Draft Pick Discussion Thread, Rounds 21-50

[colbyjack]

Please use this thread to share your thoughts, links, stories, pictures and anything else on the Brewers picks on draft day from rounds 21 through 50. Please do not start separate threads to discuss the individual picks.

[jwill535]

Round 21

 

Connor Hoehn R/R RHP St Johns HS, MD

 

6'1

 

mlb.mlb.com/media/player/...free&_mp=1

[DHonks]

Hoehn really throws from a low arm angle, almost like the Weaver brothers. It should help prevent arm injuries. He was dialing it up during the game on video, consistently hitting 91 and 92. Looks like a very good mid-round pick

[jwill535]

Round 22

 

Matthew Cline R/R SS Cal St Long Beach

 

5'10 155?!? wow

 

www.longbeachstate.com/bb...ine06.html

[jwill535]

Round 23

 

William (Cody) Hawn L/R 3rd South Doyle Hs, TN

 

6'1 195

 

committed to arkansas

 

Injuried Knee and didnt play his senior year

[Team Canada]

5'10 155?!? wow

 

The link says 175, is that like a football weight?

[jwill535]

Round 24

 

Jonathan White L/L Cf Vanderbilt (yeah another lefty CF)

 

6'2 198

 

 

mlb.mlb.com/media/player/...free&_mp=1

 

 

vucommodores.cstv.com/spo...han00.html

[jwill535]

Round 25

 

Chaddwick Bell R/L LHP South Doyle HS, TN(teamate of Hawn)

 

6'3 200

 

 

 

gotigersgo.cstv.com/sport...06aab.html

[jwill535]

Round 26

 

Ben Feltner S/R RF Texas A&M JR

 

5'11" 185

 

mlb.mlb.com/media/player/...free&_mp=1

 

www.aggieathletics.com/bi...2&YOS=2007

[jwill535]

Round 27

 

Joshua Trejo L/L LHP James Logan High School CA

 

6'1

[jwill535]

Round 28

 

Steffan Wilson R/R 3rd Harvard(Team GPA Helper)

 

6'1 220

 

www.gocrimson.com/ViewArt...EASON=2006

[jwill535]

Round 29

 

Travis Nevakshonoff R/R RHP DW Poppy SS

 

6' 180

[jwill535]

sorry someone has to pick up for me, i am leaving work

[Team Canada]

Well, they are also being recorded in the official picks thread, so it should be fine.

[colbyjack]

Jonathan White is going to be a tough sign. He is almost guaranteed more playing time next year for Vandy, and is an amazing athlete and could really explode with a full season.

 

If the Brewers sign him, he is a huge sleeper to watch from this draft class.

[tbbrewers]

My wife was his hygienist for several years. A really good young man who had a bad break for his senior season. Chad Bell is also a good player as well.

 

www.knoxnews.com/kns/prep...21,00.html

[DHonks]

interesting that Toronto has already concluded their draft

[patrickgpe]

yeah that is weird. I know its going to be a long day with having to make 45 picks. But make them. I hope we don't stop till 50.

[nikip43]

Baseball Factory best tools list

 

Cody Hawn finds his name listed several times on a Tennessee list of baseball prospects (2006 season-junior season)

 

-and-

 

Arkansas Razorbacks fansite recruit page (6 names down)

Quote:

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Cody Hawn OF / 3B / C 6-1 195 L / R

Knoxville, TN (South Doyle High School Cherokees) / other link

 

 

Hit .419 with 11 homeruns and 37 RBI in 2005.

 

Batted .560 with 54 runs, 55 hits, 17 homeruns, 56 RBI and 31 walks in 2006.

 

All-PrepXtra First Team and All-KIL in 2006.

 

Attended the Perfect Game National Showcase at Baum Stadium in June 2006.

 

PG REPORT: Body - strong and athletic. Offense - square stance, strength shows, aggressive, plus bat speed, starts with high hands, slight hitch mechanism, some whippy life in swing, solid contact, hips early, can be long thru zone, has some power. Defense - strong average arm, easy exit from hand.

 

Verbally committed in July 2006. Signed on November 8.

 

Chose Arkansas over Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Tulane and Memphis.

