Sydney’s Travis Bazzana has been selected by the Cleveland Guardians with the top pick in Major League Baseball’s draft.
Oregon State second baseman Travis Bazzana has been selected by the Cleveland Guardians with the top pick in Major League Baseball’s draft.
Bazzana is the first second baseman to ever be selected with the No.1 overall pick. He set an Oregon State single-season record by scoring 84 runs and slugging .911. Bazzana also stole 16 bases and boasted a .568 on-base percentage. Cleveland had the top pick for the first time since the draft began in 1965, winning a weighted lottery in December despite having a 2 per cent chance. The lottery began last year as part of a collective bargaining agreement provision to discourage struggling teams from deliberately trying for a top draft pick by getting rid of veterans.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred was booed by the roughly 2000 fans on hand when he emerged on stage through the set’s saloon doors.This is uncharted territory for Australian baseball. Of the 38 Australians to have played at the top level of baseball in the US, a third were pitchers. That makes it harder for baseball novices in Australia to follow their careers because starting pitchers play every four or five days, and relief pitchers could be called in from the bullpen at any moment.
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