MLB No. 1 picks
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MLB No. 1 picks
Order by the year each player went first overall. You place all 56 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
56
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the MLB No. 1 draft picks timeline
This deck is made up of players taken first overall in the MLB draft, and the goal is to sort them by draft year. The team that made the pick is printed below each name. One pick sits on the timeline at the start, year showing. Drop each new card into the gap you think fits. A correct placement shows the year; a miss sends the player to his true spot and takes away one of your three lives.
Superstars sit alongside picks who never became household names, and those quiet picks are where runs fall apart. Remember that a player is drafted years before most fans hear of him, so a career you followed closely began earlier than it feels. Team names give real hints when a franchise has since moved or changed its name, but some clubs picked first again and again across the deck.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 53 times. An average run places 3.8 cards, and 56% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Dave Roberts missed 83% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- Mark Appel missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Harold Baines missed 71% of the time, usually by a single place
The safest card is Jackson Holliday, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 56 cards you might be dealt, with 28 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Rick Monday Kansas City Athletics
- Danny Goodwin (high school) Chicago White Sox
- David Clyde Texas Rangers
- Danny Goodwin (Southern University) California Angels
- Harold Baines Chicago White Sox
- Al Chambers Seattle Mariners
- Mike Moore Seattle Mariners
- Tim Belcher Minnesota Twins
- B.J. Surhoff Milwaukee Brewers
- Ken Griffey Jr. Seattle Mariners
- Ben McDonald Baltimore Orioles
- Brien Taylor New York Yankees
- Alex Rodriguez Seattle Mariners
- Darin Erstad California Angels
- Matt Anderson Detroit Tigers
- Josh Hamilton Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Joe Mauer Minnesota Twins
- Delmon Young Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Justin Upton Arizona Diamondbacks
- David Price Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Stephen Strasburg Washington Nationals
- Gerrit Cole Pittsburgh Pirates
- Mark Appel Houston Astros
- Dansby Swanson Arizona Diamondbacks
- Royce Lewis Minnesota Twins
- Adley Rutschman Baltimore Orioles
- Henry Davis Pittsburgh Pirates
- Paul Skenes Pittsburgh Pirates
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