The 2010 Major League Baseball First Year Entry Draft is scheduled for June 7th 2010 at 7:00pm EST in Secaucas, New Jersey.

Over the last week I have made the predictions that the Washington Nationals will take catcher Bryce Harper with the first overall selection, the Pittsburgh Pirates will take shortstop Manny Machado with the second overall selection, the Baltimore Orioles will take pitcher Drew Pomeranz with the third overall selection and the Kansas City Royals will take catcher Yasmani Grandal with the fourth overall selection.

Today I round out my top five with the Cleveland Indians and the fifth overall selection.

With the fifth overall selection I predict the Indians will take University of Texas-Arlington outfielder Michael Choice.

Choice, easily the best outfielder available in the 2010 MLB Entry Draft has been tabbed as going as low as number eleven in the first round and as high as where I have him at the number five position.

Choice, a 6’0, 215lbs Arlington, Texas native attended Mansfield Timberview High School and was a first team All-District 15-4A pick as a sophomore catcher. He hit .443 as a junior with 35 hits, nine stolen bases and two homers en route to earning first team All-District 15-4A honors as a junior second baseman as well as earning a District 4-5A Most Valuable Player award as a senior hitting .506 with 42 hits, 17 stolen bases and six home runs. Choice was also a member of the A-B Honor Roll.

The baseball ability and mental intelligence of Choice earned him a ticket to his local University of Texas-Arlington where in his freshman year he led the Mavericks in all three triple-crown categories batting .376 with seven home runs and 51 RBI.

He won a plethora of awards being named the Southland Conference Freshman of the Year, second team All-SLC, rivals.com Freshman All-American, first-team National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Freshman All-American, second team Baseball America Freshman All-American, Louisville Slugger/Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-American, second team PING! Freshman All-American and became only the second freshman in UT Arlington history to earn Freshman All-American honors.

Choice recorded the highest freshman batting average in UT Arlington history at .376 while playing in 50 games making all 50 starts in centre field. His .376 average led all SLC freshmen in batting average, while also ranking third in the conference and 125th in the NCAA. He also led the team with 110 total bases, recorded a .977 fielding percentage with just three errors in 132 chances and batted .382 against left-handed pitching and .373 against right-handed pitchers. Finally, he recorded a .425 batting average with runners on-base and a .444 average with the bases loaded while compiling a .397 average with runners in scoring position and a .410 average while batting with two outs.

With an outstanding freshman year like that Choice was already on the radar of baseball scouts from around the country as he continued his impressive showing at UT Arlington.

In his sophomore year Choice was the only UT Arlington player to start all 56 games at the same position in centre field and bat in the same number three spot in the batting order.

He finished fifth overall in the Southland Conference’s top ten statistical categories, including second in on-base percentage at .492, fourth in batting average at a .413 clip, fifth in runs with 64, fifth in hits with 93 and eighth in slugging percentage at .644. He became the sixth UT Arlington player in program history to hit for the cycle going 4-for-4 with three runs and five RBI against Northwood on May 21st of 2009. He was also a member of the Capital One/Southland Conference 2009 Commissioner’s Spring Academic Honor Roll and was named to the UT Arlington Spring 2009 Athletic Director’s Academic Honor Roll.

Choice would continue his impressive showing at UT Arlington in his junior year becoming the face of the baseball side of the school being named to UT Arlington’s Baseball 2000′s All-Decade Team and to USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award Watch List.

He was named Baseball America’s #5 on their list of “2010 MLB Draft Top Outfielders” and Baseball America projected he would become a First-Round MLB Draft pick while also naming Choice #20 on the “Top 100 College MLB Draft Prospects” list and #17 on the “Top 50 College Juniors” list.

Choice was also named to Baseball America’s Preseason All-Conference team and Baseball America’s Preseason Conference Player of the Year.

Yahoo! Sports deemed Choice a first team preseason All-Conference player and named him the preseason’s best hitter in the conference.

Choice is an athletically gifted individual with the all around intelligence to succeed in more than just baseball. His make-up is fantastic, while his baseball ability is unmatched as far as outfielders in the 2010 draft are concerned.

Choice has been scouted heavily and linked to the Indians, but somehow certain mock drafts do not see them going that way.

The correct Choice, if you catch my drift, would be for the Indians to grab the best outfielder in the draft while he is still available at number five, as a gifted player with the all around make-up and intelligence of a Michael Choice should not even be considered outside of the top five in my opinion.

The Indians will have a tough decision to make at the number five pick, but if Michael Choice is available I would nab him up quickly if I was them.

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