{"id":9419,"date":"2017-06-15T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2017-06-15T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:33:11","slug":"northwoods-league-players-chosen-throughout-2017-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/rochester-honkers\/2017\/06\/15\/northwoods-league-players-chosen-throughout-2017-mlb-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwoods League Players Chosen Throughout the 2017 MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>180 Current and Former Players Selected overall<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Rochester, Minn<\/strong>. &ndash; The 2017 Major League First-Year Player Draft was held June 12 through June 14 and the Northwoods League was well represented. A total of 180 current Northwoods League players and alumni were selected in this year&rsquo;s draft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Some of the finest amateur baseball players in the world &#8211; those forged in the crucible of the Northwoods League &#8211; were up for grabs in this week&#039;s MLB draft,&quot; said Northwoods League President Gary Hoover.&nbsp; &quot;The Northwoods League&#039;s role in developing players, made possible by our model and our excellent operators, continues to become more apparent.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe highest pick in this year&rsquo;s draft was Greg Deichmann, a junior outfielder from LSU. Deichmann was picked in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round by the Oakland Athletics with the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> overall pick. Deichmann played for the Lakeshore Chinooks in 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOf the 180 players drafted 41 of them had played in the Northwoods League Major League Dreams Showcase. The Major League Dreams Showcase brings together 100 of the Northwoods League&rsquo;s top prospects to form four teams for a day of scouting workouts and double-header action. Played in front of Major League scouts, the Showcase provides an invaluable platform for players looking to one day make it into the professional ranks.&nbsp; Participating players are hand-selected by a panel of MLB scouts, distinguishing this event from the more traditional All-Star Game format that features representatives from every team. This year&rsquo;s Major League Dreams Showcase will take place on August 8<sup>th<\/sup> in Madison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe La Crosse Loggers had a league high 17 players drafted this year. The highest pick for the Loggers came in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round, when catcher Riley Adams from UC San Diego was taken 99<sup>th<\/sup> overall by the Toronto Blue Jays.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Toronto Blue Jays had the most selections of Northwoods League players as they selected 13. The Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies each selected 11 Northwoods League players.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe full list of 2017 NWL draftees can be found by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a> and clicking the about NWL link at the top of the page and then select Draft Results.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t###\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The Northwoods League is the proven leader in the development of elite college baseball players. The 23-year old summer collegiate 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. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 170 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (WAS), two-time World Series Champion Ben Zobrist (CHC) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (BOS), Jordan Zimmermann (DET), Curtis Granderson (NYM) and Lucas Duda (NYM). All league games are viewable live via the Northwoods League website. For more information, visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a><em> or download the Northwoods League Mobile App on the Apple App Store or on Google Play.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 180 Current and Former Players Selected overall Rochester, Minn. &ndash; The 2017 Major League First-Year Player Draft was held  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9420,"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":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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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