafts, draft chats and videos of top prospects.

Our daily coverage will begin on Wednesday, April 27, and continue through the draft itself, which is scheduled from June 6-8. You can get a thorough rundown of our planned coverage by viewing the draft schedule below.

As you can see, we’ll provide comprehensive national and state rankings of thousands of potential draft picks, along with elaborate scouting reports on more than 200 prospects and mini-reports on hundreds more. We’ll also provide much more content, including signing bonuses on hundreds of the top picks in the last several drafts.

PG draft experts David Rawnsley and Allan Simpson will be at the forefront of all our coverage, but we’ll also get considerable input from PG’s Patrick Ebert and Kendall Rogers.

Most of Perfect Game’s considerable draft content will be available free of charge, but it will take an Insider-level subscription to view some of the content—and even a Premium-level subscription, in some cases. To subscribe to PG Crosschecker’s more exclusive draft content, please click here.

Here’s a rough idea of what we have in store over the next several weeks (content is free unless otherwise noted):

Wednesday, April 27
·         General Draft Mechanics
·         Debut of 50 Prospects in 50 Days
·         Debut of Draft Blogs

Thursday, April 28
·         Order of selection story / team-by-team rotation, adjustments
·         General 2011 Draft Overview
·         Draft Chat with David Rawnsley

Friday, April 29
· Top 100 Prospects
·         Mock Draft – David Rawnsley

Wednesday, May 4
·   Historical draft information

Thursday, May 5
·         Signing bonuses, top 10 rounds, 2006-2010

·         Signing bonsues, first round, 1965-2005

Friday, May 6
·         Top 100 College Prospects
·         Top 100 Junior College Prospects
·         Top 100 High School Prospects

Saturday, May 7
·         Preliminary state-by-state follow lists/states A-M

Sunday, May 8
· Preliminary state-by-state follow lists/states N-Z

Monday, May 9
·         State Overview: Puerto Rico

Tuesday, May 10
·         State Overview: Florida

Wednesday, May 11
·         State Overview: Alabama
·         State Overview: Mississippi

Thursday, May 12
·         State Overview: Georgia
·         State Overview: Tennessee
·         Draft Chat with David Rawnsley

Friday, May 13
·         State Overview: North Carolina
·         State Overview: South Carolina

Saturday, May 14
·         State Overview: Louisiana

Monday, May 16
·         State Overview: Arizona

Tuesday, May 17
·         State Overview: California

Friday, May 20
·         Mock Draft: Patrick Ebert

Sunday, May 22
·         State Overview: Hawaii
·         State Overview: Kentucky

Monday, May 23
·         State Overview: Texas
·         State Overview: Nevada
·         State Overview: Utah

Tuesday, May 24
·         State Overview: Colorado
·         State Overview: New Mexico
·         State Overview: Oklahoma

Wednesday, May 25
·         State Overview: Washington
·         State Overview: Kansas

Thursday, May 26
·         State Overview: Oregon
·         State Overview: Arkansas
·         State Overview: Missouri

Friday, May 27
·         State Overview: Idaho
·         State Overview: Wyoming
·         State Overview: Nebraska
·         State Overview: North Dakota
·         State Overview: South Dakota

Saturday, May 28
·         State Overview: Illinois
·         State Overview: Iowa
·         State Overview: Montana

Sunday, May 29
·         State Overview: Minnesota
·         State Overview: Wisconsin
·         State Overview: Virginia

Monday, May 30
·         State Overview: Washington, DC
·         State Overview: Maryland
·         State Overview: Delaware
·         State Overview: West Virginia

Tuesday, May 31
·         State Overview: Indiana
·         State Overview: Michigan
·         Best Prospects / Best Tools

Wednesday, June 1
·         State Overview: Pennsylvania
·         State Overview: Ohio

Thursday, June 2
·         State Overview: New Jersey
·         State Overview: Alaska
·         State Overview: New York
·         Draft Chat with David Rawnsley

Friday, June 3
·         State Overview: Connecticut
·         State Overview: Maine
·         State Overview: Massachusetts
·         State Overview: New Hampshire
·         State Overview: Rhode Island
·         State Overview: Vermont

Saturday, June 4
·         State Overview: Canada
·         Mock Draft – David Rawnsley

Sunday, June 5
   ·         Top 300 Draft Prospects

Monday, June 6
   ·         Top 100 Draft Prospects with one-line scouting reports

50 in 50 Profiles

·         Travis Harrison

·         Gerrit Cole

                ·         Danny Hultzen

                ·         John Stilson

·         George Springer

·         Sonny Gray

                ·         Brian Goodwin

                ·         Jose Fernandez

·         Dylan Bundy
                ·         Dan Vogelbach
                ·         Alex Meyer

                ·         Josh Bell

·         Matt Barnes
                ·         Blake Swihart
                ·         Taylor Guerrieri

·

Kolten Wong

·         Javier Baez
                ·         Mikie Mahtook
                ·         Henry Owens

                ·         Andrew Susac

·         Taylor Jungmann
                ·         Robert Stephenson
                ·         Anthony Rendon

                ·         Joe Ross

·         Jed Bradley
                ·         Dwight Smith
                ·         Adam Conley

                ·         Archie Bradley

·         C.J./Kevin Cron
                ·         Tyler Beede
                ·         Trevor Bauer

                ·         Matt Purke

·         Daniel Norris
                ·         Cory Spangenberg
                ·         Andrew Chafin
                ·         Francisco Lindor
                ·         Anthony Meo
                ·         Dillon Howard
                ·         Dante Bichette
                ·         Tyler Anderson             ·         J.R. Graham
                ·         Austin Hedges
                ·         Levi Michael
                ·         Derek "Bubba" Starling
                ·         Josh Osich
   ·         Brandon Nimmo
   ·         Joe Panik
   ·         Jackie Bradley
   ·         Grayson Garvin
   ·         Sean Gilmartin

Draft Day Coverage, June 6-8
·         Pick-by-pick/round-by-round selections, Expert coverage/updates/analysis (Draft LIVE!)
·         Day 1 Draft Impressions

Thursday, June 9
·         Draft Impressions: American League

Friday, June 10
·         Draft Impressions: National League
·         2012 state-by-state follow lists