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Round 25: Mike Goetz - CF

5'11", 190 lbs, L/R - UW-Milwaukee (WI)

 

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Born 7/22/1984

 

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Goetz named Louisville Slugger All-American

 

Goetz Named Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American

Earns second team honors after prolific 2006 campaign

 

June 2, 2006

 

MILWAUKEE - Senior Mike Goetz of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been selected as a member of the Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American baseball teams, announced today by Collegiate Baseball newspaper.

 

Goetz was named to the Second Team at his outfielder position, becoming the first-ever All-American in the history of the Milwaukee baseball program. The three teams were chosen by performances up to regional playoffs and picked by the staff of Collegiate Baseball newspaper.

 

"Nobody was more deserving of this type of recognition than Mike was this year," UWM assistant head coach Scott Doffek said. "This caps just a tremendous career here at Milwaukee for Mike. The coaching staff and athletic department are very proud of him and what he accomplished this season."

 

The award caps arguably the greatest season in the history of UWM baseball. Goetz was named Horizon League Player of the Year as well as a member of the All-League First Team. He reached base safely in all 57 games (32-25 win-loss record) during the season, recording hits in all but two games. He put together hitting streaks of 32 and 27 games, concluding the season with a school-record .493 batting average, which currently leads the nation by 29 points. In addition to the nation's best average, he also tops the country with his .579 on-base percentage and 111 hits.

 

He finished the year with UWM season records in batting average, on-base percentage, hits, doubles (23), triples (6-tie), total bases (155) and walks (41-tie). He nearly added the runs scored standard as well, scoring 67 times on the season to miss the mark of 68 by just one.

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Round 26: Marc Lewis - LHP

6'0", 205 lbs, L/L - Creighton University (NE)

 

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Born 10/3/1984

 

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Comeback by Creighton pitcher Lewis rewarded

 

BY STEVEN PIVOVAR

OMAHA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

May 23, 2006

 

It took just a year for Creighton's Marc Lewis to go from a pitcher with an uncertain future to an all-conference performer.

 

Lewis received some good news Monday shortly before leaving for Wichita, Kan., where he'll start Wednesday's opening game of the Missouri Valley tournament against Wichita State. Lewis and CU third baseman-outfielder Zach Daeges earned slots on the first-team all-conference squad, while CU outfielder Chase Odenreider was a second-team pick. Catcher Chris Gradoville and pitcher Adam Schaecher earned honorable mention.

 

Lewis' selection came a year and three days after he underwent reconstructive surgery on his pitching elbow to repair a torn ligament. He made it back in time to pitch in Creighton's first series of the season, and the left-hander went on to post a 7-0 record and a 2.36 ERA, third-best in the league.

 

"It's really hard to think it was a year ago," said Lewis, a frustrated spectator at Creighton's runner-up finishes at the Valley tournament and the NCAA Lincoln regional last season. "It's been an interesting year as far as rehab and coming back. I feel very blessed that I've been given this opportunity."

 

No one gave Lewis anything, Creighton coach Ed Servais said. The junior left-hander earned it through hard work and an uncompromising belief that he could contribute this season.

 

In a meeting with Lewis last June, Servais raised the possibility that the pitcher might want to consider redshirting in 2006. Lewis refused to consider that an option, although he knew it sometimes took pitchers up to 18 months to fully recover from the surgery named after former major league pitcher Tommy John.

 

"If you would have told me last June that he'd be an all-conference pitcher and he'd be starting our first game of the conference tournament, I would have said absolutely not," Servais said. "I thought it would have been a nice deal if he could be able to work out of the bullpen, pitching an inning every other game.

 

"He's proved us all wrong, and I'm really proud of what he's done. He deserves this."

 

Lewis spent the first seven weeks of the season working under a strict pitch count. That left him ineligible to get credit for wins because he could not pitch the necessary five innings.

 

But since beating Wichita State in the second week of conference play, Lewis has pitched 43 innings and allowed just six earned runs (1.26 ERA). He is 6-0 in his past seven starts and has allowed just two earned runs in his past 271/3 innings.

