19 MLB First-Round Draft Picks You Completely Forgot About

Chicago Cubs third baseman Josh Vitters reacts after being tagged out at home by the Colorado Rockies during the eighth inning at Wrigley Field. The Cubs won 5-3.
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First-round picks in the MLB Draft are supposed to be future stars, franchise cornerstones, and faces of the league. But not every name called early ends up etched in baseball history—or even remembered at all.Some had short stints in the majors, others got lost in the shuffle of crowded farm systems, and a few just flat-out vanished. Here are first-round picks that once had big league dreams but ended up as baseball trivia questions.

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