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On November 18, 1997, Major League Baseball (MLB) held an expansion draft to allow two expansion teams, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, to build their rosters prior to debuting in the National League West and American League East divisions, respectively, in the 1998 MLB season.
In June 1991, the expansion committee accepted the bids of the Miami and Denver groups to debut in 1993. [3] [9] Expansion was approved unanimously by all teams in July 1991. [7] An expansion draft to stock both franchises was set for November 1992. [7]
The draft order was determined by a coin toss, the winner of which could choose either: (a) the first overall pick in the expansion draft and the 28th, and last, pick in the first round of the 1993 MLB amateur draft; or (b) allow the other team to pick first and receive both the second and third overall expansion draft picks, the right to pick ...
1993–1997: 14 1998–2012: 16 2013 ... "Arizona Baseball, Inc.", to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team. ... Total teams after draft 1960: 2
Roughly a month after a solid performance during the 1997 World Series, Anderson was the second pick by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 1997 MLB Expansion Draft. In his first full season in the Majors, this time as a starter, Anderson went 12–13 with a 4.33 ERA in 32 starts, including 2 complete games. [ 2 ]
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred made one thing clear: An MLB expansion team is not coming to Nashville — or anywhere — anytime soon. Manfred said during his annual ...
How WNBA handled expansion draft made 2000 difficult. For Dunn, ... Ahead of the league’s founding in 1997 and for the 1998 and 1999 expansion teams, the league allocated players to new teams ...
The 1992 MLB Expansion Draft was held on November 17, 1992. As opposed to previous expansion drafts such as the 1961 draft, players from both leagues were available to the expansion clubs. Each existing club could protect fifteen players on their roster from being drafted and only one player could be drafted from each team in the first round.