1996 Major League Baseball Draft

The 1996 First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball's annual amateur draft of high school and college baseball players, was held on June 4 and 5, 1996. A total of 1739 players were drafted over the course of 100 rounds.

First round selections

Supplemental first round selections

Other notable players

• Jacque Jones, 2nd round, 37th overall
• Milton Bradley, 2nd round, 40th overall
• Jimmy Rollins, 2nd round, 46th overall
• Nick Johnson, 3rd round, 89th overall
• Joe Crede, 5th round, 137th overall
• Brad Penny, 5th round, 155th overall
• Casey Blake, 7th round, 189th overall
• Mark DeRosa, 7th round, 212th overall
• Justin Duchscherer, 8th round, 241st overall
• Doug Davis, 10th round, 293rd overall
• Shea Hillenbrand, 10th round, 301st overall
• John McDonald, 12th round, 363rd overall
• Chad Bradford, 13th round, 377th overall
• Kevin Gregg, 15th round, 435th overall
• Roy Oswalt, 23rd round, 684th overall
• Ted Lilly, 23rd round, 688th overall
• Kyle Lohse, 29th round, 862nd overall
• Travis Hafner, 31st round, 923rd overall
• Marcus Giles, 53rd round, 1511th overall

Future major leaguers Mike González (17th round, 486th overall), Mark Hendrickson (19th round, 563rd overall), Aaron Harang (22nd round, 661st overall), Orlando Hudson (33rd round, 969th overall), Chris Capuano (45th round, 1315th overall), Juan Pierre (48th round, 1405th overall), Jason Jennings (54th round, 1530th overall), and Barry Zito (59th round, 1586th overall) were also selected during this draft, but did not sign with the teams that selected them. González, Hendrickson, and Hudson were subsequently drafted for the last time in 1997, Pierre in 1998, and Harang, Capuano, Jennings, and Zito in 1999.

See also

• Major League Baseball
• Major League Baseball Draft
• List of MLB first overall draft choices
• Rule 5 Draft

External links

• Complete draft list from The Baseball Cube database
• MLB.com's section on the draft