page_title: List of Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft picks
section_title: Picks
hierarchical_section_title: List of Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft picks / Picks
caption_attribution_description: English: Chris Carpenter completes a pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals on October 1, 2009 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. Carpenter started the game, won by the Cardinals, 13-0, and allowed no runs and three hits in five innings to improve his record to 17-4. He also hit his first career home run, a second inning grand slam, and a double to drive in six runs.
context_page_description: The Toronto Blue Jays are a Major League Baseball franchise based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They play in the American League East division. Since the Blue Jays' entrance into the league in 1977, the Blue Jays have selected 71 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 draft is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur 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 which 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 in which the Blue Jays initially filled their roster.
  Of the 71 players picked in the first round by Toronto, 34 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 26 of them were right-handed, while eight were left-handed. 14 shortstops, 12 outfielders, four catchers and third basemen, and three first basemen have also been selected.
caption: Chris Carpenter (1993), one of four players drafted in the first round of the 1993 draft, won a Cy Young Award with the St. Louis Cardinals.[14]
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