BB: D3 MLB Draft projections, picks and free-agent signings

[Heat23]

I have a pretty reliable source that has reported that Koback could go anywhere between the 5th-10th rounds.  While I am not disputing it, does anyone know the last time a D3 Position Player weent int he Top 10 Rounds?

Not sure on the last, but Oshkosh's Jarrod Washburn was a second rounder in '95... and then he stuck it up our tails for 9 innings that same night in Salem.

Mike Eisenberg of Marietta went in the 8th round back in 06

[hbp]

Kyle Wooden - Guilford (past national BA leader was 3rd this season and again made 2nd team All-America)

[infielddad]

Going through Draft Tracker pretty quickly but I cannot identify any DIII players picked into the 9th round.
Hopefully, I missed some/someone/anyone???

[CrashDavisD3]

Going through Draft Tracker pretty quickly but I cannot identify any DIII players picked into the 9th round.
Hopefully, I missed some/someone/anyone???

No big surprise. DIII players just don't have the track record that they will succeed in professional baseball. Few are drafted and even fewer get past double AA. Most last a few years in the low minors and are released. There is a reason why they played DIII baseball and not DI. Size, speed and skills and what scouts project them to be. There are always exceptions but not many.

[infielddad]

Cody Koback, Wisconsin Stevens Point outfielder to Boston in the 10th.

[AlleyCat]

Benjamin Hughes - St Olaf 10th round Colorado Rockies pick 318 first Div III pick of the year followed by Kobock from Stevens Point 10th round pick 322 - Boston

[cubs]

Expect pitchers to go first. Very few position players get drafted and those that do will not go high. MLB scouts do not have lot of respect of the numbers that d3 hitters put up. It is because of the quality of pitching hitters face at the d3 level.  If you don't believe look where the POY guys ended up in the draft over the last several years

So is going in the Top 10 rounds considered high?    Like I said earlier, just because he wasn't a consensus 1st Team All American team doesn't mean he doesn't have the raw numbers to get drafted, and in the Top 10 Rounds nonetheless.

[infielddad]

Expect pitchers to go first. Very few position players get drafted and those that do will not go high. MLB scouts do not have lot of respect of the numbers that d3 hitters put up. It is because of the quality of pitching hitters face at the d3 level.  If you don't believe look where the POY guys ended up in the draft over the last several years

So is going in the Top 10 rounds considered high?    Like I said earlier, just because he wasn't a consensus 1st Team All American team doesn't mean he doesn't have the raw numbers to get drafted, and in the Top 10 Rounds nonetheless.

What it means to me is  scouts view him as a darn good player, with the best in the Country; he has  tools that rate well, he is, or should, be willing to sign, and most importantly projects to have a lot more upside.
Also, Boston and Toronto have been the two organizations probably drafting the most DIII players over the past number of years.  Those they have picked, have done pretty darn well.

[cubs]

Expect pitchers to go first. Very few position players get drafted and those that do will not go high. MLB scouts do not have lot of respect of the numbers that d3 hitters put up. It is because of the quality of pitching hitters face at the d3 level.  If you don't believe look where the POY guys ended up in the draft over the last several years

So is going in the Top 10 rounds considered high?    Like I said earlier, just because he wasn't a consensus 1st Team All American team doesn't mean he doesn't have the raw numbers to get drafted, and in the Top 10 Rounds nonetheless.

What it means to me is  scout view him as a darn good player, with the best in the Country, with tools that rate well, he is, or should be willing to sign sign, and most importantly projects to have a lot more upside.
Also, Boston and Toronto have been the two organizations probably drafting the most DIII players over the past number of years.  Those they have picked, have done pretty darn well.

That was the point that I was trying to make....  I didn't care if he was a D1 or D3 kid, his raw numbers put him in the Top 10 Rounds.  Recently he was timed at 4.0 from the right hand batters box to first.  MLB average is about 4.3.

[Jim Dixon]

Greg Ross, Frostburg State, was selected by Atlanta in the 18th round (566 overall).

[CrashDavisD3]

Expect pitchers to go first. Very few position players get drafted and those that do will not go high. MLB scouts do not have lot of respect of the numbers that d3 hitters put up. It is because of the quality of pitching hitters face at the d3 level.  If you don't believe look where the POY guys ended up in the draft over the last several years

So is going in the Top 10 rounds considered high?    Like I said earlier, just because he wasn't a consensus 1st Team All American team doesn't mean he doesn't have the raw numbers to get drafted, and in the Top 10 Rounds nonetheless.

What it means to me is  scout view him as a darn good player, with the best in the Country, with tools that rate well, he is, or should be willing to sign sign, and most importantly projects to have a lot more upside.
Also, Boston and Toronto have been the two organizations probably drafting the most DIII players over the past number of years.  Those they have picked, have done pretty darn well.

That was the point that I was trying to make....  I didn't care if he was a D1 or D3 kid, his raw numbers put him in the Top 10 Rounds.  Recently he was timed at 4.0 from the right hand batters box to first.  MLB average is about 4.3.

+1 Excellent points. If a D3 kid has raw numbers and has the size, speed, strength and drive in the view of the scouts D3 players can and do make it but the numbers of D3 players that get drafted is such a small percentage than those that come out of D1, high school, and JC programs

[Jim Dixon]

Tampa Bay selects Occidental rhp Brooks Belter in the 25th round (780th overall).

[Jim Dixon]

David Colvin, Pomona-Pitzer was taken by Seattle in the 27th round (813 overall).

[Jim Dixon]

Ian Durham, a righthanded pitcher from Cal Lutheran was selected in the 28th round (871 overall) by the Philadelphia Phillies.

[Jim Dixon]

As we close on the final round, we have 5 pitchers, and one position player.

The first two came from the Midwest region, the last three, all right handed pitchers from the SCIAC

The score:

by position is 5 RHP, 1 OF

by region: 3 West, 2 Midwest, 1 Mid-Atlantic

No multiple school selections, no teams took more than 1 D-III player.  It is indeed possible that I missed someone.  I did see a Menlo Oaks player but the Oaks are no longer a D-III school this year. Nobody who transferred to another school stood out.