{"id":6160,"date":"2015-08-04T05:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/kalamazoo-growlers\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2015-08-10T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T07:51:58","slug":"2015-mlb-draft-sees-close-to-200-northwoods-league-players-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/kalamazoo-growlers\/2015-mlb-draft-sees-close-to-200-northwoods-league-players-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 MLB Draft Sees Close to 200 Northwoods League Players Selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\"><strong>ROCHESTER, Minn.<\/strong> &ndash; The 2015 Major League First-Year Player Draft was held June 8 through June 10 and the Northwoods League was once again very well represented. A total of 194 current Northwoods League players and alumni were selected in this year&rsquo;s draft.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;&quot;The talent level in the Northwoods League continues to rise at a never before seen rate, at least in terms of Summer Collegiate Baseball,&ldquo; said Northwoods League President, Dick Radatz, Jr. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t wait to see what the future holds.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;The highest pick in this year&rsquo;s draft was Alex Young, a junior left handed pitcher at TCU. Young was picked in the 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> round by the Arizona Diamondbacks with the 43rd overall pick. He appeared in 4 games with the Lakeshore Chinooks in 2013. Young had a 2.33 ERA and struck out 21 batters in 19.1 innings pitched that summer.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">The Battle Creek Bombers had a league high 19 players drafted this year and the Madison Mallards, La Crosse Loggers and Lakeshore Chinooks each had 17 players selected.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;The highest pick for the Bombers came in the fourth round, when catcher Kade Scivicque from LSU was taken 130<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> overall by the Detroit Tigers. Scivicque played for the Bombers in 2013 and hit .256 in 54 games.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;The Mallards highest pick came in the fourth round when the Boston Red Sox selected Missouri State CF Tate Matheny with the 111<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> overall pick. Matheny was with the Mallards during the 2013 season.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;The Loggers highest pick in the 2015 draft occurred in the 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> round when Pittsburgh selected former La Crosse shortstop Kevin Kramer from UCLA with the 62<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> overall pick. Kramer played for the Loggers in 2012.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n\t<span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;The full list of 2015 NWL draftees can be found by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/span><\/a> and clicking the about NWL link at the top of the page and then select Draft Results.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, Minn. &ndash; The 2015 Major League First-Year Player Draft was held June 8 through June 10 and the Northwoods  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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