The top pick in the 2009 amateur draft, he underwent elbow ligament-replacement surgery on Sept. 10, 2010.
The ninth overall pick in the 2004 amateur draft, Nelson got off to a slow start this season, hitting just .242.
Selected by Texas in the 31st round of the 1996 amateur draft, Hafner made his major league debut six years later.
He was taken by the Yankees in the fourth round of the 2008 amateur draft out of Franklin High School in Tennessee.
The collective bargaining agreement that went into effect last year gives the worst teams the biggest spending pools in the amateur draft and international markets.
The first rounds of next month's amateur draft are likely to be filled with long-tossers, including Kyle Zimmer, the prized University of San Francisco right-hander.
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Hopefully, conversations regarding the amateur draft will make their way onto the docket when the players and the owners begin negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Selected sixth overall in the 2011 amateur draft out of Rice, he was called up from Double-A Harrisburg to fill in for injured third baseman Ryan Zimmerman.
As I have stated on numerous occasions, I am firm believer that the current structure of the amateur draft in baseball needs to be revised and a required slot money system has to be implemented.
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In a perfect world, I would love to see Bud Selig commission a joint study with the Major League Baseball Players Association on curing some of the current structural and financial flaws with the amateur draft.
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Some have even argued that Jeter would not have been the same ball player if the Cincinnati Reds had selected him instead of outfielder Chad Mottola with the fifth overall pick in the amateur draft on June 1, 1992.
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What does it signify when Sandy Alderson says that the Mets are "in the mix" for Bourn if a deal is seemingly contingent on the interpretation of an obscure rule having to do with the allocation of amateur draft picks said interpretation being itself contingent on a deal being reached?
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