May 28, 200323 yr I saw this on Yahoo today.... Florida Marlins Overall Number One Picks 2002 Jeremy Hermida, of (11h) 2001 none 2000 Adrian Gonzalez, 1b (1h) 1999 Josh Beckett, rhp (2h) 1998 Chip Ambres, of (27h) 1997 Aaron Akin, rhp (12c) 1996 Mark Kotsay, of (9c) 1995 Jaime Jones, of (6h) 1994 Josh Booty, ss (5h) 1993 Marc Valdes, rhp (27c) 1992 Charles Johnson, c (28c) c - out of college h - out of high school
May 29, 200323 yr Gonzalez and Hermida are still young but notice... Beckett has been the only one out of high school to see success, does that say something?
May 29, 200323 yr Author I noticed that also.....the high school kids have too much pressure on them too soon.
May 29, 200323 yr whatever happened to aaron akin i remember joe angel and hutton tlaking aobut him during the 97' series. how did he just disapear??? did we trade him, is he currently in the majors, or is he just out of baseball?
May 29, 200323 yr Akin played in the Marlins system from 1997-2000 with Melbourne, Kane County, and Brevard County. His combined stats were 9-20, 4.42 ERA. He was released by the Marlins 3/19/01. He then signed with New Jersey (Ind.) of the Northern League, was traded to St. Paul of the Northern League where he went 0-0, 12.86 ERA in 2001. Last year, he played for Berkshire of the Northern League where he went 0-7, 5.21 ERA.
May 29, 200323 yr Akin played in the Marlins system from 1997-2000 with Melbourne, Kane County, and Brevard County. His combined stats were 9-20, 4.42 ERA. He was released by the Marlins 3/19/01. He then signed with New Jersey (Ind.) of the Northern League, was traded to St. Paul of the Northern League where he went 0-0, 12.86 ERA in 2001. Last year, he played for Berkshire of the Northern League where he went 0-7, 5.21 ERA. what a waist of a draft pick. he reminds me of a ryan leaf, kijana carter, and an ed pinckney damn that blowz that guy never made it to the majors what about ambres he's been down there pretty long do you guys remember a marlins outfield prospect named billy mcmillon? what ever happened to him
May 29, 200323 yr ed pickney should not be in that classification...he worked himself into a servicable journeyman, namely for hte Celtics of the late 80s early 90s.... Billy McMillion I know was with the Tigers a couple years back, and I know he bounced around with a couple more teams.... Not sure where he is now, I am about 99 percent sure he is not in the bigs....I assume he is still in baseball at some level though, he is probably in his early 30s these days I guess. The Marlins have had too many crap draft picks, going back to the expansion draft. Nigel Wilson was garbage. At least the Rockies #1, David Neid saw some time in the bigs...Wilson didnt do crap, at least not with this or any MLB organization. He did do ok in Japan if i recall.
May 29, 200323 yr Here are Billy McMillon's stats from http://www.milb.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pacific Coast League ? Sacramento River Cats 04/03 to 05/27 AVG G AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB SO SB CS .336 37 152 31 51 35 10 0 8 17 30 1 1 Nice to see him doing well in AAA. I thought he should have made the team with us last year after a decent spring. For what it's worth, here's Jaime Jones' stats: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- California League ? Lancaster JetHawks 04/05 to 05/27 AVG G AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB SO SB CS .318 49 179 32 57 32 7 1 7 10 25 2 1 He is playing in single-A because he is attempting a "comeback" after being out of the game for one or two years.
May 30, 200323 yr Yes- you're correct. Actually, he was just promoted to the majors after Ron Gant's release.
May 30, 200323 yr wow we have had many 1st round busts. I wonder what the % success/fail ratio is for 1st roun picks? :plain
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