MLB Draft Day One Is Over

The first three rounds of the major league draft is over and no local names were called.

For all of us who pull for for either Northern Nash or Rocky Mount we all wanted to hear their names called.

I have heard all spring that the Joyner family were sending vibes to scouts that they wanted to send Tyler to college and were not that interested in signing and playing minor league baseball at this time. Tyler has committed to the Nash County American Legion team this summer before Billy Godwin gets him in the fall at ECU.

I think even the Goodwin family had told scouts that Brian would have to be a high, high pick in order to sway him from Mike Fox and Chapel Hill.

When Charles Alston sent out the e-mail that Brian had decided to play select baseball this summer in Ohio I kind of thought that the Goodwin's after hearing what scouts were telling them where they thought Brian might go in the draft that they put out the word that they would spend the next three years in Chapel Hill.

I suspect we will hear their names called before the week is over since there are 50 rounds of players picked. 1600 players will get drafted by end of the day Thursday.

Major league teams don't have many quality picks and when family's send out messages that we are not interested most teams look in the direction of those that are. By the time the 10th round rolls around teams will start taking shots in the dark just to see if they can lure players to pro ball.

Round four starts at Noon on Wednesday.

The Tar Heels of North Carolina had three player drafted. As expected Dustin Ackley went as the second player taken to Seattle and D H Conley's Alex White was the fifteenth player taken. Carolina was the only school with two players taken in the first round. Kyle Seager was taken in the third round. As it turned out they were the only college players taken from any North Carolina College.

There was one thing very obvious in the draft. If you were six three and could throw ninty miles and hour or faster you got drafted. The ninty fifth pick in the draft was the first pitcher less than six feet three. Almost half of the draft were pitchers.