Basically Everyone Related To An MLB Player Was Drafted

Barry PetcheskyBarry Petchesky|published: Mon 10th June, 10:34 2013

We've gone over this before, but there's no sport that can match baseball for pure draft nepotism.

Some of them are legit prospects: Colin Moran, J.P Crawford, and Hunter Harvey went in the first round. But most won't amount to anything, despite their superior baseball genetics. It's still understandable: the PR of taking a legend's son, or even a great-grandnephew more than outweighs the value available the 35th round. Now that the 2013 draft is in the books, let's run down the bloodlines.

Sons and grandsons:

Craig Biggio's son

Roger Clemens's son

Andy Pettitte's son

Torii Hunter's son

Bucky Dent's son

Clay Bellinger's son

Edwin Diaz's son

Ned Eades's son

Mike Benjamin's son

Bryan Harvey's son

Paul Quantrill's son

Calvin Schiraldi's son

Kirt Manwaring's son

Jamie Moyer's son

Scott Nielsen's son

Lee Mazzilli's son

Tim Wallach's son

Walt Weiss's son

John Farrell's son

Tim Unroe's son

Ed Williams's son

Frank Wren's son

Mark Leiter's son (and Al Leiter's nephew)

Vance Law's son (and Vern Law's grandson)

Lee May's grandson

Carl Yastrzemski's grandson


Brothers:

Jason Heyward's brother

Justin Verlander's brother

Rex Brothers's brother

Kyle Seager's brother

A.J. Griffin's brother

Nolan Arenado's brother

Other:

Carl Crawford's cousin

Brad Lidge's cousin

B.J. Surhoff's nephew

Paul O'Neill's nephew

Gary Sheffield's nephew

Robin Yount's nephew

Chris Speier's nephew

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson's great-grandnephew

Undrafted:

Manny Ramirez's son

Kurt Bevacqua's son

Rafael Palmeiro's son

Pat Borders's son

Jay Buhner's son

John Cangelosi's son

John Franco's son

Bob Geren's son

Frank Wren's other son

Harmon Killebrew's grandson

Willie Stargell's grandson

Alex Rodriguez's nephew

Dan Plesac's nephew

Ruben Amaro's nephew

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