TCBA Today 1998 Rookie Draft

Rookie Rating Age Team Bid
MATT MORRIS  Gr 14  23 FR  235 
BEN GRIEVE  OF-1  21 LI  203 
NEIFI PEREZ  SS-8  23 MI  193 
JOSE CRUZ Jr  OF-1  25 RH  170 
VLADIMIR GUERRERO  OF-1  22 PO  167 
MIGUEL TEJADA  SS-7  21 HO  142 
JARET WRIGHT  Gr 10  22 WO  100 
LIVAN HERNANDEZ  Gr 18  23 SC  93 
TODD HELTON  OF-1  24 SS  89 
BRETT TOMKO  Gr 13  24 HO  87 
MIKE CAMERON  OF-2  25 KK  85 
KEVIN ORIE  3B-4  25 BR  81 
CHRIS HOLT  Gr 12  26 MI  79 
GARRETT STEPHENSON  Gr 15  25 LG  71 
FERNANDO TATIS  3B-4  23 NE  60 
SHANNON STEWART  OF-2  24 NW  58 
ED SPIEZIO  2B-7  25 CB  55 
TONY SAUNDERS  Gr 9  23 AI  55 
JEFF SUPPAN  Gr 3  22 WO  52 
RICH LOISELLE  Gr 14  25 HO  52 
JASON DICKSON  Gr 10  24 SC  51 
JEREMI GONZALEZ  Gr 11  22 LG  42 
KELVIM ESCOBAR  Gr 18*  21 BT  40 
BRAD RIGBY  Gr 7  24 RI  39 
MARC VALDES  Gr 14*  26 RI  35 
TOM MARTIN  Gr 20*  27 PO  33 
MANNY AYBAR  Gr 9  23 RI  32 
DAN PATTERSON  Gr 14*  27 NW  29 
TONY WOMACK  2B-6  28 SC  28 
CRAIG COUNSELL  2B-8  27 MR  28 
BOB ABREU  OF-1  24 EB  27 
MIKE CATHER  Gr 20*  27 PO  27 
GLENDON RUSCH  Gr 4  23 AI  26 
BRIAN BOEHRINGER  Gr 20*  28 MR  23 
RICARDO RINCON  Gr 13*  27 BT  23 
DMITRI YOUNG  1B-2  24 CB  23 
JASON McDONALD  OF-2  26 ID  23 
CURTIS KING  Gr 15*  27 MI  22 
CORY LIDLE  Gr 11*  26 NE  16 
ANTHONY TELFORD  Gr 14  31 MI  16 
STEVE KARSAY  Gr 2  25 NW  16 
JED HANSEN  2B-6  25 NE  13 
MARIO VALDEZ  1B-4  23 BT  7 
RAMON TATIS  Gr 4  24 BR  5 
Matt Morris
Our rookie draft was held by live in-person auction on January 30, 1998 at our annual meeting, held at the Holiday Inn in Lancaster, PA. Absent members participated by mail bidding.

Matt Morris went to the Farmington River Rats for $235,000, the highest bid made since TCBA Today adopted the live-auction format in 1994. Surprisingly, however, though many teams needed starting pitching help, the next five highest bids (all the other bids over $100,000) went to position players--two shortstops and three outfielders, led by Ben Grieve at $203,000.
Ben Grieve
Ben Grieve, now of the Long Island Islanders
Other high-rated pitchers such as Livan Hernandez, Brett Tomko, Chris Holt and Garrett Stephenson were relative bargains at under $100,000 Those rookies not listed on this page were drafted the next day in our Free Agent Draft, in reverse order of finish.

 Rookies are defined in TCBA as players receiving 80 plate appearances, 25 games pitched, or 10 games started as a pitcher for the first time in their major league career. The successful team and high bid for each player is shown, in thousands of dollars as detailed in the TCBA Constitution (Rules 430-460). As a point of reference, a team's average annual allocation of TCBA money is about $120,000. Pitching grades shown are those used in the TCBA pursuant to our own grading formula.

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