What Happened To Your Team’s Most Recent Top Picks In The Draft?

2019 Draft Stars And Busts

• #1 Overall Pick Adley Rutschman by the Orioles has blossomed into one of the games best Backstops, making the AL All Star squad in ’23 and ’24. The 2025 season marks his first dealing with Arbitration, the Orioles paying him a decent $5.5M for the upcoming season.
• #2 Overall Pick Bobby Witt Jr. by the Royals won’t have to worry about things like Arbitration or Free Agency as the Royals handed the young man the largest extension in franchise history in the form of 11-
• years/$288.7M at the beginning of the 2024 season. He will have the opportunity to opt-out after the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th seasons. It’s highly unlikely that the now face of the franchise will do so, as he will be making $35M each of those seasons, making himself cheaper in the earlier years (Only about $48M betweeen 2024-27). Bobby brought fruition to Kansas’ faith in him by turning in the best season he’s had to date in 2024, hitting a league leading .332 in a league leading 161 Games, with a league leading 211 Hits. If he didn’t have Aaron Judge to compete with for MVP, he might’ve won that, along with his first Gold Glove and Silver Slugger. He also mad
• e his first All Star appearance in 2024.
• Riley Greene at #5 overall with the Detroit Tigers has been coming into his own, making his first All Star appearance after debuting in the Majors in 2022. This was his first season playing as Detroit’s everyday Centerfielder, logging 137 Games, his first season in which he played 100 or more Games.
• While there are a couple more All Stars from the First Round in 2019’s Draft, Josh Jung at #8 is the only one to be an All Star AND World Series winner, all by the age of 25.
• The Twins seemed to have fumbled their first round pick at #13 in Keoni Cavaco, an infielder who had promising power for Third Base (akin to Jung), Cavaco hasn’t played above
• High A in the Minors.
• The Angels ended up trading their First Rounder at #15 in Will Wilson along with Zack Cozart to the Giants to clear payroll for moves that never happened in the 2020 offseason due to COVID. Wilson is with the Giants at Triple-A as of the end of the 2024 season, but is not a top 30 prospect according to MLB for the team.