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There have been 58 first overall draft picks in Major League Baseball (MLB) since Rick Monday (pictured) was selected by the Kansas City Athletics in 1965. The first-year player draft, also known as the Rule 4 Draft, is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is solely determined by the previous season's standings; the team that possesses the worst record receives the first pick. No first overall pick was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame until 2016, when Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted with a record 99.3 percent of votes cast. Griffey has since been joined by two other top picks, with Chipper Jones, inducted in 2018; and Harold Baines, elected in December 2018 and inducted in July 2019. Jackson Holliday is the most recent first overall pick; he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 2022. (Full list...)