MLB Draft 2015: Grading Results for Each Baseball Franchise

Draft grades for the MLB draft are perhaps trickier than in any other sport. Most of these players, after all, will spend years in a team's farm system, fine-tuning their games before they are ready to hit the major leagues. 

Baseball prospects, especially those coming straight from high school, feel more like unmolded clay than you see in other sports, so any draft grade is taking into account value at the pick and a player's perceived upside and little else. 

But hey, this is sports, and we need to quantify everything so we can compare, contrast and argue with out buddies who root for a different team. So let's take a stab at grading this year's MLB draft.

Team	Overall Grade
Arizona Diamondbacks	B+
Houston Astros	A
Colorado Rockies	A
Texas Rangers	A
Minnesota Twins	B
Boston Red Sox	B+
Chicago White Sox	B-
Chicago Cubs	B
Philadelphia Phillies	C+
Cincinnati Reds	B-
Miami Marlins	C
Tampa Bay Rays	B-
Atlanta Braves	B
Milwaukee Brewers	B
New York Yankees	B
Cleveland Indians	B+
Seattle Mariners	B-
San Francisco Giants	B
Pittsburgh Pirates	B-
Oakland Athletics	B
Kansas City Royals	B-
Detroit Tigers	B-
St. Louis Cardinals	B
Baltimore Orioles	B+
Los Angeles Dodgers	A-
Washington Nationals	B
Los Angeles Angels	B-
San Diego Padres	B-
New York Mets	B+
Toronto Blue Jays	B

No team had a better draft than the Houston Astros, and it was all because they couldn't sign Brady Aiken last season. In the end, they'll likely be more than OK with failing to sign the pitcher a year ago.

Failing to sign Aiken not only resulted in them having the No. 2 pick as compensation this year, they also came into the draft with a $17.3 million bonus pool to sign their top selections. 

At No. 2, the team selected shortstop and college star Alex Bregman. At No. 5, they nabbed Kyle Tucker, the younger brother of Astros player Preston Tucker. And because they had so much additional money to sign players, they were able to snag Daz Cameron at No. 37, a top-10 talent who likely dropped because due to a rumored price tag of $5 million, per Evan Drellich of the Houston Chronicle.

If the Astros are able to sign both Bregman and Cameron, they'll essentially have ended up with two quality position players for the price of Aiken. That's not a bad trade. 

For Cameron, dropping in the draft was certainly a disappointment, but he ended up in a great situation for him, as his father and former MLB player, Mike Cameron, told Drellich:

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As it turned out, (it worked out) even better. He's going to get pretty much whatever he wanted to get in the first place if he would have been (pick number) two, three, four, five, six anyway. This is only the beginning, and this is a good situation. (Astros general manager Jeff) Luhnow got a chance to see him twice with his own eyes and talk to him.

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The Astros will love to hear that. And for good measure, they added Riley Ferrell at pick No. 79, another steal. No team crushed the beginning of the draft as hard as the Astros. 

A few teams came close, however. The Texas Rangers had a pretty obvious need coming into the draft, as pitching was a top priority. And boy, did they address it. 

With the No. 4 pick, they selected Dillon Tate, the top college pitcher in this class. Then they really impressed on Day 2, selecting college pitchers Michael Matuella (who was in the running to be the top overall pick before needing Tommy John surgery this past season), Jake Lemoine and Tyler Ferguson.

In total, the Rangers used six of their top 10 picks on pitchers. Clearly, the Rangers knew they needed to address the position and, boy, did they do it.

The Los Angeles Dodgers went after the pitchers as well, nabbing college pitchers Walker Buehler at No. 24 and Kyle Funkhouser at No. 35, two great values. That alone was a great haul and has to have the Dodgers brass feeling pretty great about their draft.

Meanwhile, from a value perspective, the Colorado Rockies nailed this draft. Getting Brendan "Don't Call Me Liverpool's Manager" Rodgers at No. 3 was a great get, as he's probably the draft's most talented player but fell to three because so many teams were worried about spending too much of their bonus pool money on top picks. 

They continued to get excellent values throughout, grabbing talented high school pitcher Mike Nikorak at No. 27, Phil Nevin's son, Tyler (one of the better pure prep hitters in this class), at No. 38 and with pick No. 44, snagged Peter Lambert.

Value, value, value. All throughout the draft, the Rockies found primo value. A great draft for the team.