The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball franchise based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays (formerly the Tampa Bay Devil Rays) compete in the American League East division. Since the franchise was established in 1995, the Rays have selected 36 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft",[1] the Rule 4 Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick.[1] In addition, teams which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks.[2] The First-Year Player Draft is unrelated to the 1997 expansion draft in which the Rays filled their roster.
Evan Longoria (2008) is the only Rays' first-round pick to win a Rookie of the Year Award with the team.
Of the 36 players the Rays have selected in the first round, 10 have been outfielders and 12 have been drafted exclusively as pitchers. Of the 12 pitchers, eight were right-handed and four were left-handed. The Rays have also drafted five shortstops, four third basemen, two catchers, one second baseman, and one first baseman. In addition to these, one player (2017 pick Brendan McKay) was drafted as both a left-handed pitcher and a first baseman.[3][a] Twenty players were drafted out of high school, 12 were drafted out of four-year colleges, and one was drafted from a junior college. Two players were drafted from Rice University in Houston, Texas in consecutive years.[3]
The Rays have made nine selections in the supplemental round of the draft since their establishment in 1995.[3] These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the previous off-season,[2][6][V] or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year.[7] The Rays have failed to sign one of their first-round picks, LeVon Washington (2009), a client of Scott Boras who could not come to an agreed contract with the team.[8] The Rays received the 31st pick in 2010 as compensation.[9]
V Through the 2012 draft, free agents were evaluated by the Elias Sports Bureau and rated "Type A", "Type B", or not compensation-eligible. If a team offered arbitration to a player but that player refused and subsequently signed with another team, the original team was able to receive additional draft picks. If a "Type A" free agent left in this way, his previous team received a supplemental pick and a compensatory pick from the team with which he signed. If a "Type B" free agent left in this way, his previous team received only a supplemental pick.[7] Since the 2013 draft, free agents are no longer classified by type; instead, compensatory picks are only awarded if the team offered its free agent a contract worth at least the average of the 125 current richest MLB contracts.[35] However, if the free agent's last team acquired the player in a trade during the last year of his contract, it is ineligible to receive compensatory picks for that player.[36]
g The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Rafael Soriano.[24]
h The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Carl Crawford.[24]
i The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Grant Balfour[24]
j The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Brad Hawpe.[24]
k The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Joaquín Benoit.[24]
l The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Randy Choate.[24]
m The Rays gained a supplemental first-round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Chad Qualls.[24]
n The Rays gained a compensatory first-round pick in 2013 for losing free agent B. J. Upton, now known as Melvin Upton Jr.[26]
^ abAlthough McKay was officially listed on the draft board as exclusively a first baseman, the Rays announced they would develop him as a two-way player.[4]
References
^ ab"First-Year Player Draft Rules". MLB.com. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
^ abMcCalvy, Adam. "Brewers offer three arbitration". Brewers.MLB.com. Milwaukee Brewers. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
^ abcd"Tampa Bay Rays 1st Round Picks in the MLB June Amateur Draft". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved July 15, 2010.
^Mooney, Roger (June 12, 2017). "Rays draft Louisville's Brendan McKay, plan to let him pitch and hit". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^"Evan Longoria Statistics and History". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
^"First-Year Player Draft FAQ". MLB.com. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
^ ab"MLB, MLBPA reach five-year labor accord". MLB.com. Major League Baseball Players Association. October 24, 2006. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
^Schonbrun, Zach (August 17, 2009). "Rays say top two Draft picks won't sign". MLB.com. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
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^"1996 Tampa Bay Rays Picks in the June Draft". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved January 2, 2010.