 

Since Wichita State might have five or six left-handed hitters in its lineup, Lewis is starting Wednesday's 7 p.m. game at Eck Stadium. Lewis shut out the Shockers for five innings in an April 1 victory in Omaha.

 

"Marc's pitched very well the last three or four times out, and I just like the matchup better against all their left-handed hitters," Servais said. "Last time we faced them they were vulnerable to left-handed pitching."

 

Schaecher, 5-2 with a 2.67 ERA as Creighton's seasonlong No. 1 starter, will pitch in Creighton's second game Thursday. Lewis said getting bumped ahead of Schaecher should not create any problems, even though he'll pitch on two days fewer rest.

 

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Bluejay Lewis Drafted

 

BY BRIAN NORTON

OMAHA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

 

A trio of Creighton Bluejays joined teammate Zach Daeges as selections during the second day of the major league baseball draft Wednesday.

 

Milwaukee picked junior left-hander Marc Lewis in the 26th round. Adam Schaecher, a senior pitcher from Omaha Bryan, was selected by Texas in the 31st round, and Chase Odenreider, a senior outfielder from Millard North, went to the New York Yankees in the 49th round.

 

Lewis, from Plainfield, Ill., returned this season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in May 2005. He was 7-0 with a 2.81 ERA and earned first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors.

 

"My coaches kept telling me to get after it (following the surgery). I had a lot of positive things coming from the seniors, my teammates, roommates, my family, everyone," Lewis said. "They told me to keep on pushing to my goals this season. Obviously it was enough to impress at least one team today."

 

If Lewis opts to leave Creighton, his presence on the mound will be missed: The Bluejays won in his final 13 starts of the year. But he is undecided about his future.

 

"It was very exciting. It was one of those things you dream about as a kid, and I couldn't be happier," he said. "I'm going to meet with the scout that drafted me tomorrow morning and talk things over . . . I talked to Coach (Ed) Servais about it today.

 

"I've got a lot of things to weigh. We've got a good team coming in next year. It's going to be a tough decision."

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Round 27: T.J. Macy - RHP

6'3", 210 lbs, R/R - Scottsdale CC (AZ)

 

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Went 4-3 with a 3.29 ERA in 54.2 IP, 57 K, 19 BB.

 

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Former Bishop Kelly pitcher Macy drafted

 

Idaho Statesman Staff Article

 

Former Bishop Kelly High (Idaho) right-hander T.J. Macy was drafted in the 27th round by the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday during the second day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

 

"It's a new process for me," Macy said. "I was just glad to get picked up."

 

Macy pitched at Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College this year after graduating from Bishop Kelly in 2005.

 

He posted a record of 5-4 with a 3.04 ERA and struck out 71 in 68 innings in 2006 in Scottsdale.

 

Macy said he plans to return to school next year instead of signing with the Brewers.

 

"Top 10 (rounds), that's when teams want you to go," he said. "Hopefully, I'll go back to school and have a better year."

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Round 31: Robert Bryson - RHP

6'1", 200 lbs, R/R - William Penn HS (DE)

 

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Bryson drafted, weighs college

 

By BUDDY HURLOCK

The Delaware News Journal

 

Even though the next level of baseball where he will play likely will be college, Wednesday still was a special day for William Penn High's Rob Bryson.

 

Bryson was selected Wednesday during the Major League Baseball first-year player draft, in the 31st round by the Milwaukee Brewers.

 

The draft started Tuesday and resumed Wednesday with the 19th round. Bryson, a 6-foot-1 right-hander, said his selection is of the "draft and follow" variety -- when teams choose players who plan to attend junior college.

 

Bryson said he will attend Okaloosa-Walton College in Niceville, Fla., which has offered him a scholarship, or Cecil (Md.) Community College. Milwaukee would retain the rights to sign Bryson up until a week before next year's draft.

 

"Draft and follow is better," Bryson said, "because I don't think I'm ready to go and sign right now. It'll give me an extra year under my belt. I'll get to see better competition in [college] and they can follow me all year long. Hopefully, I can show what I can do."

