The MLB Draft doesn’t receive the fanfare that other leagues like the NBA and NFL, but that moment of elation for draftees is still the same. Forty years ago, when the New York Mets took Darryl Strawberry first overall, the future All-Star was hanging out in high school when he heard the news.
“I was excited about it. My mom dropped me off at school, and I kind of figured I was going to be drafted, I just didn’t know where,” Strawberry told WFAN’s Joe Benigno & Evan Roberts. “I knew a lot of scouts had been talking to me, and I knew the Mets were considering me or Billy Beane, they weren’t sure which one.