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^"1st Round of the 2015 June Draft". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
^"1st Round of the 2016 June Draft". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
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^ ab"2021 Tampa Bay Rays Picks in the MLB June Amateur Draft | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
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External links
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The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball franchise based in St Petersburg Florida The Rays formerly the Tampa Bay Devil Rays compete in the American League East division Since the franchise was established in 1995 the Rays have selected 36 players in the first round Officially known as the First Year Player Draft 1 the Rule 4 Draft is Major League Baseball s primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools colleges and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams The draft order is determined based on the previous season s standings with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick 1 In addition teams which lost free agents in the previous off season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks 2 The First Year Player Draft is unrelated to the 1997 expansion draft in which the Rays filled their roster Evan Longoria 2008 is the only Rays first round pick to win a Rookie of the Year Award with the team Of the 36 players the Rays have selected in the first round 10 have been outfielders and 12 have been drafted exclusively as pitchers Of the 12 pitchers eight were right handed and four were left handed The Rays have also drafted five shortstops four third basemen two catchers one second baseman and one first baseman In addition to these one player 2017 pick Brendan McKay was drafted as both a left handed pitcher and a first baseman 3 a Twenty players were drafted out of high school 12 were drafted out of four year colleges and one was drafted from a junior college Two players were drafted from Rice University in Houston Texas in consecutive years 3 None of the Rays first round picks have won a World Series championship with the team and no pick has been named the Most Valuable Player Evan Longoria 2006 won the Rookie of the Year Award in 2008 the only Rays player to do so 5 The Rays have made the first selection in the draft four times drafting Josh Hamilton 1999 Delmon Young 2003 David Price 2007 and Tim Beckham 2008 3 The Rays have made nine selections in the supplemental round of the draft since their establishment in 1995 3 These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the previous off season 2 6 V or more recently if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year 7 The Rays have failed to sign one of their first round picks LeVon Washington 2009 a client of Scott Boras who could not come to an agreed contract with the team 8 The Rays received the 31st pick in 2010 as compensation 9 Contents 1 Key 2 Picks 3 See also 4 Footnotes 5 References 6 External linksKey EditYear Each year links to an article about that year s Major League Baseball Draft Position Indicates the secondary collegiate position at which the player was drafted rather than the professional position the player may have gone on to playPick Indicates the number of the pick within the first round Player did not sign with the Rays Indicates a supplemental pickPicks Edit Josh Hamilton 1999 was the first of the Rays first overall selections in the draft Delmon Young 2003 was one of six outfielders selected by the Rays in the first round David Price 2007 was the third of the Rays first overall selections in the draft Year Name Position School Location Pick Ref1996 Paul Wilder Outfielder Cary High School Cary North Carolina 29 10 1997 Jason Standridge Right handed pitcher Hewitt Trussville High School Trussville Alabama 31 11 1998 no first round pick a 12 1999 Josh Hamilton Outfielder Athens Drive High School Raleigh North Carolina 1 13 2000 Rocco Baldelli Outfielder Bishop Hendricken High School Warwick Rhode Island 6 14 2001 Dewon Brazelton Right handed pitcher Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro Tennessee 3 15 2002 B J Upton b Shortstop Greenbrier Christian Academy Chesapeake Virginia 2 16 2003 Delmon Young Outfielder Adolfo Camarillo High School Camarillo California 1 17 2004 Jeff Niemann Right handed pitcher Rice University Houston Texas 4 18 2005 Wade Townsend Right handed pitcher Rice University Houston Texas 8 19 2006 Evan Longoria Third baseman California State University Long Beach Long Beach California 3 20 2007 David Price Left handed pitcher Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee 1 21 2008 Tim Beckham Shortstop Griffin High School Griffin Georgia 1 22 2009 LeVon Washington Second baseman Buchholz High School Gainesville Florida 30 23 2010 Josh Sale Outfielder Bishop Blanchet High School Seattle Washington 17 9 2010 Justin O Conner Catcher Cowan High School Cowan Indiana 31 c 9 2010 Drew Vettleson Outfielder Central Kitsap High School Silverdale Washington 42 d 9 2011 Taylor Guerrieri Right handed pitcher Spring Valley High