There were a couple APBA baseball league drafts that went on last weekend. I already hit on the Illowa APBA League weekend as well as the draft that I took part in. There were a couple others too.
The Mid-West Baseball League had their draft on Saturday. Stray Corrado does a bang-up job keeping everyone on time during their all-day draft. According to Stray, there were 336 picks chosen from 9:45am to 4:30pm and it seemed to go off without a hitch.
Top Ten picks in MWBL
| 1 | deGrom, Jacob |
| 2 | Lindor, Francisco |
| 3 | Swihart, Blake |
| 4 | Syndergaard, Noah |
| 5 | Bradley, Archie |
| 6 | Stephenson, Robert |
| 7 | Kolek, Tyler |
| 8 | Moncada, Yoan |
| 9 | Tomas, Yasmani |
| 10 | Pompey, Dalton |
You can see the results of the MWBL draft here.
The Transcontinental Baseball League also drafted on Saturday. Like the IAL, Jose Abreu was the #1 pick in their draft. The TBL’s rookie draft is slightly larger than my league’s but there are a lot of other similarities.
Top Ten picks in the TBL
| 1 | ABREU,Jose |
| 2 | SANTANA,Danny |
| 3 | ODOR,Rougned |
| 4 | VENTURA,Yordano |
| 5 | HARRISON,Josh |
| 6 | SOLER,Jorge |
| 7 | BOGAERTS,Xander |
| 8 | BETTS,Mookie |
| 9 | POLANCO,Gregory |
| 10 | SPRINGER,George |
You can see the full results of the TBL draft on their website.
And for good measure again…
Top Ten picks in the IAL
| 1 | Abreu, J. |
| 2 | Soler, J. |
| 3 | Springer, G. |
| 4 | Ventura, J. |
| 5 | deGrom, J. |
| 6 | Hamilton, B. |
| 7 | Bogaerts, X. |
| 8 | Betances, D. |
| 9 | Betts, M. |
| 10 | Stroman, M. |
Keep in mind that the MWBL is a more complex league that drafts young uncarded players from the minors which would explain why their draft results might deviate a lot.
This was brought up to me already by Bob Gordon. Polanco went early in the TBL draft. Did the IAL’s Upperdeckers get a steal?
