Baseball’s Drafted Long-Shots
Baseball’s most successful long-shot, Mike Piazza, was drafted by theDodgers as a favor to his father. He’s pictured below.
Here’s a list of players who made the majors, in spite of being drafted [and signed that year] higher than 999. Who ‘da thunk?
1,000 Sadler, Carl
1,002 Hart, Bo
1,006 Ibañez, Raúl
1,007 Mathews, T.J.
1,009 Dingman, Craig
1,009 Frederick, Kevin
1,009 Gaudin, Chad
1,015 Morman, Alvin
1,017 Scott, Tony
1,024 Wheeler, Dan
1,026 Cowens, Al
1,026 Claussen, Brandon
1,027 Hollins, Jessie
1,029 Fletcher, Paul
1,029 Fasano, Sal
1,030 Barker, Richie
1,038 Heflin, Bronson
1,046 Peters, Chris
1,056 Howard, Chris
1,058 Clapp, Stubby
1,063 James, Mike
1,063 Raabe, Brian
1,074 Lindsey, Rod
1,078 Franklin, Wayne
1,079 Berg, Dave
1,079 Foster, Kris
1,084 Snyder, Earl
1,085 Spivey, Junior
1,093 Mahoney, Mike
1,098 Mohler, Mike
1,100 Tremie, Chris
1,102 Sutko, Glenn
1,103 Cintrón, Álex
1,118 Porter, Bo
1,120 Young, Eric
1,135 Schmidt, Curt
1,135 Tankersley, Dennis
1,136 Jones, Terry
1,137 Shields, Scot
1,138 Figga, Mike
1,138 Kubenka, Jeff
1,139 Buehrle, Mark
1,140 Jones, Bobby
1,143 Ingram, Garey
1,148 Jackson, Damian
1,151 Ausmus, Brad
1,151 Cather, Mike
1,155 Curtis, Chad
1,155 Otero, Ricky
1,157 Isringhausen, Jason
1,157 Baptist, Travis
1,169 Glauber, Keith
1,193 Lugo, Julio
1,197 Patterson, Danny
1,197 Spencer, Sean
1,198 Miller, Paul
1,212 Perry, Chan
1,225 Conine, Jeff
1,226 Wilson, Vance
1,230 Nelson, Bry
1,246 Spurling, Chris
1,252 Pelaez, Alex
1,252 Jones, Greg
1,260 Crawford, Carlos
1,261 Menechino, Frank
1,261 Sabel, Erik
1,278 Turang, Brian
1,280 Hudson, Orlando
1,286 Nieves, Wilbert
1,290 Farnsworth, Kyle
1,293 May, Darrell
1,300 Ferrari, Anthony
1,311 Hocking, Denny
1,314 Williams, Todd
1,323 Wilkins, Marc
1,326 Miadich, Bart
1,328 Shiell, Jason
1,333 Valdez, Mario
1,348 Voyles, Brad
1,350 Penn, Shannon
1,351 Brown, Adrian
1,353 Patterson, Jeff
1,354 Grundt, Ken
1,359 Garcia, Mike
1,360 Bowles, Brian
1,363 Guzmán, Edwards
1,390 Piazza, Mike
1,391 Bernard, Marvin
1,392 Chavez, Anthony
1,437 Woodward, Chris
1,438 Politte, Cliff
1,451 Speier, Justin
1,454 Young, Danny
1,468 Mann, Jim
1,487 Kapler, Gabe
1,493 Gipson, Charles
1,498 Mackowiak, Rob
1,511 Giles, Marcus
1,559 Riske, David
1,560 Koonce, Graham
1,587 Villafuerte, Brandon
1,627 Santiago, José
1,664 Maxwell, Jason
1,716 Seabol, Scott
1,719 Phelps, Travis
Comfortably Zoned with Ralph Zig Tyko 
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