2004 Draft: Where are they now?
by Ken Arneson
2005-06-02 10:06

The draft is coming up on Tuesday. Mychael Urban has an A’s draft preview on MLB.com. John Sickels is running a mock draft on Sunday.

Baseball America is also kicking into high gear. Here’s their free stuff:
Draft order
Top 200 prospects
Best tools
Pre-draft blog

Looking back at last year’s draft, Huston Street alone makes it a good one. As far as everyone else, it’s still too early to tell. No one else has rocketed up the system like Street. On the other hand, the only early round pick who has struggled badly is Michael Rogers, although Landon Powell’s knee injury puts a big question mark on his long-term prospects as a catcher.

Here’s where the 2004 draftees are now. Some of them were signed and played last year in short-season ball; if they’re not playing now, I’m assuming they’re there still:

Name B/T Ht Wt DoB Rnd Pos Currently
Landon Powell S/R 6’3″ 235 03/19/1982 1 C Injured
Daniel Putnam L/L 5’10” 200 09/17/1982 1 CF A+ Stockton
Huston Street R/R 6’0″ 190 08/02/1983 1 RHP MLB Oakland
Richard Robnett L/L 5’10” 195 09/17/1983 1 CF A+ Stockton
Michael Rogers R/R 6’1″ 195 10/24/1982 2 RHP A- Kane County
Kurt Suzuki R/R 5’11” 200 10/04/1983 2 C A+ Stockton
Jason Windsor R/R 6’2″ 220 07/16/1982 3 RHP AA Midland
Ryan Webb R/R 6’6″ 190 02/05/1986 4 RHP A- Kane County
Kevin Melillo L/R 6’0″ 190 05/14/1982 5 2B A- Kane County
Derek Tharpe L/L 5’11” 188 10/30/1981 6 LHP A- Kane County
Jarod Mcauliff R/R 6’0″ 180 07/24/1982 7 RHP short season?
Myron Leslie S/R 6’3″ 210 05/02/1982 8 3B A- Kane County
Chad Boyd L/L 5’10” 180 04/21/1985 9 OF short season?
Thomas Everidge R/R 6’1″ 215 04/20/1983 10 1B A- Kane County
Steven Sharpe R/R 6’1″ 200 07/20/1981 11 RHP A- Kane County
Nicholas Blasi R/R 5’9″ 185 09/23/1981 12 LF A- Kane County
Scott Drucker R/R 6’1″ 192 05/30/1982 13 RHP A+ Stockton
Jorge Charry R/R 6’1″ 185 12/10/1986 14 RHP unsigned
Ryan Ford L/L 6’3″ 195 07/10/1982 15 LHP A- Kane County
Tyler Best L/R 0’0″ 0 04/24/1981 16 C short season?
Clay Tichota R/R 6’4″ 210 11/26/1981 17 RHP A- Kane County
Jeremy Slayden L/R 6’0″ 185 07/28/1982 18 OF unsigned
Ryan Ruiz R/R 5’8″ 180 10/18/1981 19 SS A- Kane County
Robert Semerano R/R 6’1″ 185 07/18/1981 20 RHP A- Kane County
Chalon Tietje R/R 6’1″ 195 06/11/1982 21 RF A- Kane County
Ryan Jones L/L 5’10” 180 09/28/1981 22 CF short season?
Shawn Martinez R/R 6’3″ 235 03/07/1982 23 RHP short season?
Dallas Braden L/L 6’1″ 185 08/13/1983 24 LHP AA Midland
James Conroy R/R 6’3″ 185 11/04/1982 25 RHP unsigned
Steven-Ryder Carter R/R 6’3″ 220 06/09/1980 26 RHP short season?
Clayton Turner R/R 6’0″ 190 02/10/1982 27 RHP unsigned
Andre Piper-Jordan R/R 6’0″ 195 12/05/1983 28 CF short season?
Wesley Long R/R 0’0″ 0 06/12/1982 29 SS A- Kane County
Haas Pratt R/R 6’3″ 225 09/17/1981 30 1B short season?
Connor Robertson R/R 6’3″ 215 09/10/1981 31 RHP A+ Stockton
Jeffrey Gray R/R 6’2″ 210 11/19/1981 32 RHP short season?
Scott Fairbanks R/R 6’3″ 200 04/26/1981 33 RHP short season?
Yusuf A Carter S/R 6’2″ 205 02/06/1985 34 OF unsigned
Broc C Coffman L/L 03/28/1985 35 LHP unsigned
Matthew Cassel R/R 6’5″ 225 05/17/1982 36 RHP unsigned
Beau Seabury R/R 6’1″ 190 06/13/1985 37 C unsigned
Drew Saberhagen L/L 6’2″ 180 10/26/1985 38 1B unsigned
Joseph A Florio L/R 5’10” 185 07/04/1985 39 SS unsigned
Daniel Figueroa * R/R 5’10” 175 02/19/1983 40 CF unsigned
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