 

Named a Louisville Slugger Preseason High School All-American on January 24, 2007.

 

Named to the Rawlings Preseason All-Region team.

 

Suffered an ACL injury in 2007 and will miss his entire senior season.

 

Ranked #16 on Baseball America's list of Top Draft Prospects from Tennessee.

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[And That]

47th rounder Aaron Tullo was a DFE candidate whom was not signed.

[Boy Jeenius]

Brewers are done drafting? Tullo is their last pick. Interesting that he was an unsigned DFE this year. Maybe summer league play will cause him to be signable and ready for fall ball?

[And That]

Tullo walked a ton of guys in JC this year. Perhaps the Brewers are giving him one last shot to get some control on the mound before he enrolls in a 4-year school.

[SoCalBrewfan]

If you go back to colby's DFE thread, you'll see that Tullo was coming back from Tommy John surgery...it seems like his velocity is back but sometimes the command comes a little later. They apparently throught there was enough fire in his arm to give him a little more time to work on the control.

[Mass Haas]

Also posted in the "Official Draft Pick Thread" --

 

Link while active, text follows:

 

Neshannock's Tanner among selections on MLB draft's second day

 

By The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Saturday, June 9, 2007

 

When Jordan Tanner went to bed Friday morning at 5 after graduating from Neshannock High School, he had no idea he would wake up 12 hours later as a professional baseball player.

 

Tanner, a pitcher and the grandson of former Pirates manager Chuck Tanner, was taken in the 40th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Milwaukee Brewers. He was the 1,198th player selected.

 

"I got the call at 5:50, not five minutes after I woke up," said Tanner, a 6-foot-4, 190-pound right-hander who was 3-1 this season.

 

Tanner said he wasn't sure he would be drafted.

 

"Some people had talked to my grandfather, but I had more wishful thinking, hoping I would get drafted."

 

Tanner, whose father Bruce is a former Pirates bullpen coach and currently serves as an advance scout for the Detroit Tigers, has not picked a college and is undecided about his future.

 

"I'm waiting to talk to one of the scouts for the Brewers and see what they have to say and go from there," he said.

 

Tanner said he wasn't pushed into baseball by his father and grandfather.

 

"I always loved playing. It has never been something they made me do."

[Mass Haas]

Also posted in the "Official Draft Pick Thread" --

 

Rindal Keeps It Simple At First Base

 

Mt. Vernon native is lone Husky senior

April 19, 2007

By James Schleicher

The Daily (University of Washington)

 

With two men on base in the ninth inning of a game against UC Riverside, Husky first baseman Curt Rindal stepped up to the plate against pitcher Joe Kelly, who had yet to have a run scored against him this season. After fouling off pitch after pitch, Rindal finally saw the one he wanted and blasted it through the gap between short and third.

 

The ball streamed out onto the grass as Jake Rife rounded third and scored the winning run to complete a three-game sweep of UCR.

 

This is a perfect example of what Rindal does best.

 

"I was just trying to fight there with two strikes," Rindal said. "He hung one up and I did what I did with it."

 

With a closer look at what this 23-year-old redshirt senior does during every at-bat, one can see that hitting is almost second nature to him now. His physical ability, organization, ability to take advice and use it and spirit of competition all play a role.

 

One of the biggest forces comes in his ability to push himself. But to him the formula has all been simplified.

 

When he talks about hitting, his smile seems to echo his love of the game and the challenges it gives him.

 

"I like competing, but the thing I like most is hitting," Rindal said. "I love to hit, and man, I like hitting home runs. It's always been something I've worked at and gotten better at, and I think that's why I play, maybe, is to hit."

 

Before Rindal even steps into the batter's box, he takes a few deep breaths to calm himself and focus on the task at hand.

 

"All I'm thinking is, get my foot down and go," Rindal said.

 

This calmness and focus may have developed on the Skagit River while fishing quietly with his father and brothers. He may have learned it while sitting nearby in a marsh, hunting ducks with lifelong friend Travis Storrer. It shows in the most pressure-filled situations, as Rindal seems to just calmly stay focused on connecting with the ball.

 

He usually sees it pretty well. This eye for the ball comes from some 15 years of having pitches thrown to him. It shows in his .346 batting average.

