Caught In The Draft

Selig was pleased five players attended this year's Draft, hopes for more in the future

MLB's First-Year Player Draft last night "took another step forward as a live prime-time event," according to Mark Newman of MLB.com. Filling a "noted void of past Drafts, five prospects attended, and each was selected in the first round and given hats and jerseys." While five players was “significant," MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said that "he would prefer a crowd of them." Selig said, "Five is a good start, but we need to do better than that." Newman notes this year's event "had a different feel, but the same rising popularity." It continues to be "one of the biggest days of the calendar year in baseball in terms of multimedia visibility and demand by fans -- a far cry from those days when it was a quiet conference call." Selig said, ...