The sandwich round of the 2007 draft is going to be a long one.
EDIT (4:45 Fri): The order of the sandwich round was incorrectly presented earlier. It is correct now (I think).
How long? It's not set in stone yet, but potentially it'll be up to 36 picks, and it'll be at least 25 picks long. By my count there's 11 players remaining who were offered arbitration, but didn't accept. They would give their former team a pick if they switched teams.
As I recently found out, the order of the picks is not on the Elias rankings. Many thanks to the e-mailer who pointed out the correct ordering:
The order of selection in the compensation round does not follow the Elias rankings. The selection order in the compensation round follows the same order as the general order of selection (worst record to best). For example if Tampa Bay were to lose a type 'A' or type 'B' free agent, they would have the first selection in the compensation round regardless of where that free agent ranked according to Elias. The next selection would belong to the next highest drafting team that lost an 'A' or 'B' free agent. In looking at the current situation, the Cubs would have pick #31 based on their 3rd place in the selection order (TB and KC did not lose any free agents deemed worthy of compensation) for losing Juan Pierre. Pick #32 would go to Washington for Soriano, pick #33 to Arizona for Counsell and so on.
Here's the list, and the order of the picks:In the event a team, like the Blue Jays this year, loses multiple free agents the selection order goes through an entire rotation, then the order would repeat itself, again in reverse order of finish, for any teams that lost a second free agent, then again for a third free agent and so on and so forth.
| Pick | Team | Player Lost |
| 1 | Chicago | Pierre |
| 2 | Washington | Soriano |
| 3 | Arizona | Counsell |
| 4 | San Francisco | Schmidt |
| 5 | Seattle | Meche |
| 6 | Atlanta | Baez |
| 7 | Cincinnati | Aurilia |
| 8 | Texas | Matthews |
| 9 | Philadelphia | Dellucci |
| 10 | Boston | Gonzalez |
| 11 | Toronto | Speier |
| 12 | Dodgers | Lugo |
| 13 | San Diego | Roberts |
| 14 | Angels | Kennedy |
| 15 | Oakland | Thomas |
| 16 | Detroit | Walker |
| 17 | NY Mets | Hernandez |
| 18 | Washington | Guillen |
| 19 | San Francisco | Alou |
| 20 | Texas | DeRosa |
| 21 | Toronto | Catalonotto |
| 22 | San Diego | Williams |
| 23 | San Francisco | Stanton |
| 24 | Texas | C Lee |
| 25 | Toronto | Lilly |
Barry Zito Jeff Suppan Mark Mulder David Wells Ron Villone Chan Ho Park Scott Schoeneweis Miguel Batista Keith Foulke Alan Embree Ryan Klesko
#16 (from the Rangers)The Star had a short article this morning, quoting Jays scouting director Jon Lalonde.
#21 (own 1st round pick)
#42 (for Speier)
#52 (for Cat)
#55 (for Lilly)
#71 (own 2nd round pick)
#74 (from the Angels)
#101 (own 3rd round pick)
"I'm excited,'' said scouting director Jon Lalonde. "I think it's going to be a good (draft) year, strongest at high school position players, weakest at college-level pitchers. It's a good time for us to get some young guys (high schoolers) and just let 'em play ... percolate, as they say.''The strengths and weaknesses of the draft according to Lalonde don't match up with BA's top 50 list. Here's a breakdown of BA's top 50:
Ricciardi also mentioned the Jays taking high school players in the 07 draft as well. I suspect that the success of Travis Snider played a part in this thinking. What will really be interesting is to see if the Jays venture into the high school pitching waters.
- 17 college pitchers
- 8 college hitters
- 11 high school hitters
- 14 high school pitchers
https://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20061208085322507