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From A-Rod ... to a guy named Chilcott

By Alan Schwarz
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, June 2, 2005

We can say one thing about the baseball draft – it's never predictable. Even with one of the top 15 picks, you can't know beforehand if you're going to get a star or a black hole. Don't believe us? Check out the best and worst names to come out of the first 15 slots ever since the draft began in 1965: Rodriguez 1. Best: Alex Rodriguez (Mariners, 1993) – It's hard to believe today that up until the last day, Seattle executives were fighting over whether to draft ... Darren Dreifort ...

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