MLB Draft day is officially here (follow the results with our MLB Draft Tracker), and while baseball's first-year player selection process hardly elicits the same excitement, hype or drama as its cousins in the NBA and NFL, it's still an enormously important day for every franchise.Don't believe us? Just ask the Rays, who ascended all the way to the World Series last year in part thanks to their shrewd drafting. Or the Pirates and their fans, who have watched the team sink further and further with a series of poor picks.
With such a momentous day upon us, the MLB FanHouse team will be covering the draft (first round broadcast live on the MLB Network at 6 PM ET) from every angle. Ed Price will be on site in Secaucus, N.J., Andrew Johnson will be at Nationals Park in Washington, where Nationals brass will make the No. 1 and No. 10 overall selections, and the rest of the team, along with a special guest or two, will be live chatting during the proceedings.
After the jump read a wrapup of the first-round chat.



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