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 Major League Baseball’s 2008 First-Year Player Draft will be carried live by ESPN2 from 2:00-6:00 p.m. (EDT) today (Thursday). The Draft will be held at The Milk House at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Several of the top prospects will be invited to attend the Draft, which will be free to the public.
ESPN2 will air the choices made in both the first round, when there will be five minutes in between picks, and the compensation round, when there will be one minute in between selections. Following the pick-by-pick coverage through the compensation round, ESPN2’s telecast will continue as the Draft is ongoing until 6:00 p.m. (EDT). In-total, ESPN2 will air the first 46 selections. After the completion of ESPN2’s coverage, the first day of the Draft will proceed until approximately 9:00 p.m. (EDT). On Friday, June 6th, the Draft will resume at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) and then will continue through its conclusion. MLB.com will also be covering the event providing every selection from rounds two through 50, representing more than 96% of the nearly 1,500 selections. Prior to the start of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball will hold a Special Negro Leagues Player Draft. Each Major League Club will “draft” surviving former Negro League players, who will represent every player who did not have the opportunity to play Major League Baseball.
The Special Negro Leagues Player Draft will begin at 1:00 p.m. (EDT), when the pre-assigned selections of the Major League Clubs will be announced and each Negro Leagues alumnus will be honored, wearing the cap of the selecting Club. All living former Negro Leaguers who did not play for Major League organizations were eligible for consideration. The festivities will be broadcast live on MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball. See details of each of the Negro Leagues players that will be selected as part of MLB’s special “Draft” The selection order of the First-Year Player Draft is determined by the reverse order of finish at the close of the previous championship season. The Tampa Bay Rays will have the first selection of the 2008 Draft.  (Select the image provided to see the 2008 Draft pick order - PDF)
Compensation picks have been assigned to Clubs whose Type A or Type B free agents signed with other Clubs and/or to Clubs who did not sign a selection from the first three rounds of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft. Two clubs, the Minnesota Twins and the New York Mets, will have two first-round choices. The Draft will have 50 rounds and will conclude after all 30 teams have passed on a selection or after the final selection of the 50th round, whichever comes first. Source: Major League Baseball
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