NBC’s coverage of the MLB Draft on Saturday will mark “baseball’s first on broadcast TV,” with the net carrying MLB Network’s production through the 10th pick before coverage moves to MLB Network and later MLB.com, according to Jeff Agrest of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES. NBC will air the event beginning at 1pm ET with a pre-draft show, with MLB Network airing picks 11 to 40 and MLB.com carrying the rest of the draft. MLB Network “will have cameras” with UCLA SS Roch Cholowsky and Fort Worth (Texas) Christian High School SS Grady Emerson to “get either’s instant reaction” when MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announces the No. 1 overall pick, owned by the White Sox. The net is “pretty confident” the pick will be either Cholowsky or Emerson. MLB Network has “more than 200″ prospects accounted for with “highlight packages and up to 800 with graphics.” Each analyst is “assigned players to know inside and out to be able to discuss them whenever they’re called.” But the network has “more than draft coverage to produce in Philadelphia.” It “essentially will serve as a production house” for NBC’s All-Star Futures Game on Sunday, Netflix’s Home Run Derby on Monday and the All-Star Game world feed Tuesday, “in addition to digital programming” (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 7/9).
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