Major League Baseball first-year player draft 2018: Oregon's best-ever picks, round-by-round

Motoya NakamuraIf there’s a professional sports draft that is an inexact science, it’s major league baseball. The league is littered with players who were taken as the 300th, 400th and 500th pick during a given year’s draft, and became stars. It’s no different with wannabe big leaguers from Oregon (based on their high school).

Of the first 20 rounds, Oregon has turned out at least one player to make the major leagues in all but two rounds. The state’s lowest draft pick ever to make the big leagues? Well, you’ll have to scroll to the bottom to find out. Here is Oregon’s best player from each round of the draft, down through the 52nd round (which no longer exists). Many of the lower rounds…