The Los Angeles Dodgers 2014 Draft Picks

The Major League Baseball Draft may be the hardest of all of the professional sports to predict when it comes to predicting who is going to make it to "The Show". Most baseball draft picks that are taken from high school, toil in the minor leagues for 4 or 5 years before they even get a September call up. College players, because of their age, have a much shorter window than that. College players after 4 or 5 years transition from being "prospects" to "suspects." Only 3 of the Dodgers #1 Draft picks in the past ten years have made it to the professional level. 2006 pick Clayton Kershaw, 2007 pick Chris Withrow, and 2008 pick Ethan Martin albeit with the Philadelphia Phillies have spent time at the major league level. The Dodgers drafted high school right-handed pitcher Grant Holmes from Conway, SC in the First Round of this years draft at #22. The Dodgers drafted 20 pitchers and 20 position players. 32 high school players and 8 college players. Several players selected will probably change positions before their career is over. Aaron Miller, drafted as a Pitcher, is now a DH/Outfielder with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, the high Class A team of the Dodgers. He made it as high as AA Chattanooga before arm problems necessitated the switch. It will be 2018 or 2019 before we know the true value of this draft.