The first round of the First Annual Baseball Blogger Mock Draft has just been completed. Here are the results:

1. Tampa Bay Rays- Buster Posey, C, Florida State (Keith Law)
2. Pittsburgh Pirates- Pedro Alvarez, 3B, Vanderbilt (Bucco Blog)
3. Kansas City Royals- Tim Beckham, SS, Griffin GA HS (Royals Authority)
4. Baltimore Orioles-Brian Matusz, LHP, San Diego
5. San Francisco Giants - Justin Smoak, 1B, South Carolina (El Lefty Malo)
6. Florida Marlins-Kyle Skipworth, C, Patriot HS, Calif. (Future Fish)
7. Cincinnati Reds- Gordon Beckham, SS, Georgia (Reds Minor Leagues)
8. Chicago White Sox- Brett Wallace, 3B/1B, ASU (Zoner Sports)
9. Washington Nationals - Yonder Alonso, 1B, Miami (Nationals Farm Authority)
10. Houston Astros - Aaron Crow, RHP, Missouri (Kiley of Saber-Scouting)
11. Texas Rangers - Eric Hosmer, 1b, American Heritage HS, Fla. (Rangers Farm Authority)
12. Oakland Athletics - Ethan Martin, 3B/RHP, Stephens County HS, Ga. (Taj of Athletics Nation)
13. St. Louis Cardinals - Christian Friedrich, LHP, Eastern Kentucky (Erik of Future Redbirds)
14. Minnesota Twins - Jemile Weeks, 2B, Miami (SethSpeaks)
15. Los Angeles Dodgers - Tim Melville, RHP, Holt HS, Wentzville, MO
16. Milwaukee Brewers - Brett Lawrie, 3B/C, Brookwood SS, Langley, B.C. (Patrick Ebert of Brewerfan.net)
17. Toronto Blue Jays - Shooter Hunt, P, Tulane (Pistol of Batters Box)
18. New York Mets - Jason Castro, C, Stanford (Andrew of Hot Foot)
19. Chicago Cubs - Casey Kelly, SS, Sarsota Florida (HS) (Joe from View from the Bleachers)
20. Seattle Mariners - Aaron Hicks, RHP/OF, Wilson HS, Long Beach, CA (David Cameron from USS Mariner)
21. Detroit Tigers–Joshua Fields, RHP, Georgia (Erik of Future Redbirds)
22. New York Mets- Ike Davis, 1B/OF, Arizona State (Hot Foot)
23. San Diego Padres- Andrew Cashner, RHP, TCU (Geoff Young of Ducksnorts)
24. Philadelphia Phillies- Tanner Scheppers, RHP, Fresno St. (Phuture Phillies)
25. Colorado Rockies- Zach Collier, OF, Chino Hills HS, Chino Hills, Calif. (Tom of Up in the Rockies)
26. Arizona Diamondbacks-Allan Dykstra, 1B, Wake Forest (From RJ of Beyond the Boxscore)
27. Minnesota Twins-Conor Gillaspie, 3B, Wichita St. (SethSpeaks)
28. New York Yankees-Gerrit Cole, RHP, Lutheran HS, Calif. (River Ave. Blues)
29. Cleveland Indians-Tyson Ross, RHP, California (Bryan Smith, Baseball Prospectus)
30. Boston Red Sox-Reese Havens, SS, South Carolina (The College Baseball Blog

The Mets are in a very interesting position with their two first round picks. Our organizational depth has been ranked as low as 29th in the major leagues. So, that would tell you that we need to draft the best available talent to try and revamp our depleted system. But, we are also aging at Catcher, 1B, 2B, and SP with not too many minor league options to use as fillers on the major league roster, so that would tell you that we need to select more MLB-ready college players.

Castro is a 6′3″, 210 lb. junior catcher for Stanford. Castro, a left-handed hitter currently leads the Cardinal this season with a .373 batting average and 56 RBI. He is second on the club with 11 home runs. More impressively, he has thrown out 27 of 68 attempted base stealers.

I was not looking to take Castro at 18, but Minaya may be worried that the Tigers will snag him with the 21st pick. Being a former catcher himself, I can see Minaya leaning towards Castro with his first pick, and being a Stanford man, you can deduce that he will get along well with Rick Peterson in game planning.

Davis is a 6′4″ 205 lb. junior first baseman/outfielder for Arizona St. Also a lefty, he has drawn comparisons to Shawn Green. He is the son of former Yankees and Twins closer Ron Davis, who earned 130 saves over his 11-year career.  Currently, Davis is batting .381 with 16 homers, 69 RBI, and a .455 OBP. He is second on the team in all of those categories to 3B Brett Wallace, who we projected to go 8th overall to the Chicago White Sox.

Again, there were several very talented high school players available in Collier and Cole, but Davis is very advanced and could be playing first base at Citi Field by mid-2009. We are going to continue with the sandwich round and I will post who I select with the 33rd overall pick later today.