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Cards, Cubs, Sox Draft Recap

>>Cubs Take Almora With Sixth Overall Pick

(Secaucus, NJ)  --  Day One of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft is complete.  The Chicago Cubs selected 6-foot-1, 170-pound Mater Academy outfielder Albert Almora with the sixth overall pick.  The Cubs selected a pair of right-handed pitchers in the Compensatory Pick round.  They took Missouri State's Pierce Johnson with the 43rd pick and Paul Blackburn out of California's Heritage High School with the 56th selection.

>>Sox Select Hawkins With 13th Pick

(Secaucus, NJ)  --  The Chicago White Sox selected outfielder Courtney Hawkins with the 13th overall pick in yesterday's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.  The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Hawkins is out of Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, Texas.  The Southsiders also took King High School first baseman Keon Barnum 48th in the Compensatory Pick round.

>>Cards Pick Five On Draft's First Night

(New York, NY)  --  The Cardinals picked a pair of college stars last night in the First-Year Player Draft.  St. Louis used the 19th selection to pick right-handed pitcher Michael Wacha from Texas A&M.  With the 23rd pick, the Redbirds drafted Florida State outfielder James Ramsey.  The Cardinals also had three selections in the first Compensation Round.  At 36th overall, St. Louis picked third baseman Stephen Piscotty out of Stanford.  With the 52nd pick the Cards picked up another third baseman in Patrick Wisdom out of St. Mary's.  Finally with the 59th choice, St. Louis drafted Steve Bean, a catcher out of Rockwall High School in Texas.

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