 

William Penn coach Mel Gardner worked as an associate scout for the Texas Rangers in 2001 and 2002. He said the draft-and-follow approach is done "with a lot of kids who are picked in the later rounds."

 

"Sometimes they will sign you," Gardner said. "But it can help you and it gives you a chance to grow for a year and get better. And if you do real well, you have something to bargain with. They don't want you to go back into the draft and go to another team."

 

William Penn lost 2-1 to Caravel in this year's state championship, when Bryson pitched. Caravel scored two unearned runs in the top of the first inning, and Bryson went on to retire the last 18 batters he faced. In the regular season, Bryson went 8-1 with five complete games and a 1.00 ERA, striking out 97 and walking 10 in 53 innings.

 

"I was kind of hoping to be drafted a little higher," Bryson said. "But I was more or less going to be a draft-and-follow."

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Round 32: Nicholas Tyson - RHP

6'2", 175 lbs, R/R - Timber Creek Regional HS (NJ)

 

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Nick Tyson took a rare path to becoming a baseball player

 

What's missing?

By KEVIN ROBERTS

Courier-Post Staff

January 25, 2006

 

Nick Tyson took a rare path to becoming a baseball player.

 

Survival.

 

"My brothers are six and eight years older than me," said Tyson, who was a first-team All-Group 3 pitcher and outfielder as a junior last spring at Timber Creek High School. "They played football and they wrestled. And they just beat up on me. My only chance was to throw something at them. And, you know, I only had one shot at it, so I had to be accurate.

 

"And that's how I developed a strong arm."

 

Tyson laughed. He was kidding. A little.

 

"It was something I could say I was better at than my brothers," Tyson said. "And when you're better at something, you stick with it. They always say they left the baseball to me.

 

"But I love to play. That game is like life, to me."

 

It's a rarity to hear Tyson talk like that -- a black kid who loves to play baseball. He grew up playing baseball, and when he looks around, looks back on those childhood games, he notes: "There's only one or two (black teammates). It's dropping off a lot."

 

On Tuesday, Jackie Robinson would have turned 87. And any discussion of the importance of the man who broke baseball's color barrier has to eventually come around to this inescapable reality:

 

Fewer and fewer black kids are following in Robinson's footsteps.

 

"They're just not coming out," said Ralph Williams, who has been the baseball coach at Camden High School for 12 years. "Each year it gets harder and harder.

 

"Baseball, for black kids, is like a dying art."

 

Said Pete Perez, president of Camden's Cramer Hill Little League: "Our coaches all say they wish they had more black kids. But we have very, very few."

 

In last year's World Series, the Houston Astros became the first team since the 1953 Yankees to play for the championship without a single black player on the roster. Since 1975, when 27 percent of major-leaguers were black, the numbers have steadily declined. Last season 8.9 percent of major-league players were black -- the lowest percentage since the 1950s.

 

It's not just the major leagues. According to the latest NCAA figures, blacks made up 6.8 percent of Division I scholarship baseball players. There were 43 black players in the NCAA basketball tournament's Final Four. In the Final Four of the College World Series, there were four black players.

 

Four.

 

Florida lapped the field with two. Arizona State -- alma mater of Barry Bonds and Reggie Jackson -- had zero.

 

And on it goes, down to high schools and Little League, where black players are becoming a rarity.

 

"They say the game is slow, compared to football and basketball," Williams said. "Kids can't relate to it. And, you know, they don't see anybody in the stands that looks like them."

 

That's an important point. According to the Journal of Leisure Studies, only one in 20 fans through the turnstiles of major-league ballparks is black. There is only one black general manager in the major leagues -- Kenny Williams, general manager of the world champion Chicago White Sox.

 

Ralph Williams notes that the inner cities don't have proper "feeder" programs to get kids into the game at a young age. Often his kids are playing organized baseball for the first time in high school -- a staggering disadvantage in a sport where the best players have been at it since early childhood.

 

Perez said Cramer Hill's Little League has around 300 participants. Of those, Perez estimates that around 10 percent are black.

