The rules dictating how teams can go about signing Draft picks may be
much different thanks to the most recent collective bargaining
agreement, but how things will operate during the 2012 First-Year Player
Draft remains largely the same.
Major League Baseball released the Draft order for the event on Tuesday, officially putting the Astros on the clock with the first pick. It is the third time Houston has had the No. 1 overall selection, having done so in 1976 and '92. Floyd Bannister and Phil Nevin went on to be quality Major Leaguers, so the Astros will hope history can repeat itself in June.
Some of the names being mentioned as potential top picks are such college pitchers as Stanford's Mark Appel, LSU's Kevin Gausman, the University of San Francisco's Kyle Zimmer and Texas A&M's Michael Wacha; Florida catcher Mike Zunino; and Georgia high school outfielder Byron Buxton. Read about all of them on MLB.com's 2012 Draft Top 50 list.
Major League Baseball released the Draft order for the event on Tuesday, officially putting the Astros on the clock with the first pick. It is the third time Houston has had the No. 1 overall selection, having done so in 1976 and '92. Floyd Bannister and Phil Nevin went on to be quality Major Leaguers, so the Astros will hope history can repeat itself in June.
Some of the names being mentioned as potential top picks are such college pitchers as Stanford's Mark Appel, LSU's Kevin Gausman, the University of San Francisco's Kyle Zimmer and Texas A&M's Michael Wacha; Florida catcher Mike Zunino; and Georgia high school outfielder Byron Buxton. Read about all of them on MLB.com's 2012 Draft Top 50 list.
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