# List of Seattle Mariners first-round draft picks

The Seattle Mariners are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Seattle, Washington. They play in the American League West division. Since the franchise entered the league as an expansion team in 1977, they have selected 47 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, with the team possessing the worst record receiving the first pick. In addition, teams that lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks. The First-Year Player Draft is unrelated to the 1976 expansion draft through which the Mariners filled their roster.
Of the 47 players selected in the first round by the Mariners, 18 have been pitchers, the most of any position; of whom 13 were right-handed and five left-handed. They have also drafted nine outfielders, eight shortstops, seven catchers, three first basemen and two third baseman. Seattle has never drafted a second baseman in the first round. The Mariners have drafted 22 players out of high school, and 24 out of college. All of the college selections came from four-year institutions; the team has never selected a junior college player in the first round. The Mariners have drafted 11 players from high schools or colleges in California, four players from Florida, and a single player from their home state of Washington. One of the Mariners' 2007 picks—Canadian Phillippe Aumont—is the only selection from outside the United States.
One Mariners first-round selection is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted in 2016, having received an all-time record of 99.3% of the possible votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Two of the Mariners' first-round selections, Alex Rodriguez and Griffey, are members of the 500 home run club. Rodriguez won a World Series title with the New York Yankees, four Hank Aaron Awards, three American League MVP awards, and was named to 13 All-Star teams. The Mariners have held the first overall pick four times, most recently in 1993. The Mariners have made eight selections in the supplemental round of the draft and 11 compensatory picks over their history. These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the previous off-season, or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year. The Mariners have failed to sign two of their picks, Scott Burrell in 1989 and John Mayberry, Jr. in 2002. For failing to sign these picks, the team received the 38th pick in the 1990 draft and the 37th pick in the 2003 draft, respectively.

## Key

| Year | Each year links to an article about that year's Major League Baseball Draft. |
| Position | Indicates the secondary/collegiate position at which the player was drafted, rather than the professional position the player may have gone on to play |
| Pick | Indicates the number of the pick within the first round |
| * | Player did not sign with the Mariners |
| § | Indicates a supplemental pick |
| † | Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 500 | Indicates a member of the 500 home run club |

