A look at the 2011 draft, Part 2

Now that we've taken our trip down memory lane through the 1st Round of the 2011 DMBL draft, let's have a laugh and cry about some of the other studs and quirky picks a decade later.

The 2011 draft might best be remembered for its 2nd Round rather than its 1st because that's when the the first ineligible prospects came off the board. They worked out so you might remember their names: Mike Trout, 18th overall, to Amityville, and Bryce Harper, 20th overall, to New Jersey, now Hopatcong. A third ineligible prospect was taken with the final pick of that round (fun fact, he's in the 2021 draft pool): Brandon Belt (28th) by Las Vegas, which shifted to San Francisco after an ownership change.

Trout went on to make his debut two seasons later - with Philly. Ahead of the protected list deadline in 2012, Amityville sent the still ineligible prospect to Philly -- with 1B Ike Davis, a 7th in 2012, and 1st and 4th rounders in 2013. In return, Philly packaged SP Jered Weaver, 2B Howie Kendrick and a 9th rounder in 2013. It may sound crazy today but remember that Weaver was 28, coming off two top 5 finishes in Cy Young voting and won 20 in MLB 2012, FWIW. Trout won the Listach and Mitchell Awards in his first year. Ahead of the 2014 season, Philly was among three franchises that folded, with its roster taken over by Allentown. Harper has continued to be a mainstay in the Hopatcong lineup, helping them reach the DMBL finals in 2018.

It wouldn't be the DMBL without players being picked more than once, and that goes for No. 1 overall selections too. SP Vicente Padilla, who went 1st overall in 2003 to Las Vegas ahead of Junior Spivey and Johan f*cking Santana, was drafted in the 3rd round (38th overall) by Sardine City.

1B Freddie Freeman, now a mainstay in the Poovey Farms lineup, was drafted as an ineligible in the 8th round (132nd overall) by Hoboken, traded later that year at the deadline along with SP Justin Materson to Newark for RPs Joel Zumaya and Brian Wilson and OF Lastings Milledge.

While there were no prospects taken in the 1st Round in 2011, mining was hot and heavy in the supplemental rounds, those after Round 15. In the Supplemental 1st, two pitching prospects were taken: Lefty Matt Moore (considered the top pitching prospect in MLB) by Las Vegas with 6th pick (216th overall), and Japanese prospect Yu Darvish at No. 13 (223rd overall) to Newark/Brick City. Darvish would not take a DMBL mound until two seasons later and spent several years with the franchise before developing arm trouble. He was selected in last year's 2nd Round by Marietta, who also picked him in the 5th Round of 2019 off elbow surgery, and is primed for a comeback season with the Mighty Men in DMBL 2021.Ineligible players book-ended the Supplemental 3rd Round and comprised 8 of the 13 picks, including a stretch of four in a row. Some worked out, most didn't:

* Kyle Gibson, SP, 239th overall, Carolina

* Bryan Morris, SP, 240th, Arkansas

* Casey Kelly, SP, 244th, Hillsborough

* Jose Iglesias, SS, 245th, Blue Ridge - also eligible in the 2021 draft.

* Jerry Sands, OF, 246th, Philly

* Gerrit Cole, SP, 247th, Sardine City - One of the more notable selections in the supplemental or any part of this draft, he debuted in 2014 and stuck with the Straphangers for several seasons until he was traded to Livingston in 2018. Cole won the McDonald Award in 2019.

* Tsuyoshi Nishioka, 2B/SS, 249th, Marietta

* Danny Espinosa, 2B, SS, 251st, Bridgewater

Among the late-round prospects drafted with hopes of stardom that didn't quite pan out:

Brett Lawrie in happier times

* Brett Lawrie, 2B, Hoboken, Supplemental 2nd round/239th overall. He would get drafted again as a prospect in 2012, by Livingston in the 1st Round  (No. 9).

* Tanner Scheppers (who?!), C, Hoboken, Supplemental 4th round/255th

* Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C, Hoboken, Supplemental 5th round/267th

* Lonnie Chisenhall, OF, Vancouver, Supplemental 5th round/272nd overall

Mr. Irrelevant was veteran SP Jamie Moyer, taken by Newark as the lone pick of the Supplemental 8th round (288th overall).