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The best draft pick on each MLB team’s active roster

You’re Carlos Correa, and this all started on Draft Day 2012.

The Astros, it was thought, would select either Byron Buxton, a high-school outfielder from Georgia, or Mark Appel, a right-handed pitcher from Stanford.

When they chose you, Carlos Correa, made you the first No. 1 overall pick from Puerto Rico at age 17, it was a bit of a shock.

Brilliant, as it turned out – the Astros signed you for $4.8 million, $2.4 million under slot, then used their savings to grab a high-school right-hander named Lance McCullers at No.