Baseball Draft Over

I knew if he was going to get drafted Collins Cuthrell would have to wait until the third day or Tuesday when rounds 11-40 were completed.  The draft is over and Cuthrell never heard his name.  The 2015 season saw Collins play at UNC Pembroke while in graduate school.  His fourth year of college baseball turned out to be in the eyes of those who call themselves experts picked Cuthrell to be a finalist for the D2 player if the year.  That puts him as in the top eight players in all of D 2 ball.

I have to assume Collins expressed to scouts no desire to want to play baseball beyond college.  I find it hard to believe that a player  who hit 443 batting average with 25 home runs and 74 RBI would not draw any attention from scouts.



Benton Moss will spend this summer playing for the Tampa Bay Rays team in the New York Penn League.  That is the same league that Brian Goodwin a teammate of Moss at Rocky Mount played in but he played for the Vermont team for the Nationals.  Xavier Macklin of Nash Central was a teammate of Brian  Goodwin while in Vermont but he had been drafted by the A's.



Moss will play for Hudson Valley Renegades of the village of Fishkill New York.  That sounds like a town that ought to be in Alaska but it is 70 miles north of New York City and 35 miles south of Albany.  The New York Penn League season opens June 15th and runs until September 7th



There is of course no legion baseball going on in Rocky Mount this summer but a very interesting name was drafted.  Jack Conley who played for the Raleigh legion  team last year.  Those who remember Raleigh had no home field last season and played many games at Legion Field in Rocky Mount.  Conley was the Catcher and played at Leesville Road High.  He was drafted in the 30th round. He chose Legion over travel ball.


The highest draft pick from this area was Isaiah White who played at Greenfield Academy in Wilson.  White a center fielder was picked in the third round.  He played for a private school.  Just goes to show playing Legion over Showcase or going to Private school over public if you can play the scouts will find you.