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Byline: Paul White Baseball's Aug.15 cutoff for signing draft picks is developing as much suspense as the annual July31 trade deadline. Ten of this year's 30 first-round selections are among [...]

Byline: Paul White Players, listed alphabetically, to watch for early in today's baseball draft (2 p.m. ET, ESPN2) *Yonder Alonso, 1B, Miami (Fla.): The big left-handed power hitter is especially [...]

Byline: Paul White ATLANTA -- Tim Beckham wasn't sure he wanted to be a baseball player. Gordon Beckham wanted nothing but. Their careers -- as baseball players -- will be [...]

Byline: BRIAN MAHONEY; The Associated Press Lucky Lefty and Larry Legend are the latest characters looking for a big score in New Jersey. New coach Mike D'Antoni will try to [...]

Byline: Mel Antonen Anyone who says the integrity of the baseball season diminishes because of the September call-up rule is overreacting. Division races aren't altered because some 21-year-old from Class [...]

Byline: Hal Bodley Of all the issues Major League Baseball has confronted over the years, none is more perplexing than its amateur draft. To say it's been a work in [...]

Byline: Paul White Beau Mills already has 42 professional games under his belt. Dan Moskos just got his first promotion. But 13 other first-round picks in this June's baseball draft [...]

Byline: David DuPree NEW YORK -- The Florida Gators, back-to-back NCAA champions, made NBA draft history Thursday with their three biggest stars -- Al Horford, Corey Brewer and Joakim Noah [...]

Byline: Daniel Pauling Three weeks after baseball's draft, teams are scrambling to sign their picks. Six first-rounders, two of whom have signed, discussed the potential jump from high school star [...]

Byline: Hal Bodley Watching baseball's four-hour telecast of its first-year player draft Thursday afternoon was like going to the movies and not knowing any of the actors. The players might [...]

Byline: Paul White LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Josh Vitters wasn't the first pick of baseball's annual first-year player draft, but he'll always remember his little piece of baseball history. [...]

Byline: Paul White If the Tampa Bay Devil Rays take left-handed pitcher David Price with the first pick in today's first-year player draft, the countdown will begin. After all, the [...]

Byline: Devin Clancy It's likely none of the players taken in Thursday's draft will have any fantasy impact this season. But several from the past few seasons' drafts are worth [...]

Byline: Michael Hiestand Eye black is fine for a while. But this month 20 NFL players will find out if they have what it takes to step up to pancake [...]

Byline: Christopher Lawlor Pete Kozma is less than a week away from the crossroads. Kozma, a shortstop from Owasso High in Oklahoma, will learn Thursday which team will select him [...]

Byline: Andy Gardiner When David Price made the 35-mile trip from his hometown of Murfreesboro, Tenn., to the Vanderbilt campus in Nashville three years ago, he was a gangly teenager, [...]

Major League Baseball holds its annual first-year-player draft next Thursday. For the first time, there will be a universal cutoff date to sign (Aug. 15), after which a club loses [...]

Byline: Andy Gardiner *Casey Weathers, Vanderbilt, senior right-hander -- With a mid-90s fastball and sharp slider, Weathers has gone 11-2 with seven saves, a 2.64 ERA and 67 strikeouts in [...]

In a perfect world, the Indians would have at every position a player who could play every day, hit right- and left-handed pitchers equally well and maintain continuity in the [...]

Byline: Sam Carchidi Jun. 7--For Bishop Eustace Prep shortstop Billy Rowell, it was a day for the ages. About 1:15 p.m. yesterday, Rowell became the first South Jersey high school [...]

Byline: Todd Zolecki Jun. 7--PHOENIX -- In the past, the Phillies have not been afraid to draft high-risk, high-reward talent. Is Kyle Drabek that type of pick? The Phillies selected [...]

Byline: Sam Carchidi Jun. 7--Lenape High senior Sean Black, who did not win a game as a junior, was selected by the Washington Nationals in the second round of Major [...]

Gov. Bill Richardson has admitted that his claim to have been a draft pick of the Kansas City A's in 1966 was untrue. The claim was included in a brief […]

Byline: Rod Beaton A common misconception is that the best way to measure a Major League Baseball team's amateur scouting is the performance of its No.1 draft pick. But there [...]

Byline: Rod Beaton Justin Upton and his agent, Larry Reynolds, are taking a wait-and-see approach regarding contract talks with the Arizona Diamondbacks after the team made the 17-year-old the No. [...]

Byline: Mel Antonen Assuming no contract snags, relief pitchers selected in this week's baseball draft could be in the majors to help contending teams settle their bullpen. The Atlanta Braves [...]

Byline: Mel Antonen Justin Upton spent Tuesday morning going to his English and physical education classes at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, Va. He 'hung out' for 90 minutes [...]

Picks from Tuesday's first-year player draft. First-round picks and analysis, 8C: *Sandwich picks (compensation) 31. Arizona: Matthew Torra, RHS, Massachusetts 32. Colorado: Chaz Roe, RHS, Lafayette HS, Lexington, Ky. 33. [...]

Byline: Rod Beaton USA TODAY breaks down the first-round picks in Tuesday's draft: 1. Arizona, SS Justin Upton, Great Bridge (Va.) High: The Diamondbacks believe Upton has the speed, size, [...]

Byline: Erik Brady CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- The story of sibling rivalry is as old as Cain and Abel. It plays out in families around the world every day. When B.J. [...]

The Mets, picking 18th in today's first-year player draft, took Aaron Heilman, a right-handed pitcher from Notre Dame. They drafted in Colorado's first-round position because they lost Mike Hampton, a […]

David Walling, the Yankees' No. 1 draft pick in 1999, will make a decision on whether he wants to continue playing baseball in the next few weeks, his agent said […]

The Mets waited until Dec. 23 last year to add Mike Hampton to their starting rotation. This year, they may have to wait nearly as long to bring him back. […]

In the end, Billy Traber decided, he just wanted to play baseball. If he turns out to be a No. 3 starter in the majors, as the Mets believe, he […]

Luis Polonia was in the backseat of a limousine heading from Newark Airport to a hotel in midtown Manhattan yesterday afternoon and trying to figure out the best way to […]