D-backs select Vanderbilt SS Dansby Swanson with No. 1 pick in MLB draft

ByABC News
June 8, 2015, 7:20 PM

— -- The Arizona Diamondbacks have selected Vanderbilt shortstop Dansby Swanson with the No. 1 pick in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.

Swanson, a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, is the first college shortstop to go selected first overall since Brown University's Bill Almon in 1974.

With the second overall pick, the Houston Astros selected another shortstop, LSU's Alex Bregman.