Braves 2014 Draft Stats and Some Trivia

With the 2014 draft in our rear view mirror I’ve put together some stats about the Braves selections; some of them interesting some of the have a future as useless stat of the day. Without further preliminaries we begin.

The Braves drafted 40 players. Although there are forty rounds that doesn’t always happen but this was a deep draft and most teams did grab all forty. By Position there were :

• 19 pitchers, 4 left handed and 15 right handed
• 5 second baseman
• 4 first baseman
• 4 center fielder
• 3 corner outfielders
• 3 catchers
• 2 shortstops (though one of those – Codey McElroy- could be converted to pitcher)
• 1  third baseman

The selection includes three players with a baseball lineage; 2B Luke Dykstra (Dad Met/Philly outfielder Lenny Dykstra), SS Grayson Byrd (Dad Braves pitcher Paul Byrd), and 2B J.J. Franco (Dad Mets pitcher John Franco).

Fifteen of the players were named in Baseball America’s Top 500 prospects. Aside from the fact that the first player chosen was the highest ranked, their prospect ranking had little correlation to the players draft round or pick number.

They selected the most from California (4) followed by Colorado, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas with 3 each. Alabama, Illinois, Indiana and Oklahoma had 2 each. and eleven other states had one.

Four year colleges and universities accounted for 23 of the selections while 15 came from high schools and 2 from 2 year community colleges.

The selection would seem to all the Braves to field a pretty competitive basketball team. The draft includes one man at 6’8”,  6’7”,  6’6” and 6’5”, six who stand 6’4”, 6 more at 6’3”, seven at 6’2” and eight at a mere 6’1”.

No one

Two selectees shared a last name

with another draftee but

Jake and Sean Godfrey were taken in back to back rounds but there’s nothing showing they are related.  Three duos  shared a first name; two guys are named Caleb, two are named Luke and two are named Matt.

Here’s the complete List

And here’s link to posts about the first ten selections

First Pick Braxton Davidson

Pick 2 Garrett Fulncheck  (Note that tis post also includes my initial look at Davidson. I’ve since revised my position and that’s reflected in the first link. Hey, I get to change my mind too )

Pick 3 Max Povse

Picks 4 through 10

That’s A Wrap

We haven’t yet revised on Braves prospect list to include the new players. As I write this only Davidson and Fulencheck have agree to sign so any realignment would be a bit premature. We’ll let the dust settle then put it together for you. If you have questions about the any of these payers let us me know and we’ll get you the information,