Baseball To Hold Annual MLB Scout Day On Wednesday

Ravens juniors and seniors to workout in advance of next June’s draft

Franklin Pierce Scout Day Participants (PDF)

RINDGE, N.H. (October 13, 2009) – The three-time defending Northeast-10 Conference champion Franklin Pierce University baseball team will host its annual Major League Baseball Scout Day on Wednesday, Oct. 14, beginning at 12:15 p.m. at Dr. Arthur and Martha Pappas Field.

Professional scouts from the Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals are all confirmed to be in attendance on Wednesday afternoon, in addition to a representative from the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau.

The scouts will be observing Franklin Pierce’s draft-eligible student-athletes as they workout at Pappas Field. The junior and senior members of the Ravens will look to make their impressions on Wednesday and all throughout the spring, in preparation for the 2010 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, scheduled for next June.

The Ravens have seen plenty of success in the draft in recent years, with at least one player being selected in every MLB Draft since 2001. All of Franklin Pierce’s 16 all-time draft selections have come since 2001 and the Ravens place third among New England institutions for most draft picks in that time period behind only Boston College (28 selections) and Connecticut (20).

This past summer, right-handed pitcher Kyle Vazquez was selected in the 15th round (447 overall) by the San Francisco Giants and later captured a Northwest League championship with the Giants’ Class-A affiliate, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Franklin Pierce finished the 2009 campaign with a 37-18 record and captured its third Northeast-10 Conference regular season title in four years this spring and followed that with its third consecutive Northeast-10 Championship title, which was the program’s fourth in five years. Franklin Pierce earned the second seed in the NCAA Division II Baseball Championship East Regional and hosted an NCAA regional for the fifth consecutive season.