Goodwin expected to go in MLB Draft Tuesday
June 11, 2009 Rocky Mount High School
From staff reports
NEW YORK - If mock drafts mean anything, Rocky Mount senior center fielder Brian Goodwin will be picked sometime Tuesday evening during the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.
Goodwin, the 2009 N.C. Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year, is expected to be a late first-round or early supplemental round pick by one of MLB's 32 teams. He will be the first Rocky Mount player to be selected in the Draft since center fielder Maurice Cobb was taken by the then-Montreal Expos in the 2002 Draft.
Pitcher Jeremy Ward (Class of '96) was taken in the second round of the 1999 Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks - making him the highest drafted Gryphon ever. Ward played his college baseball at Wake Forest and Long Beach State.
MLB.com will offer live coverage and analysis of the entire First-Year Player Draft. MLB Network will broadcast the first round beginning at 6 p.m. ET June 9 from its Studio 42 in Secaucus, N.J., and those 32 selections also will be simulcast live on MLB.com.
Beginning with the 33rd pick, up-to-the-minute on-air coverage from the remaining rounds will shift exclusively to MLB.com/Live, where host Vinny Micucci will be joined by MLB.com.
At the end of the night, the Draft will continue with the fourth through 30th rounds, via conference call from MLB Headquarters in New York, at noon on Wednesday, June 10. Rounds 31-50 will be on Thursday, June 11, starting at 11:30 a.m.
Someone will have to pass the word to the 6-1, 185-pound Goodwin should he get picked, however. He is playing summer baseball with the Midland Redskins in Amelia, Oh. outside of Cincinnati. He will be playing in a game Tuesday night while the Draft is being conducted. |
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