Seven - Los Angeles Dodgers: C Russell Martin, RHP James McDonald, RHP Cory Wade, 1B James Loney, 2B Orlando Hudson, OF Matt Kemp, OF Juan Pierre.
Five - Los Angeles Angels: OF Torii Hunter, OF Chone Figgins, 2B Howie Kendrick, LHP Darren Oliver, OF Gary Matthews Jr.
Four - Milwaukee: 1B Prince Fielder, 2B Rickie Weeks, 3B Bill Hall, CF Mike Cameron; Pittsburgh: LHP Donnie Veal, RHP Ian Snell, OF Craig Monroe, OF Nyjer Morgan; Arizona: 1B Tony Clark, RP Tom Gordon (DL), OF Justin Upton, OF Chris Young; Washington: OF Lastings Milledge, OF Elijah Dukes, OF Willie Harris, 1B Dmitri Young (DL); Detroit: RHP Edwin Jackson, DH Marcus Thames, CF Curtis Granderson, LHP Dontrelle Willis (DL); Cincinnati: 2B Brandon Phillips, LHP Arthur Rhodes, INF Jerry Hairston Jr., OF Chris Dickerson.
Three - San Francisco: OF Randy Winn, OF Fred Lewis, SS Emmanuel Burris; Houston: RHP LaTroy Hawkins, CF Michael Bourn, LHP Wesley Wright; San Diego: OF Cliff Floyd, OF-INF Scott Hairston, OF Jody Gerut; Chicago Cubs: 1B Derrick Lee, OF Joey Gathright, OF Milton Bradley;
Two - Minnesota: OF Delmon Young, OF Denard Span; Chicago White Sox: OF Jermaine Dye, OF Dewayne Wise; Cleveland: OF Ben Francisco, OF Grady Sizemore; Tampa Bay: OF B.J. Upton, OF Carl Crawford; Baltimore: OF Adam Jones, SS Robert Andino, Philadelphia: 1B Ryan Howard, SS Jimmy Rollins; New York Yankees: SS Derek Jeter, LHP CC Sabathia; New York Mets: OF Marlon Anderson, OF Gary Sheffield.
One - Kansas City: OF Coco Crisp; Florida: OF Cameron Maybin; Atlanta: OF Garret Anderson; Colorado: OF Dexter Fowler; Seattle: OF Ken Griffey Jr.; Toronto: OF Vernon Wells; Oakland: OF Rajai Davis; St. Louis: INF Joe Thurston; Texas: OF Marlon Byrd.
None: Boston.
The whole piece is well worth your time.
Sad, but not surprising. It's all about the 'select teams'. I can tell you from my own experience with AAU, Legion, etc, that there were never any african americans and I was one of the few kids who actually lived in the city. Those teams are the only shot you've got of getting drafted or picking up a scholarship.
ReplyDeleteI think RBI and the academy in Compton are nice gestures by MLB, but I'm skeptical. It's just so much more cost effective for individual teams to set up those academies in the Dominican or Venezulea where they can pick up 12, 13 year old kids and control the next 10-15 years of their life because they don't have to go through the draft.
Thanks, Tom, for that Chad Durbin Twitter link which led me to his little side project, http://showcaseu.com/, which for the low price of $99/yr is a do-it-yourself recruiting tool for student athletes. How many inner city kids are going to shell out a hundred bucks for the do-it-yourself service? Imagine how much the 'have someone else do it' services cost, that thousands of kids end up using. If your still surprised that there aren't more inner city kids, black, white or other, moving on to higher levels of baseball, you're probably shocked that there aren't more of those same demographics in the NHL.
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