Benton Moss Academic All-American

The history of University of North Carolina  baseball they have never had a first team Academic  All-American until now.  Thursday Rocky Mount High Grad and  Enfield North Carolina native Benton Moss was named to the Capital One first team All-American All Academic Team.  As much bad press as North Carolina has received recently about their academics this is a shot in the arm for the Tar Heel nation.

This is not the first time Benton has been on the All American team but it is the first team.  Moss with a diploma in hand and several conversations with major league teams under his belt he only has until Monday night to wait and see where his future may lie.  Monday night starting at 5pm is the 2015 MLB  FirstYear Draft.  Those in the know think he will be drafted between rounds four through ten.

Monday will only be the first two rounds plus the compensation picks.  1pm Tuesday starts rounds three through ten and if the experts are right everyone will hear Benton's name Tuesday afternoon.  Should his name get called Monday night a rather nice bonus check will be part of the deal but the further from round two you get the bonus checks are reserved for the top picks.

Picked in the 15th round last year but deciding to return to Carolina for his senior season most of Moss' negotiating power is gone because MLB teams know you have no further options now that your college eligibility is gone.  So most of the bonus money goes to players right out of high school or those top draft picks who are college juniors  who could go back to college like Moss did last year. If he goes say in the fifth round he improved his draft status by ten rounds by going back to Carolina and having a 7-1 season.  Good Luck Benton we'll be watching!!!!!!

N C State pitcher Carlos Rodon unless he gets injured will probably never see the minors again.  Rodon has appeared in eight games since his call up with five starts now in his history is 1-0 with an ERA of 3.12.  Thursday Rodon went six innings and struck out  10 which is right now his career high but his last three starts has given up only one run per game.  He has no wins in those three outings because his teammates have only scored three runs in his outings.  When the White Sox start scoring runs Rodon won lost record will soar.

The injury suffered by Kyree Irvin  in Thursday night's NBA finals in game one was a broken knee cap.  He is out of the series and with it so goes Cleveland's chances of winning  the title.  LaBron is great but I don't think he can win this series alone.