In the 30th round, Jordan Pries was drafted by the Seattle Mariners. Your Fullerton Regional Most Outstanding Player was 6-5 on the season with a 3.24 ERA. He held opposing batters to a .263 average and struck out 74 to 30 walks.

In the 34th round, catcher Zach Jones was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 55 games played, he had a .261/.332/.414 line, 4 home runs, and 28 RBI. He allowed 23 stolen bases and caught 17 runners stealing. He finished the season with a 42% CS%.

LHP Brett Mooneyham was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 38th round. He did not pitch this season because of an injury.

The San Francisco Giants drafted Danny Sandbrink in the 42nd round. He went 4-1 this season with a 3.39 ERA in 13 appearances, 8 of which were starts. He struck out 45 to 15 walks and held opposing batters to a .237 average.

Congratulations to all!

And Jord, feel free to drive around Palo Alto with the rest of the drafted and sing to pop songs.

LHP Scott Snodgress was drafted 171 overall in the 5th round by the Chicago White Sox.

This season, Snodgress was 2-2 in 25 appearances. He walked 28, struck out 38, and held opposing batters to a .231 average. He had a season ERA of 4.65.

Congratulations, Scott!

I am literally flailing in my basement. I didn’t think he was going to go in the first round. I was shocked.

Congratulations, Chris! SO proud of you!

So we swept Cal this weekend. That means they didn’t beat us at anything this year that involved playing baseball. Isn’t that awesome? We think so.

Anyhow, here’s some important things so you can see us on TV. We look cool on TV.

• Regionals. You can catch us on ESPNU on Friday, presuming you get that channel. We’ll be playing at 4 pm, which I’m pretty sure is in Pacific time because we’re playing at Fullerton. Please be excited for us and cheer us on so we win. We also like being reminded we are smart.
• People who won awards. Piscotty was First Team All Pac-10. Ragira was Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. Ragira, Kenny Diekroeger, Tyler Gaffney, Chris Reed, Jake Stewart and Austin Wilson all made honorable mention, as well. So we win things. We are cool besides being smart.

Now that you’re all excited for us and stuff, the next big event after the postseason is the MLB Draft, which is a week from now. Less than that, even, since it starts on Monday. So maybe some of these boys will become professionals in something other than neuroscience.

Okay, so I decided to go and read through a mock draft to see what scouts were saying about the Pac-10. This particular mock has the first ten rounds up, and I took a tally of how many Pac-10 players from each school went in those rounds. Here’s what I’ve got:

Stanford: 3 (Mooneyham, Snodgress and Reed)
Oregon State: 3
Oregon: 4
UCLA: 4
USC: 2
Arizona State: 6
Arizona: 4
Washington: 0
Washington State: 1
That School Nobody Likes Cal: 3

That’s exactly 30 players in the first ten rounds from the Pac-10. Not a bad showing at all. If anything, it’s fairly exciting to see the kids grow up and get drafted and all that. Now this list can and probably will change, of course, as it gets closer to the draft and we get an idea of what teams are looking for, but this is what we’ve got for now.

For some extra draft coverage, you can get the draft order on my prospect site here – and you can also read the feature I wrote there on UCLA starter Trevor Bauer!