MLB Draft tonight and Baltimore selected Gausman 4th overall. Congrats! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/06/04/2012.mlb.draft.tracker.perkin/index.html
Mainieri said he thinks two of his seniors — shortstop Aaron Nola and third baseman Tyler Hanover — “will get a chance professionally. Both were drafted last year — Nola in the 31st round by the Blue Jays and Hanover in the 40th round by the Yankees. Mainieri expects several juniors — outfielder Raph Rhymes (picked in the 40th round by the Pirates last season), first baseman/outfielder Mason Katz and pitchers Nick Goody, Joey Bourgeois and Brent Bonvillain — to get selected some time during the week. “It’s just a question of whether they’ll be drafted good enough to give up their senior year,” Mainieri said. LSU also has to wait to see if any recruits choose to give up their college careers entirely to turn pro. High-school signees Mainieri and his staff will keep an eye on this week include Las Vegas Bishop Gorman right-hander/third baseman Joey Gallo, Puerto Rico Baseball Academy second baseman Jesmuel Valentin, Albuquerque (N.M.) Academy second baseman Alex Bregman, Chabot (Calif.) Junior College right-hander Will LaMarche, Miami Gulliver Prep catcher Chris Chinea and Rummel right-hander Mitch Sewald. Baseball America lists Gallo as the No. 33 prospect in the draft and projects him to go to the Tampa Bay Rays with the 25th pick. In the Perfect Game All-American Classic last summer, Gallo blasted a 442-foot home run at PETCO Park in San Diego, helping him earn the game’s MVP award. “I think Joey really wants to go to LSU, but he may not be able to,” Mainieri said. “He might just get offered so much money he can’t turn it down.” The son of former big-leaguer Jose Valentin, Jesmuel Valentin is listed by Baseball America as the draft’s No. 71 prospect. Bregman led the USA Baseball 18U National team to a gold medal in the fall, but suffered a broken middle finger on his right hand while fielding grounders before the fifth game of his high school season. Nonetheless, Baseball America ranks him the No. 121 prospect in the draft.
the top 10 high school kids drafted, SEC schools had 5 of them, Miami had 3 of them, Auburn and UCLA had 2 each 1 -- #1 overall Carlos Correa (Puerto Rico) -- MIAMI 2 -- #2 overall Byron Buxton (Ga.) -- GEORGIA 3 -- #6 overall Albert Almora (Fla.) -- MIAMI 4 -- #7 overall Max Fried (Calif.) -- UCLA 5 -- #10 overall David Dahl (Ala.) -- AUBURN 6 -- #11 overall Addison Russell (Fla.) -- AUBURN 7 -- #12 overall Gavin Cecchini (La.) -- OLE MISS 8 -- #13 overall Courtney Hawkins (Tex.) -- TEXAS 9 -- #14 overall Nick Travieso (Fla.) -- MIAMI 10 -- #16 overall Lucas Giolito (Calif.) -- UCLA
Miss State's Chris Stratton, the SEC Pitcher of the Year, is the 3rd SEC player taken at #20 overall. the NCAA pitchers that went ahead of him were Gausman, U of San Francisco RHP Kyle Zimmer, Stanford RHP Mark Appel, Oklahoma State LHP Andrew Heaney, and Texas A&M RHP Michael Wacha
Congrats! Anyone know the likelihood of him staying or going? Of course, his stock can't get much higher than it is now...
Exactly. That's 'set for life' money and he's not going to risk injury or a poor season that will cost him financially.
