MLB Draft

If Major League Baseball amateur draft on Monday wore Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin influence permeated the event. By the time the first round and compensation in closed, his hand was a four-team pitchers heard his name called. Vanderbilt ties with four players - two pitchers and two starting rookies - the first 60 items were selected in the MLB Draft. Friday / Saturday starters Sonny Gray Grayson Garvin was the first of two current players were picked. Super rookies Tyler Beed and Kevin Comer picked up in high school, and the same team.

Gray, a possible top five pick in next season, fell to the Oakland Athletics in the 18th, that the things the Commodores. Gray was an impressive season, but questions about the size (5'11 ", she is less than most starting pitchers in Major League) are sliding down the draft board. However, the Pride of Smyrna a chance to direct a impact to see A's as one of the most polished pitchers in the draft this year. Gray is dominant at every level that he played so far, starting with the whole high school, summer league in SEC play and even an impressive stint in American baseball.

Gray, a partner in nausea, Grayson Garvin, Commodore was the next to be selected on Monday night. Garvin, physically imposing lefty, who is the 2011 SEC Pitcher of the Year, went to the 59th Overall, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He will join another former Vanderbilt ace of the staff there - last year's Cy Young Award runner-up David Price.