{"id":12061,"date":"2019-06-06T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/?p=12061"},"modified":"2019-06-06T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T20:03:59","slug":"five-former-honkers-chosen-in-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/2019\/06\/06\/five-former-honkers-chosen-in-mlb-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Former Honkers Chosen in MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>ROCHESTER, MN. \u2013 \u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recent 2019 MLB Draft featured five former Honkers: Morgan McCullough, Kenyon Yovan, Josh Ibarra, Keaton Weisz and Jaylon McLaughlin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McCullough was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels with pick 661 in round 22. He played for the Honkers in 2017 while attending the University of Alabama. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yovan was also drafted by the Angels. He was picked with pick 811 in round 27. He pitched for the Honkers in 2017 while attending the University of Oregon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibarra was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers with pick 911 in round 30. He pitched for the Honkers in 2018 while attending Golden West College where he was coached by Honkers\u2019 Field Manager Thomas Walker. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weisz was the third former Honkers drafted by the Angels. He was chosen with pick 1081 in round 36. He played for the Honkers in 2016 while attending Coastal Carolina University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McLaughlin was drafted by the Chicago Cubs with pick 1122 in round 37. He played for the Honkers in 2018 while attending the University of Nevada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Season tickets and new all-you-can-eat ticket packages are available for purchase right now at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterhonkers.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.RochesterHonkers.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or by calling the Honkers front office at 507-289-1170.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rochester Honkers are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Now in its 26<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> season, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 20 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">over 200\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">former Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">including three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champions Ben Zobrist (CHC) and Brandon Crawford (SFG) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET) and Curtis Granderson (MIA).\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All league games are viewable live via the\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.emailsrvr.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=Md8hbkEjI7D-eltphWRtYyD6k44HY4TRag2yDAokxO5a5iHFlCjWCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fportal.stretchinternet.com%2fnwl%2f\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northwoods League portal<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochesterhonkers.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.rochesterhonkers.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0or download the new Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play and set the Honkers as your favorite team.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">####<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ROCHESTER, MN. \u2013 \u00a0The recent 2019 MLB Draft featured five former Honkers: Morgan McCullough, Kenyon Yovan, Josh Ibarra, Keaton  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12062,"comment_status":"closed","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":[34,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepagenewsslider","category-team-news","category-update-ticker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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