DRAFT TAKES 22 MORE.Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer Another 22 local baseball players received phone calls Tuesday from Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. teams informing them they had been drafted. Rounds 21 through 50 were completed and many wondered what took so long. Once the calls came, starting with College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. outfielder Larry Brown Larry Brown may refer to:
San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. High (22nd round, No. 656) most were relieved. But several players thought they were going to be taken much higher. Highland's John Santor had heard scouts tell him he would be taken in the first 15 rounds. The St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. finally selected him in the 35th round, No. 1,043 overall. Santor hit 15 home runs and had 54 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in last year. This season, he batted .479 with 11 homers and 43 RBI. ``Like they said, it's a strange draft,'' Santor's father, Stan, said. ``He was very uptight. He's very (upset). John's an old-school baseball player. He wants to go. He wants to take the chance.'' Not as much as Granada Hills' John Voita and USC's Seth Davidson. Voita moved from Calabasas to El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Davidson, shortstop and captain of USC's College World Series-bound team, is batting .305 with four homers and 31 RBI and a school record-tying 26 stolen bases. He also has a .957 fielding percentage In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player handles a batted or thrown ball properly. . Yet he was available until the 46th round, when Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). selected him with the 1,350th pick. Davidson's teammate Ronald Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , a pitcher who's 6-1 with a 3.17 ERA and four saves, was chosen 870th in the 29th round by Oakland. A source close to the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. baseball program said Davidson is considering returning to school for his senior year. Then there is El Camino Real shortstop Conor Jackson, a potential City Player of the Year. He was batting .447 with seven homers and 31 RBI before the City playoffs started. He has made it clear he wants to attend Cal, so his draft stock plummeted to the 31st round, where Cleveland took him with the 936th pick. Four picks later, Littlerock shortstop Delwyn Young went to Atlanta. Not everybody was unhappy. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX broke USC's two-year record by having 12 players drafted and Grant infielder Felipe Tetelboin was just happy to get picked, even if it was with pick No. 1,381 (St. Louis in the 47th round). LOCALS DRAFTED Local baseball players who were selected Tuesday, the second day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft: ROUND OVERALL PLAYER, SCHOOL........................TAKEN BY 22......656...Larry Brown, College of the Canyons...Seattle 23......689...Josh Higgins, The Master's............Pittsburgh 23......694...Robert Evans, Pepperdine..............Texas 25......732...Joey Hamer, Newbury Park..............Minnesota 25......739...Jack Cassel, Pierce...................San Diego 25......743...Ryan Hamill, UCLA.....................St. Louis 29......870...Ronald Flores, USC....................Oakland 31......936...Conor Jackson, El Camino Real.........Cleveland 31......940...Delwyn Young, Littlerock..............Atlanta 32......968...Chris Dickerson, Notre Dame...........N.Y. (AL) 33......984...Kurt Birkins, Pierce..................Baltimore 34....1,013...Tyler Johnson, Moorpark JC............St. Louis 35....1,043...John Santor, Highland.................St. Louis 37....1,116...Damon Katz, Pepperdine................Cleveland 40....1,209...Adam Hilzendenger, Palmdale...........Atlanta 41....1,222...Brian Fatur, Moorpark JC..............St. Louis 45....1,338...John Voita, Granada Hills.............Oakland 46....1,348...Brian Baron, UCLA (Hart)..............Minnesota 46....1,350...Seth Davidson, USC....................Kansas City 47....1,380...Cory Parrott, Burroughs...............Chicago (AL) 47....1,381...Felipe Tetelboin, Grant...............St. Louis 50....1,441...Freddie Mitchell, UCLA................Chicago (AL) CAPTION(S): box Box: LOCALS DRAFTED (see text) |
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