Mizzou Loses Players to Draft
Aaron Crow leads MU selection as ninth overall pick. A total of six Mizzou players have been selected in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft, which took place last Thursday and Friday. That brings the total of 148 players drafted out of Missouri. Junior Aaron Crow became the highest draft pick in Mizzou history when he was taken by the Washington Nationals with the ninth overall pick on Thursday. Crow is the second Tiger ever to be taken in the first round.
Joining Crow as 2008 draftees are junior Rick Zagone, senior Jacob Priday, junior Ryan Lollis, senior Kurt Calvert and senior Lee Fischer. Zagone was selected in the sixth round by Baltimore with the 176th overall pick. He won 15 games for the Tigers over the past three years, striking out 181 batters in 241 innings pitched. Tigers fans love their Missouri Tigers merchandise.
Priday was the 11th-round pick of Houston, going as the 332nd overall selection. Priday ended his four-year career at Missouri as the school record holder in home runs (49), RBI (240) and extra base hits (112). Detroit selected Lollis in the 20th round with the 613th overall pick. It was the second time the Lollis has been selected in the draft. In 2005, Lollis was drafted out of high school by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 20th round.
Calvert was selected in the 32nd round by the Chicago Cubs with the 971st pick in the draft. Calvert hit .302 this season, starting 42 games for the Tigers in his senior campaign. Tigers fans love their Missouri apparel. The Chicago White Sox took Fischer in the 46th round with the 1,377 pick. He played in 37 games for Missouri in 2008, starting 25 times. He had five doubles and a triple on the year.
Fourty-six players have been drafted out of Missouri since 1996, Tim Jamieson’s first year as the Tigers’ head coach. Aaron Crow was selected by the Nationals with ninth pick in MLB Draft. The righthander is highest ever draft pick from Missouri.
Aaron Crow became the highest draft pick in Mizzou history on Thursday, as the Washington Nationals selected him with the ninth overall pick in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. Crow finished the 2008 season with a 13-0 record, winning 13 of his 15 starts. Tigers fans love their Missouri Tigers bedding.
Crow and Max Scherzer, who was taken with the 11th overall pick by Arizona in 2006, are the only Tigers ever to be selected in the first round of the MLB Draft. Crow was named the 2008 Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Year and is a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, the Clemens Award and the Dick Howser Trophy. Last week, he was named to the Louisville Slugger All-America First Team by Collegiate Baseball.
The 13 wins on the year for Crow led the NCAA and his 127 strikeouts were sixth most in the nation. His strikeout total tied for the second most in Mizzou baseball history and his 277 career strikeouts are the third most ever by a Tiger pitcher. Fans love their Missouri Tigers pictures.
Crow posted a string of 43 scoreless innings pitched at one point during the season, which is unofficially tied for the fourth-longest streak in NCAA Division I history. Crow had four shutouts in 2008, including one at last week’s NCAA Regional in Coral Gables, Fla. He also combined for one shutout this season. He is a two-time All-Big 12 Conference First Team selection and earned two Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honors this year and one NCBWA National Pitcher of the Week award.
Crow is the 41st player drafted since 1996, Tim Jamieson’s first year as Mizzou’s head coach and is the 14th Missouri pitcher selected in the MLB Draft since 2003. Mizzou fans love their Missouri Tigers hat.
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