 

"The majority of our league is Hispanic," Perez said. "The black kids, they just seem more geared toward basketball and football."

 

Camden High School doesn't have batting cages -- Williams throws batting practice in the school's gym, when he can get it. And Williams said his kids don't have the resources to go to Phillies games, attend camps, get year-round instruction.

 

"You can play basketball or football once a week and keep your skills," Williams said. "You can't do that in baseball. It takes a lot of time to be good. You've got to work every day. It's tough."

 

The simple fact is that baseball is an inherited game. It is not a game you learn to play and love as an adult. It's practically impossible to simply pick up the game; baseball skills are acquired and refined through endless repetition. There is nothing natural about any of it.

 

If you don't love the game as a kid, you can learn to appreciate it -- but it's hard to learn to love it.

 

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has often said he's distressed by the decline of the black player. The game is trying to address that through the RBI program -- Reviving Baseball in the inner cities. RBI is in its 17th season, providing disadvantaged youths the opportunity to learn baseball.

 

The Phillies were among the first teams to adopt the RBI program, which began in Los Angeles and by 1994 had expanded to every major league team and now encompasses 190 leagues in 185 cities.

 

Each year Phillies manager Charlie Manuel donates his fees from various clinics to the RBI program.

 

Still, the game has a lot of work to do.

 

It's certainly possible black kids will learn once again to love baseball. It's certainly possible that they recognize the importance and gravity of what Robinson did, and the opportunities they have because of him. But that history does not pull them toward baseball.

 

"They don't understand the history," Williams said. "They just don't know. They might know that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. But how good he was? How important he was? What he meant? I don't think they know.

 

"I try to teach kids not just how to play the game, but how to love it. It's just that each year it gets tougher."

 

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Added June 13, 2006

 

Six more from S.J. picked in the draft

KEVIN MINNICK

Courier-Post

 

The second day of Major League Baseball's First-Year Player Draft proved to be a day of firsts for several South Jersey high school programs.

 

Jim Birmingham and A.J. Casario of Overbrook and Timber Creek's Nick Tyson became the first players ever drafted out of their respective high schools Wednesday.

 

Tyson, a right-hander from Timber Creek, was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers with the 16th pick of the 32nd round (962nd overall). He's the first player in the school's five-year history to be drafted.

 

"It feels great. I'm speechless," Tyson said. "I didn't think it would be this big of a deal, but when it did come it hit me like a hard punch to the face."

 

Tyson said the Brewers selected him as a draft-and-follow. He expects to play at a junior college in Florida and see how things progress.

 

"I have things that need to be perfected," said Tyson, who was in school working on a science project when a teacher pulled him aside and broke the news.

 

"I was surprised. I was flipping out. I saw it coming, but didn't know when it would be."

 

"We were waiting just to see what would happen on the second day," Timber Creek coach Phil Fiore said. "We're excited for him, it's a special time. It will be interesting how it plays out."

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Round 35: Sanduan Dubose - 3B

6'0", 210 lbs, R/R - Stillman College (MS)

 

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Born 10/15/1982

 

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June 8, 2006

 

Stillman Player Selected in Baseball Draft

 

TUSCALOOSA, AL -- Sanduan Dubose, the only senior member of the 2006 Stillman College baseball team, was selected on the final day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Wednesday.

 

Dubose, who was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 35th round with the 1052nd pick, is the first Stillman athlete to be drafted by a professional sports franchise since Carl Hollis and Bernard Stranton were selected in the 1982 MLB draft. Hollis was taken in the 18th round with the 448th pick by the New York Mets and Stranton was picked in the 19th round by the Pittsburgh Pirates with the 476th pick.

 

"I'm glad that I was given an opportunity to go after my dream of being drafted by a Major League team," Dubose said. "The scouts for the Brewers saw me play a lot this year and I thought they would be interested in drafting me. I'm just happy that they selected me."

 

The 6'0, 210 pound Meridian, Mississippi native led the Tigers in most offensive categories and was nationally ranked in the following NCAA categories: # 4 in slugging percentage, # 9 in home runs, # 10 in RBI, # 17 batting avg., # 38 in walks, and # 44 in triples.

