2005
| Round-Pick |
Team |
Player |
Position |
School |
| 3-81 |
AZ |
Jason Neighborgall |
RHP |
Georgia Tech |
| 3-83 |
AZ |
Micah Owings |
RHP |
Tulane |
| 4-114 |
WASH |
Justin Maxwell |
OF |
Maryland |
| 6-171 |
AZ |
Greg Smith |
RHP |
Lousiana State |
| 9-273 |
BAL |
Paco Figueroa |
OF |
Miami (FL) |
| 10-310 |
CUB |
Joe Simokaitis |
SS |
Nebraska |
| 13-382 |
KC |
Andrew Larsen |
OF |
SUNY-Stony Brook |
| 16-486 |
FLA |
Jon Lewis |
RHP |
SUNY-Stony Brook |
| 16-498 |
BOS |
Matt Mercurio |
3B |
Florida Southern |
| 18-546 |
FLA |
Kyle Padgett |
SS |
William & Mary |
| 21-641 |
OAK |
Mike Madsen |
RHP |
Ohio State |
| 22-656 |
TOR |
Dennis Bigley |
RHP |
Oral Roberts |
| 24-711 |
AZ |
Vincent Bongiovanni |
RHP |
Miami (FL) |
| 25-752 |
CIN |
Taylor Johnson |
OF |
Washington |
| 25-762 |
SF |
Barry Gunther |
C |
Mississippi |
| 48-1434 |
CLE |
Joseph Hunter |
OF |
Mississippi State |
| 48-1440 |
CUB |
Andy Hawranick |
C |
Georgia Tech |
2004
Yet again, Bourne
Brave alumni were prominent in the Major League Baseball First
Year Player Draft. In total, there were eighteen former Braves
selected. Also, the Braves had three alumni taken in the first
forty-four picks. These were J.P. Howell (LHP, U. Texas, Supplemental
first round, pick #31 by Kansas City), Eric Beattie (RHP,
U. Tampa, Second Round, pick #43 by Detroit) and Matt Durkin
(RHP, San Jose State, Second Round, pick #44 by the New York
Mets).
Braves Clean
Up In 2003 Draft
COMPLETE
LIST OF 2003 DRAFTEES
NEW YORK, NY — All totalled, the Cape Cod Baseball
League once again placed its firm mark on the Major League
First Year Player Draft, when last week 146 former Cape League
stars were selected by Major League franchises to join the
ranks of professional baseball.
The Bourne Braves, increasingly
popular with Upper Cape and off-Cape fans, boasted two of
nine Cape Leaguers selected in the first round and 10 players
altogether.
More than half of the Cape Leaguers
selected in the draft – 74 – were selected in
the top 10 rounds. Last year, only 65 Cape Leaguers were taken
in the top 10 rounds. In 2002, MLB franchises selected seven
Cape Leaguers in the first round, in contrast with nine taken
this year in the first round and two of the top of five players
selected overall. Last year, the Cape League was not represented
until Drew Meyer ( South Carolina ) was taken by Texas with
the 10th overall pick.
The first former Braves' player
selected in this year's draft were Brian Anderson and Conor
Jackson (first round), followed closely by 2002 all-star right-handed
relief ace Chris Ray (Wm. & Mary) who was taken with the
74th overall pick by the Baltimore Orioles organization.
Trey Webb (Baylor), who was the
West Division's all-star shortstop last summer, was the fourth
Braves' player selected (Round 5/147th pick), followed by
catcher David Castillo (Oral Roberts) and in Round 19, Matt
Tolbert (554th overall pick) who was selected by the Baltimore
Orioles.
Tolbert, projected to play shortstop
this season for the Bourne Braves, arrived at Coady Field
this week in top shape after a successful recovery from a
knee injury early last season.
Mike Dennison (Wichita State),
who pitched brilliantly for Bourne in the 2001 campaign and
was a CCBL all-star, followed soon after Tolbert when he was
taken by the Boston Red Sox in the 21st round with the 624th
overall selection.
Behind Dennison was Dane Bubela,
one of Bourne's top players last season, Ben Rowe (Oregon
State), Jared Theodorakos (Baylor) and two-time Cape League
all-star righthander Matt Brown from UC-Berkeley.
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