Baseball's top major league prospects for 2002: some of the most highly rated rookies for the upcoming season include Cleveland outfielder Alex Escobar and Florida pitcher Josh Beckett.(Amercian Baseball League recruiting) From: Baseball Digest | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2002 Century Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

IT'S UNLIKELY THE NEW YORK METS will find Number 7 as lucky in the 2002 major league rookie sweepstakes as the Seattle Mariners did in last year's competition, but you've got to credit them for "rolling the dice."

The Mariners, of course, hit the jackpot in 2001 when they took a chance on Ichiro Suzuki, a Japanese baseball veteran with seven consecutive batting titles in his homeland. All Suzuki did was extend his string of hitting championships to eight in succession by leading the American League with an average of .350 as he captured both the Rookie of the Year and Most ...

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