 

At age 8, Rindal started playing baseball and met Storrer. The two would soon become almost inseparable. They started playing on the same baseball team at age 10, when they outgrew slow pitch and started playing fast pitch with the older 12-year-olds.

 

In their free time, the two would almost inevitably end up hitting balls in Storrer's barn, where he had a batting cage, or in Rindal's rec room, where he had a pitching machine for wiffle balls.

 

"He'd come over and we'd want to go do something, and we'd wind up just staying up there and hitting," Rindal said. "We'd make games of it and that's where we got the most practice."

 

Rindal's mother Teresa said the two were characters.

 

"They would egg each other on, and it was kind of like `iron sharpens iron,'" she said. "They would practice, and shoot these fly balls up in space, and then they'd practice catching fly balls."

 

Rindal said playing baseball has always been an activity he loved to do.

 

"It was never something we were forced to do at all, and I think that's why I'm still playing it," Rindal said. "That's what makes it fun, that you can't take it too serious. I look forward to going out and playing [in the big leagues]."

 

Now years later, all the hard work has obviously paid off. Rindal leads the Huskies in home runs (8), RBI (37) and hits (47).

 

"He's always been a hard worker," Storrer said. "He's got a really good strong family background, and he believes in the Lord. He's just an all-around great guy."

 

Along with their hours upon hours of hitting practice, Rindal and Storrer also played other sports to stay in shape for baseball during high school. At Mount Vernon High, they played doubles tennis, where they won a league championship, and played on the basketball team.

 

Then, of course, came baseball in the spring, where both played pivotal roles in helping their team to two top-five finishes in the state.

 

Teresa Rindal said her son's competitive nature and athletic ability showed up at an early age.

 

"His brothers, if they would race, they all had to have numbers, they had to have a start and finish line," she said. "He was always competitive."

 

Growing up as the middle child in a pack of five, Curt had the best of both worlds. His older brother and sister set the example for him and gave him a way to follow, while he tried to lead his two younger brothers.

 

"At home he's just a hard worker; his dad taught him how to work hard and re-finish [his] desk and do things like that," Storrer said.

 

His mother homeschooled the five children through eighth grade and taught them how to motivate themselves and take initiative. Along with school lessons, the Rindals taught their children how to work by teaching them to do jobs like mowing the fields on their 28-acre property in Conway, Wash., or cleaning their father's chiropractic clinic.

 

"We just had opportunities for them to learn how to work and have a job," she said. "His dad was always out with them showing them what to do, and then they could go do that."

 

Instead of mentioning professional baseball players or coaches, Rindal said that his dad was the person he looked up to the most in life.

 

"He's been a big influence in my life, teaching me about hard work and having a work ethic," Rindal said.

 

This work ethic shows both on and off the field. Rindal earned his economics degree in four years, despite the demands of baseball practice and games.

 

Last year, when Rindal did not get picked up in the Major League draft, teams told him that the biggest factor for not picking him was history. Despite the fact he was All-Pac-10, he had only one big year in the Husky lineup because of his sophomore year injury. He played backup to Kyle Larsen his junior year.

 

"I had a good year and played well enough that I figured I would get picked up, and once I didn't it was disappointing," Rindal said. "I had to make that decision to come back, but at this point I still want to keep playing. I still want to pursue it, but if I don't [get picked], I've done everything I can."

 

This year, as the Huskies' lone senior, most of his longtime friends on the team have graduated and been drafted.

 

"It's different not having any of those guys I've been playing with for years," Rindal said. "But it's been great; I like the guys that I'm playing with. I'm glad to be back and still be playing."

 

On the team, he has led by example with his hard work at the plate and good defense at first. The draft in June sits on the horizon, but before that he will try to make sure the Huskies make the playoffs - he'll see what happens from there.

 

If he makes it, Rindal looks forward to playing even more and finding new challenges at the next level. If he does not get drafted, he said he plans to take a break and enjoy his free time.

 

"I haven't had any free time for awhile," Rindal said. "I've never had a spring break in my entire life. I don't even know what it is."

 

Not knowing what the future will hold, Rindal will continue step to the plate and try to keep it simple.

 

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