 

"I'm very happy for Sanduan," said Stillman head coach Donny Crawford. "Coaching Dubose this year has been a real joy for me. I don't know if I have ever been as excited to have a player on one of my teams. I told him that I was real proud of him."

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Round 37: Wes Munson - SS

6'2", 190 lbs, R/R - Fond du Lac HS (WI)

 

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Born 6/29/1987. Committed to the University of Missouri

 

Scouting Wisconsin 2006

Wes Munson-Fond du Lac

(Chad) Pierce's teammate at Fond du Lac, which will likely be a hot destination for local area scouts this spring. Munson is the team's starting shortstop, with a Major League frame, built wiry and strong at 6'2", 185 pounds. He displays very good actions on the infield, with good range, soft hands and a very strong throwing arm that should allow him to stick at the shortstop position at the next level. Munson also has very good hitting mechanics, with quick hands and balance that gives him a line-drive, contact hitting approach with good doubles power. His younger brother Sam, a high school sophomore, also plays on Fondy's Varsity squad, rounding out the left- side of the infield at third base. Wes Munson has committed to play for the Missouri Tigers.

 

Perfect Game 2006 Pre-draft Showcase

Perfect Game 2005 Spring Top Prospect Showcase

Perfect Game 2005 Midwest Top Prospect Showcase

 

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Round 40: Alexander Koronis - RHP

6'2", 187 lbs, R/R - Monsignor Pace HS (FL)

 

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Born 1/4/1988. Teammates of early rounders Chris Marrero and Adrian Cardenas at national powerhouse Monsignor Pace HS in Miami, FL.

 

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Round 42: Matt Peck - RHP

6'1", 200 lbs, R/R - Cowley College (OK)

 

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Born 2/2/1987

 

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June 8, 2006

 

Peck throws no-hitter hours after being drafted

 

Peck throws no-hitter as Majors win 3-0 at Bricktown

By Mark Rountree, Enidnews.com Sports Editor

 

OKLAHOMA CITY ? AT&T Bricktown Ballpark is regarded as Oklahoma?s field of dreams.

 

And it sure was for Matt Peck and the Enid Majors American Legion baseball team Wednesday night in the opening round of the Oklahoma Diamond Classic.

 

Using a fastball clocked as high as 89 mph and mixing in a sharp-breaking curveball, Peck pitched the first no-hitter of his American Legion career as the defending national champions beat the Lawton Colonels 3-0 at the home of the Oklahoma RedHawks, the AAA affiliate of the Texas Rangers.

 

?I?m speechless right now,? said Peck, who improved to 3-1 on the season.

 

The gem was the second no-hitter of Peck?s career. He pitched a no-hitter as a senior at Cimarron High School.

 

Peck?s performance came only hours after he was selected in the 42nd round by the Milwaukee Brewers in the Major League Baseball free-agent draft.

 

Peck, a standout pitcher at Cowley County (Kan.) Community College this spring, finished with 13 strikeouts and one walk. Only three Lawton players reached base ? one on an error, one on a walk and one on a wild pitch by Peck after a strikeout. No runner advanced past second base.

 

?The bell cow did it,? said Enid coach Bill Mayberry. ?He was on tonight.

 

?It was a big day for him. He gets drafted then goes out and throws a no-hitter.?

 

Enid right fielder John Dillingham helped preserve the no-hitter with a diving catch of a line drive by Michael Pierson to end the second inning.

 

Shortstop Tyson Seng turned a groundball into a double play in the fourth inning. Seng recorded the final out of the game with a nimble assist on a slow bouncing ball up the middle.

 

Peck?s efficiency on the mound led to a quickly paced, 81-minute game.

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Round 46: Aaron Johnson - C

6'0", 190 lbs, R/R - Lethbridge CC (Alberta)

 

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Born 3/15/1987. Likely plays for the Prairie Baseball Academy, as Lethbridge CC does not field a baseball team.

 

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Round 48: Brandon Owens - RHP

6'3", 180 lbs, R/R - Heritage HS (GA)

 

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