School Columbia South Carolina 24 e 24 2011 Mikie Mahtook Outfielder Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana 31 f 24 2011 Jake Hager Shortstop Sierra Vista High School Spring Valley Nevada 32 24 2011 Brandon Martin Shortstop Santiago High School Garden Grove California 38 g 24 2011 Tyler Goeddel Third baseman St Francis High School Mountain View California 41 h 24 2011 Jeff Ames Right handed pitcher Lower Columbia College Longview Washington 42 i 24 2011 Blake Snell Left handed pitcher Shorewood High School Shoreline Washington 52 j 24 2011 Kes Carter Outfielder Western Kentucky University Bowling Green Kentucky 56 k 24 2011 Grayson Garvin Left handed pitcher Vanderbilt University Nashville Tennessee 59 l 24 2011 James Harris Outfielder Oakland Technical High School Oakland California 60 m 24 2012 Richie Shaffer Third baseman Clemson University Clemson South Carolina 25 25 2013 Nick Ciuffo Catcher Lexington High School Lexington South Carolina 21 26 2013 Ryne Stanek Right handed pitcher University of Arkansas Fayetteville Arkansas 29 n 26 2014 Casey Gillaspie First baseman Wichita State University Wichita Kansas 20 27 2015 Garrett Whitley Outfielder Niskayuna High School Niskayuna New York 13 28 2016 Josh Lowe Third baseman Pope High School East Cobb Georgia 13 29 2017 Brendan McKay First baseman Left handed pitcher a University of Louisville Louisville Kentucky 4 30 2018 Matthew Liberatore Left handed pitcher Mountain Ridge High School Glendale Arizona 16 31 2019 Greg Jones Shortstop University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington North Carolina 22 32 2020 Nick Bitsko Right handed pitcher Central Bucks High School East Buckingham Pennsylvania 24 33 2021 Carson Williams Shortstop Torrey Pines High School San Diego California 28 34 2021 Cooper Kinney Second baseman Baylor School Chattanooga Tennessee 34 n 34 See also EditTampa Bay Rays minor league playersFootnotes EditV Through the 2012 draft free agents were evaluated by the Elias Sports Bureau and rated Type A Type B or not compensation eligible If a team offered arbitration to a player but that player refused and subsequently signed with another team the original team was able to receive additional draft picks If a Type A free agent left in this way his previous team received a supplemental pick and a compensatory pick from the team with which he signed If a Type B free agent left in this way his previous team received only a supplemental pick 7 Since the 2013 draft free agents are no longer classified by type instead compensatory picks are only awarded if the team offered its free agent a contract worth at least the average of the 125 current richest MLB contracts 35 However if the free agent s last team acquired the player in a trade during the last year of his contract it is ineligible to receive compensatory picks for that player 36 a The Rays lost their first round pick in 1998 to the San Francisco Giants as compensation for signing free agent Roberto Hernandez 37 b Now known by his birth name of Melvin Upton Jr c The Rays gained a compensatory first round pick in 2010 as compensation for not signing first round draft pick LeVon Washington 9 d The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 as for losing free agent Gregg Zaun 9 e The Rays gained a compensatory first round pick in 2011 from the Boston Red Sox for losing free agent Carl Crawford 24 f The Rays gained a compensatory first round pick in 2011 from the New York Yankees for losing free agent Rafael Soriano 24 g The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Rafael Soriano 24 h The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Carl Crawford 24 i The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Grant Balfour 24 j The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Brad Hawpe 24 k The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Joaquin Benoit 24 l The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Randy Choate 24 m The Rays gained a supplemental first round pick in 2010 for losing free agent Chad Qualls 24 n The Rays gained a compensatory first round pick in 2013 for losing free agent B J Upton now known as Melvin Upton Jr 26 a b Although McKay was officially listed on the draft board as exclusively a first baseman the Rays announced they would develop him as a two way player 4 References Edit a b First Year Player Draft Rules MLB com Retrieved January 2 2010 a b McCalvy Adam Brewers offer three arbitration Brewers MLB com Milwaukee Brewers Retrieved January 2 2010 a b c d Tampa Bay Rays 1st Round Picks in the MLB June Amateur Draft Baseball Reference com Retrieved July 15 2010 Mooney Roger June 12 2017 Rays draft Louisville s Brendan McKay plan to let him pitch and hit Tampa Bay Times Retrieved August 8 2017 Evan Longoria Statistics and History Baseball Reference com Retrieved July 22 2010 First Year Player Draft FAQ MLB com Retrieved July 5 2010 a b MLB MLBPA reach five year labor accord MLB com Major League Baseball Players Association October 24 2006 Retrieved July 5 2010 Schonbrun Zach August 17 2009 Rays say top two Draft picks won t sign MLB com Retrieved July 22 2010 a b 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