The first two picks in the rule five draft went to sons of major league players:
The Baltimore Orioles made high school shortstop Jackson Holliday the first selection in Major League Baseball’s draft on Sunday, but the biggest shock came with the No. 3 overall pick, as the Texas Rangers selected Kumar Rocker, the highly touted pitching prospect who famously did not sign with the New York Mets last season.
Rocker now joins his former Vanderbilt teammate, Jack Leiter, who was picked second overall by the Rangers last year.
High school outfielder Druw Jones, the son of five-time All-Star Andruw Jones, went second overall to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
ESPN.com
Holliday is the son of Matt Holliday. Rocker is not the son of John Rocker, in case you were wondering. 🙂
Update: Jackson Holliday is a bit of a baseball Mozart:
Yeah, the odds of John Rocker naming his son Kumar are lower than the chances of me getting a hit off Max Scherzer.