MLB Amateur Draft

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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Top 50 selections at the 33rd Amateur Draft held June 3-5, 1997. Selections 1-31 are first round picks and 32-50 are supplemental first round picks awarded for the loss of free agents.

Top 50 Picks

No			Pos
1	Detroit	Matt Anderson, Rice	P
2	Philadelphia	J.D. Drew, Florida St.	OF
3	Anaheim	Troy Glaus, UCLA	3B-SS
4	San Francisco	Jason Grilli, Seton Hall	P
5	Toronto	Vernon Wells, HS-Arlington, Tx.	OF
6	NY Mets	Geoff Goetz, HS-Tampa, Fl.	P
7	Kansas City	Dan Reichert, Pacific	P
8	Pittsburgh	J.J. Davis, HS-Ponoma, Ca.	1B
9	Minnesota	Michael Cuddyer, HS-Chesapeake, Va.	SS
10	Chicago-NL	Jon Garland, HS-Granada Hills, Ca.	P
11	Oakland	Chris Enochs, West Virginia	P
12	Florida	Aaron Akin, Cowley County (Kan.) CC	P
13	Milwaukee	Kyle Peterson, Stanford	P
14	Cincinnati	Brandon Larson, LSU	SS
15	Chicago-AL	Jason Dellaero, South Florida	SS
16	Houston	Lance Berkman, Rice	1B
17	Boston	John Curtice, HS-Chesapeake, Va.	P
18	Colorado	Mark Mangum, HS-Kingwood, Tx.	P
19	Seattle	Ryan Anderson, HS-Westland, Mich.	P
20	St. Louis	Adam Kennedy, CS-Northridge	SS
21	a-Oakland	Eric Dubose, Mississippi St.	P
22	Baltimore	Jayson Werth, HS-Chatham, Ill.	C
23	Montreal	Donnie Bridges, HS-Hattiesburg, Miss.	P
24	b-NY Yankees	Tyrell Godwin, HS-Elizabethtown, NC	OF
25	Los Angeles	Glenn Davis, Vanderbilt	1B-OF
26	c-Baltimore	Darnell McDonald, HS-Englewood, Col.	OF
27	San Diego	Kevin Nicholson, Stetson	SS
28	Cleveland	Tim Drew, HS-Hahira, Ga.	P
29	Atlanta	Troy Cameron, HS-Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.	SS
30	Arizona	Jack Cust, HS-Flemington, NJ	1B
31	Tampa Bay	Jason Standridge, HS-Trussville, Ala.	P
32	Oakland	Nathan Hayes, HS-Hercules, Cal.	OF
33	Chicago-AL	Kyle Kane, Saddleback (Cal.) CC	P
34	Chicago-AL	Brett Caradonna, HS-San Diego, Cal.	OF
35	Boston	Mark Fischer, Georgia Tech	OF
36	Baltimore	Ntema Ndungidi, HS-Montreal	OF
37	Montreal	Chris Stowe, HS-Fredricksburg, Va	P
38	Montreal	Scott Hodges, HS-Lexington, Ky.	SS
39	Texas	Jason Romano, HS-Tampa, Fla.	3B
40	NY Yankees	Ryan Bradley, Arizona St.	P
41	Cleveland	Jason Fitzgerald, Tulane	OF
42	Oakland	Denny Wagner, Virginia Tech	P
43	Chicago-AL	Aaron Myette, Central Arizona JC	P
44	Montreal	Bryan Hebson, Auburn	P
45	Montreal	Thomas Pittman, HS-Garyville, La.	1B
46	Chicago-AL	Jim Parque, UCLA	P
47	Montreal	T.J. Tucker, HS-New Port Richey, Fla.	P
48	Montreal	Shane Arthurs, HS-Oklahoma City, Ok.	P
49	San Francisco	Dan McKinley, Arizona St.	OF
50	Minnesota	Matthew LeCroy, Clemson	C