page_title: List of Texas Rangers first-round draft picks
section_title: Picks
hierarchical_section_title: List of Texas Rangers first-round draft picks / Picks
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional baseball player David Clyde
context_page_description: The Texas Rangers are a Major League Baseball franchise based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. They play in the American League West division. Before 1972, they were known as the Washington Senators and based in Washington, D.C. Since the institution of MLB's Rule 4 Draft, the Rangers franchise has selected 68 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 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 which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks.
  Of the 71 players picked in the first round by Washington or Texas, 37 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 27 of these were right-handed, while 10 were left-handed. Twelve outfielders, nine third basemen, six shortstops, four catchers, two first basemen, and one second baseman were also taken.
caption: David Clyde was the number one overall draft pick in 1973.
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