SF Giants select outfielder Dakota Jordan in MLB Draft

The second day of the Major League Baseball Draft got underway when the Oakland Athletics selected Rutgers shortstop Joshua Kuroda-Grauer with the first pick of Round 3 on Monday.

Rounds 3-10 were held Monday after the first two rounds (74 total picks) took place Sunday night. The draft began with the Cleveland Guardians selecting 2B Travis Bazzana from Oregon State.

Some teams’ draft strategies were on full display. The New York Yankees used their first five picks on right-handed pitchers from the college ranks, including Vanderbilt’s Greysen Carter in the fifth round. Notably, Carter’s fastball can reach 103 mph.

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Mississippi State outfielder Dakota Jordan, the highest-ranked player available after Day 1, fell to No. 116 in the fourth round to the San Francisco Giants. Ranked No. 34 on MLB Pipeline’s big board, Jordan passed up football (he played wide receiver) to pursue baseball. He collected 30 home runs, 23 doubles and 112 RBIs in two seasons in Starkville.

Late in the seventh round, the Houston Astros drafted South Alabama outfielder Joseph Sullivan, whose late grandfather Pat Sullivan won the 1971 Heisman Trophy as a quarterback at Auburn. Pat Sullivan went on to play six seasons in the NFL and was a head coach at TCU (1992-97) and Samford (2007-14) before his death in 2019.

The third and final day of the draft is Tuesday, with rounds 11-20.

–Media at field level