1st Overall Picks
This #1 pick was drafted by and spent his entire big-league career with his hometown team, winning an AL MVP in 2009 along the way.
Joe Mauer
This flamethrower was the most recent pitcher to hurl 250+ innings in a season.
Justin Verlander
This player hit 4 HR in one game and finished with a .310 batting average in 2018, but lasted just 42 more games in MLB after.
Scooter Gennett
In Jackie Robinson's first MLB game, he played in this ballpark...
Ebbets Field
Bartolo Colon
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This #1 pick, drafted as a SS, would go on to make 4 all-star games, hit over 300 HRs, and drive-in over 1,000 runs.
Justin Upton
This player has led the league in IBB for each of the last two seasons
Jose Ramirez
This outfielder broke out in a big way in 2021, posting 30 HRs and finishing 8th in NL MVP voting, but hasn't quite been able to live-up to these lofty numbers in the two years since.
Tyler O'Neill
In 1962, the Mets home ballpark was called the...
Polo Grounds
Albert Pujols
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This player is the only #1 pick in the 21st Century to never appear in an MLB game (excluding Jackson Holliday and Paul Skenes).
Brady Aiken
This Southpaw who was fined $10,000 by his team for threatening a reporter, was co-MLB wins leader in 2017 with 18 wins.
Jason Vargas
This pitcher with a rhyming nickname became the most recent (and, let's be honest, last) pitcher to throw double-digit complete games in a season in 2011.
James Shields
This ballpark had the most singles hit inside its confines in 2023.
Coors Field
Babe Ruth
714
This #1 pick is a Mickey Mouse Hall of Famer.
Harold Baines
Craig Kimbrel co-led MLB in saves for the first (and only) time of his career in 2013, finishing tied with this pitcher who recorded his second consecutive 50-save season.
Jim Johnson
This otherwise decent hitter peaked hard in 2008, posting the only season of his 12-year career with: 40+ doubles, 30+ HRs, an OPS+ north of 150, an all-star nod, and MVP votes.
Ryan Ludwick
This stadium is the oldest still operating in the world of Minor League Baseball.
Jackie Robinson Ballpark
Curtis Granderson
344
This first-ever and Garfield-disapproved #1 pick (by the Kansas City Athletics) would go on to play 19 big-league seasons.
Rick Monday
This speedster is the most recent player to swipe 100 bags in a single-season, accomplishing the feat in 1989.
Vince Coleman
This pitcher finished runner-up in the 2003 AL Cy Young race while leading leading it in Ks, but was otherwise average over his 14-year journeyman career.
Esteban Loaiza
This ballpark is considered the "birthplace" of baseball.
Elysian Fields
Carlos Zambrano
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