Justin Upton Top Pick in Baseball Draft

The Arizona Diamondbacks selected high school shortstop Justin Upton with the first overall selection in baseball's annual draft on Tuesday.

Upton stands 6'1'' and weighs 195 pounds. The 17-year-old is presently a senior at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, Virginia.

'We feel Justin is a potential impact player in the major leagues in the future,' Arizona scouting director Mike Rizzo told Major League Baseball's official Web Site.

'He was the top guy on our board. The college pitching was something that had some allure to us, it was just too tough to pass up this player.'

Upton's brother, BJ Upton is presently with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays AAA affiliate in Durham. The D'Rays selected BJ Upton with the second overall pick in 2002.

Despite the trend towards selecting college pitchers, the first pitcher wasn't taken until the sixth overall pick of the draft when the Blue Jays picked Ricardo Romero of Cal State Fullerton. Seven of the first 10 selections this year were position players.

The rest of the top 10:

2) Kansas City Royals, Alex Gordon, third baseman, University of Nebraska Lincoln

3) Seattle Mariners, Jeffrey Clement, catcher, Southern California

4) Washington Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman, third baseman, Virginia

5) Milwaukee Brewers, Ryan Braun, third baseman, Miami

6) Toronto Blue Jays, Ricardo Romero, pitcher, Cal State Fullerton

7) Colorado Rockies, Troy Tulowitski, shortstop, Long Beach State

8) Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Wade Townsend, pitcher, Rice

9) New York Mets, Michael Pelfrey, pitcher, Wichita State

10) Detroit Tigers, Cameron Maybin, centerfielder, TC Roberson High School (North Carolina)