## Picks

| Year | Name | Position | School (location) | Pick |
| 1977 | Dave Henderson | Outfielder | Dos Palos High School (Dos Palos, California) | 26 |
| 1978 | Tito Nanni | Outfielder | Chestnut Hill Academy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | 6 |
| 1979 | Al Chambers | Outfielder | John Harris High School (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) | 1 |
| 1980 | Darnell Coles | Shortstop | Eisenhower High School (Rialto, California) | 6 |
| 1981 | Mike Moore | Right-handed pitcher | Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, Oklahoma) | 1 |
| 1982 | Spike Owen | Shortstop | University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) | 13 |
| 1983 | Darrel Akerfelds | Right-handed pitcher | Mesa State College (Grand Junction, Colorado) | 7 |
| 1983 | Terry Bell | Catcher | Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia) | 17§ |
| 1984 | Bill Swift | Right-handed pitcher | University of Maine (Orono, Maine) | 2 |
| 1985 | Mike Campbell | Right-handed pitcher | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawaii) | 7 |
| 1985 | Bill McGuire | Catcher | University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Lincoln, Nebraska) | 27§ |
| 1986 | Patrick Lennon | Shortstop | Whiteville High School (Whiteville, North Carolina) | 8 |
| 1987 | Ken Griffey Jr.$^†$500 | Outfielder | Moeller High School (Cincinnati, Ohio) | 1 |
| 1988 | Tino Martinez | First baseman | University of Tampa (Tampa, Florida) | 14 |
| 1989 | Roger Salkeld | Right-handed pitcher | Saugus High School (Santa Clarita, California) | 3 |
| 1989 | Scott Burrell* | Right-handed pitcher | Hamden High School (Hamden, Connecticut) | 26§ |
| 1990 | Marc Newfield | First baseman | Marina High School (Huntington Beach, California) | 6 |
| 1990 | Anthony Manahan | Shortstop | Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) | 38§ |
| 1991 | Shawn Estes | Left-handed pitcher | Douglas High School (Gardnerville, Nevada) | 11 |
| 1992 | Ron Villone | Left-handed pitcher | University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts) | 14 |
| 1993 | Alex Rodriguez 500 | Shortstop | Westminster Christian High School (Miami, Florida) | 1 |
| 1994 | Jason Varitek | Catcher | Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) | 14 |
| 1995 | José Cruz Jr. | Outfielder | Rice University (Houston, Texas) | 3 |
| 1996 | Gil Meche | Right-handed pitcher | Acadiana High School (Lafayette, Louisiana) | 22 |
| 1997 | Ryan Anderson | Left-handed pitcher | Divine Child High School (Dearborn, Michigan) | 19 |
| 1998 | Matt Thornton | Left-handed pitcher | Grand Valley State University (Allendale, Michigan) | 22 |
| 1999 | Ryan Christianson | Catcher | Arlington High School (Riverside, California) | 11 |
| 1999 | Jeff Heaverlo | Right-handed pitcher | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) | 33§ |
| 2000 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 2001 | Michael Garciaparra | Shortstop | Don Bosco High School (La Habra Heights, California) | 36§ |
| 2002 | John Mayberry Jr.* | Outfielder | Rockhurst High School (Kansas City, Missouri) | 28 |
| 2003 | Adam Jones | Shortstop | Samuel F. B. Morse High School (San Diego, California) | 37§ |
| 2004 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 2005 | Jeff Clement | Catcher | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) | 3 |
| 2006 | Brandon Morrow | Right-handed pitcher | University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California) | 5 |
| 2007 | Phillippe Aumont | Right-handed pitcher | École secondaire du Versant (Gatineau, Quebec) | 11 |
| 2007 | Matt Mangini | Third baseman | Oklahoma State University–Stillwater (Stillwater, Oklahoma) | 52§ |
| 2008 | Josh Fields | Right-handed pitcher | University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia) | 20 |
| 2009 | Dustin Ackley | Outfielder | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) | 2 |
| 2009 | Nick Franklin | Shortstop | Lake Brantley High School (Altamonte Springs, Florida) | 27 |
| 2009 | Steven Baron | Catcher | John A. Ferguson High School (Miami, Florida) | 33§ |
| 2010 | Taijuan Walker | Right-handed pitcher | Yucaipa High School (Yucaipa, California) | 43§ |
| 2011 | Danny Hultzen | Left-handed pitcher | University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia) | 2 |
| 2012 | Mike Zunino | Catcher | University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida) | 3 |
| 2013 | D. J. Peterson | Third baseman | University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) | 12 |
| 2014 | Alex Jackson | Outfielder | Rancho Bernardo High School (San Diego County, California) | 6 |
| 2015 | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick | no first-round pick |
| 2016 | Kyle Lewis | Outfielder | Mercer University (Macon, Georgia) | 11 |
| 2017 | Evan White | First baseman | University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky) | 17 |
| 2018 | Logan Gilbert | Right-handed pitcher | Stetson University (DeLand, Florida) | 14 |
| 2019 | George Kirby | Right-handed pitcher | Elon University (Elon, North Carolina) | 20 |
| 2020 | Emerson Hancock | Right-handed pitcher | University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia) | 6 |
| 2021 | Harry Ford | Catcher | North Cobb High School (Kennesaw, Georgia) | 12 |
| 2022 | Cole Young | Shortstop | North Allegheny High School (Wexford, Pennsylvania) | 21 |
| 2023 | Colt Emerson | Shortstop | John Glenn High School (New Concord, Ohio) | 22 |
| 2023 | Jonny Farmelo | Outfielder | Westfield High School (Chantilly, Virginia) | 29§ |
| 2023 | Tai Peete | Shortstop | Trinity Christian School (Sharpsburg, Georgia) | 30§ |
| 2024 | Jurrangelo Cijntje | Switch-handed pitcher | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) | 15 |