Record 15 Sun Devils selected In 2008 Major League Baseball Draft

June 05, 2008

A school record 15 Arizona State Sun Devils were drafted in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft, including two First Rounders. Brett Wallace Ike Davis went #18 overall to the New York Mets. Arizona State has now had 24 players taken in the first round of the draft all-time and leads all schools with 367 players taken since the draft began in 1965. went #13 overall to the St. Louis Cardinals, while

Wallace and Davis are the sixth set of Sun Devil teammates to be picked in the first round of the draft, and the first since Ryan Bradley and Dan McKinley in 1997. Travis Buck was the last Sun Devil to go in the first round, going 36th overall in the 2005 draft to the Oakland Athletics.

The modern record for players selected in the MLB Draft was 12 in 2003.

2008 ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVIL DRAFTEES

ROUND NUMBER PLAYER TEAM

1 13 Brett Wallace St. Louis Cardinals

1 18 Ike Davis New York Mets

3 90 Petey Paramore Oakland Athletics

4 135 Jason Kipnis San Diego Padres

6 197 Kiel Roling Colorado Rockies

10 300 Stephen Sauer Chicago White Sox

14 439 Reyes Dorado Los Angeles Angels

15 469 Marcel Champagnie Los Angeles Angels

21 633 Dustin Brader Texas Rangers

23 687 Jason Jarvis San Francisco Giants

23 701 Ryan Sontag Chicago Cubs

25 743 Josh Satow Tampa Bay Rays

28 833 Tommy Rafferty Tampa Bay Rays

29 890 Mike Jones New York Yankees

34 1038 Jake Elmore Arizona Diamondbacks