Perfect Game plans
extensive coverage of Major League Baseball’s 2012 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 tomorrow, on Friday, April 13, and continue through the draft
itself, which is scheduled from June 4-6. You can get a thorough
rundown of our planned coverage by viewing the draft schedule below.
There already is a
considerable amount of draft content available, including a list of
the top 2012 draft-eligible prospects that goes 500 deep. Preliminary
top prospect lists are also available for the 2013 and 2014 draft
classes as well as breaking down the top 100 prospects from the
college senior, junior, sophomore and freshmen classes, as well as
the top 200 prospects from the junior college ranks.
In January we started
to provide detailed scouting reports on some of the top prospects,
showcasing one player per day, Monday through Friday as part of our
Draft Focus series. When draft day arrives, 100 prospects will be
broken down extensively as part of this series, and a full list of
these players can be seen in the box found to the right.
In addition, Allan
Simpson's unrivaled state-by-state lists for the 2012 draft class
will be updated in the next two weeks, and you can find signing bonus
information on hundreds of the top picks in the last several drafts
off of Perfect Game's main Draft page.
PG draft experts David
Rawnsley and Allan Simpson will be at the forefront of all our
coverage, and we’ll also get considerable input from Ben Collman,
Patrick Ebert, Todd Gold and Kendall Rogers.
To get an idea of
Perfect Game's draft content, be sure to visit the 2011 draft page.
All of these features
will be available at varying levels of our subscription service, PG
Crosschecker. To subscribe to PG Crosschecker’s more exclusive
draft content, please click here.
On draft day itself
Perfect Game will be providing it's PG Draft LIVE! draft pick feature
in which users can view picks by round and by team while also giving
users the opportunity to search by a player's name. Perfect Game will continue its coverage through the draft itself while profiling the players as they sign leading up to the July 13 signing deadline.
Be sure to check back
frequently to the 2012 Draft Blog for the latest updates and follow
Perfect Game, David Rawnsley, Ben Collman, Patrick Ebert, Todd Gold
and Kendall Rogers on Twitter.
Upcoming
preview content (FREE):
• 2012 Draft Overview
• Updated Draft Order
• Draft Mechanics/Implications of the new CBA
Draft
Chats (FREE):
• September 21, 2011
• October 19, 2011
• March 7
• April 25
• May 3
• May 10
• May 17
• May 24
• May 31
Mock
Drafts (INSIDER):
• Tuesday, April 17
• Friday, May 18
• Monday, May 21 (PG Staff 10-round projection)
• Saturday, June 2
Top
Prospect list updates:
• 2012 State-by-State lists - PREMIUM (Alabama for free)
• Top 500 overall: 1-100 | 101-200 | 201-300 | 301-400 | 401-500
• Top 100 College Prospects
• Top 100 Junior College Prospects
• Top 500 overall – FREE: 1-250 | 251-500
• Top 250 overall
with full report – INSIDER: 1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201-250
State-by-State
Overviews | State-by-State Lists:
Lead-ins to State Overviews FREE, Reports INSIDER | State-by-State Lists PREMIUM (Alabama FREE)
• Alabama | List
• Alaska
• Arizona | List
• Arkansas | List
• California | List
• Canada | List
• Colorado | List
• Connecticut | List
• Delaware | List
• District of Columbia | List
• Florida | List
• Georgia | List
• Hawaii | List
• Idaho | List
• Illinois | List
• Indiana | List
• Iowa | List
• Kansas | List
• Kentucky | List
• Louisiana | List
• Maine | List
• Maryland | List
• Massachusetts | List
• Michigan | List
• Minnesota | List
• Mississippi | List
• Missouri | List
• Montana | List
• Nebraska | List
• Nevada | List
• New Hampshire | List
• New Jersey | List
• New Mexico | List
• New York | List
• North Carolina | List
• North Dakota | List
• Ohio | List
• Oklahoma | List
• Oregon | List
• Pennsylvania | List
• Puerto Rico | List
• Rhode Island | List
• South Carolina | List
• South Dakota | List
• Tennessee | List
• Texas | List
• Utah | List
• Vermont | List
• Virginia | List
• Washington | List
• West Virginia | List
• Wisconsin | List
• Wyoming | List