Gavin Cross could develop into the highest Major League Baseball draft select in Virginia Tech historical past on Sunday night.
ESPN draft analyst Kiley McDaniel stated on a movie meeting Tuesday that there is an 85% probability the Virginia Tech heart fielder will be selected wherever from the eighth all round pick to the 14th over-all choose.
The earliest Key League Baseball draft select in Tech historical past was former main league pitcher Joe Saunders, who was picked out by the then-Anaheim Angles with the 12th overall select in the 2002 draft.
Cross is poised to turn into only the fourth person to ever be drafted out of Virginia Tech in the 1st round of the key league beginner draft. Franklin Stubbs went in the 1st round in 1982, when Brad DuVall went in the to start with round in equally 1987 and 1988. No Hokie has gone in the 1st spherical considering the fact that Saunders in 2002.
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The very first two rounds of the 20-spherical draft will air at 7 p.m. Sunday on ESPN and the MLB Community. Rounds 3-10 will be held Monday, with Rounds 11-20 on Tuesday.
Cross could help make Tech draft heritage in a different way.
This is expected to be the initially time that a few Hokies are selected in the best 5 rounds of the baseball draft in the similar yr. Cross, shortstop Tanner Schobel and catcher Cade Hunter are all predicted to go that superior.
Cross, Schobel and Hunter helped the Hokies go 45-14 and progress to the NCAA Super Regionals this calendar year.
Cross strike .328 with 14 doubles, eight triples, 17 homers, 50 RBIs, 70 runs and 12 stolen bases as a junior this year. He shined for the Usa Baseball collegiate national group last summer season.
“Cross is deceptively brief in the outfield — is in fact a decent centre fielder,” McDaniel stated. “[He] will almost certainly start out his pro vocation in center subject. I really don’t feel he ends up there. … I imagine he finishes up in appropriate discipline.”
