The Los Angeles Dodgers today selected Northwest Cabarrus High School (Concord, NC) shortstop Corey Seager with their first-round pick (18th overall) and Puerto Rico Baseball Academy shortstop Jesmuel Valentin with the 51st overall pick in the supplemental round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft. Assistant General Manager, Scouting Logan White made the announcement.
Seager, a 6-foot-4, 205-pounder, batted .519 with 10 home runs and 37 RBI this season to earn a selection as the Gatorade North Carolina Baseball Player of the Year. The 18-year-old also stole 13 bases while posting a 1.062 slugging percentage and a .664 on-base percentage. The younger brother of Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager was rated by Baseball America as the top third baseman in the 2012 draft.
“We’re excited to have taken a quality young man,” said White. “He’s athletic, can hit and comes from a great family with the bloodlines we look for.”
Seager was selected for the 2010 USA Baseball 16-and-Under National Team and earned All-Tournament honors by helping Team USA win a gold medal at the Pan-American Games, batting .514 with a home run and 12 RBI in nine games.
Los Angeles drafted a position player with its first selection for the first time since taking James Loney with the 19th overall pick in 2002.
Valentin, 18, is the son of former Dodger infielder Jose Valentin, who played 16 Major League seasons, including the 2005 campaign with Los Angeles. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound switch-hitter was a 2011 Under Armour All-American and Baseball America’s top-rated second baseman heading into the draft.
Below are the Dodgers’ first-round selections since the start of the draft in 1965:
1965 John Wyatt (INF)
1966 Larry Hutton (RHP)
1967 Don Denbow (INF)
1968 Bobby Valentine (OF)
1969 Terry McDermott (C)
1970 Jim Haller (RHP)
1971 Rick Rhoden (RHP)
1972 John Harbin (INF)
1973 Ted Farr (C)
1974 Rick Sutcliffe (RHP)
1975 Mark Bradley (INF)
1976 Mike Scioscia (C)
1977 Bob Welch (RHP)
1978 None
1979 Steve Howe (LHP)
Steve Perry (RHP)
1980 Ross Jones (INF)
1981 Dave Anderso (INF)
1982 Franklin Stubbs (1B)
1983 Erik Sonberg (LHP)
1984 Dennis Livingston (RHP)
1985 Chris Gwynn (OF)
1986 Mike White (OF)
1987 Dan Opperman (RHP)
1988 Bill Bene (RHP)
1989 Kiki Jones (RHP)
Tom Goodwin (OF)
Jamie McAndrew* (RHP)
1990 Ronnie Walden (LHP)
1991 None
1992 Ryan Luzinski* (C)
Michael Moore* (OF)
1993 Darren Dreifort (RHP)
1994 Paul Konerko (C)
1995 David Yocum (LHP)
1996 Damian Rolls (INF)
1997 Glenn Davis (1B)
1998 Bubba Crosby (OF)
1999 Jason Repko* (INF)
2000 Ben Diggins (RHP)
2001 None
2002 James Loney (1B)
Greg Miller* (LHP)
2003 Chad Billingsley (RHP)
2004 Scott Elbert (LHP)
Blake DeWitt (3B)
Justin Orenduff* (RHP)
2005 Luke Hochevar* (RHP)
2006 Clayton Kershaw (LHP)
Bryan Morris* (RHP)
Preston Mattingly* (INF)
2007 Chris Withrow (RHP)
James Adkins* (LHP)
2008 Ethan Martin (RHP)
2009 Aaron Miller* (LHP)
2010 Zach Lee (RHP)
2011 Chris Reed (LHP)
2012 Corey Seager (SS)
Jesmuel Valentin (SS)*
* First-round supplemental pick
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