21 - Connor Hoover, Junior LH SS from North Georgia. His college team was the Nighthawks of D-II ball, but he hit .360/ .480/ .705 for that team with a huge home run jump (18 this year against just 4 last year). Doesn't seem to be the best fielder, but if that bat improvement is legit a shift over to second base isn't exactly a death knell. I'm curious to see him.
22 - Johnny Adams, Senior RH SS from Boston College. He'll be 23 in September and he can't hit a lick (slugged under .300 this year with a .211 BA). It's good to have defense up the middle though, I guess. It helps the pitchers.
23 - Sam Delaplane, Senior RHP from Eastern MI. Back to our well of short pitchers; he's 5'11, 175. They let him start more as a senior, but he also pitched several games in relief and even got a save. He throws 90-94 though, with a reportedly good slider. Throw him on the reliever pile.
24 - Louis Boyd, Senior RH SS from Arizona. All the shortstops. ALL OF THEM. He can't hit either, but that's not really the point of a glove infielder I guess.
25 - Bryan Pall, Jr RHP from Michigan. Interesting because the RH reliever only pitched a handful of innings before his season ended with an injury. He was a freshman All-American two years ago and was a great pen arm for Michigan last year. This is a flier to see if he wants to leave college early rather than risk another injury there.
26 - Austin Hutchison, Senior RHP from Mt. Olive. Hutchison is a standard 9 K / 3 BB righty starter who was very hard to hit this year, keeping his ERA under 2. He grew 4 or 5 inches after high school to his now-6'2 frame and worked his way up from community college to now getting drafted. I don't know how much it improved his fastball, but he has a changeup and curve as well.
27 - Collin Kober, Senior RHP from McNeese St. He was a really good control pitcher for McNeese out of the pen, but his Ks just crossed 10 this year while keeping a 4:1 K:BB ratio. As of last year he was an upper-80s sidearmer, so we'll see if that keeps working for him.
28 - Johnny Slater, Senior CF fom Michigan. Our Gloves-Only draft remains 100% intact even at this late pick. Another guy who didn't hit at all his first 3 years but found it as a senior (.300 /.370 / .490). His batting eye is still .50 which isn't good in college, and he didn't hit at all with wood bats over the summer the last two years, but it's the 28th round - see what happens.
29 - David Gerber, Jr RHP from Creighton. He was Creighton's closer but was more of a location-and-angle guy than a brute force guy - another sidearm type.
30 - Scott Boches, Jr RHP from Marist College. He has the height at 6'5, 205, but his Ks were very soft until this year. He got 9K against 2.8 BB as a starter this year but has done relief work in the past.