An additional player will be allocated to each expansion team before the annual draft on April 27.

Such players would probably cost the Mets a pick in the annual amateur draft.

Since its inception, annual drafts have followed, except for in 2003.

The team also had passed over future stars for less able players in the annual draft.

It was the 17th annual draft to take place.

They now own the first pick in the annual draft, which will be held June 28 in Toronto.

There will not be many, if any, players from the Northeast selected today in the first round of the major league baseball annual draft.

An annual draft of college players was first held in 1936.

Deciding which players to select in the annual draft of college livestock.

In fact, only nine players were picked in the annual draft of talent from the minor leagues.