Nov. 4, 2008
WACO, Texas - Five Baylor baseball student-athletes were listed on Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects ranking for the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The list is specific to college players and focuses only on players who will be eligible to be drafted next June. Baylor had more players on the list than any other school.
Junior right-handed pitcher Kendal Volz was ranked as the nation's sixth-best prospect, while redshirt sophomore right-handers Shawn Tolleson and Craig Fritsch were 22nd and 37th, respectively. Junior right fielder Aaron Miller was the 62nd-rated prospect, and junior first baseman Dustin Dickerson was 71st.
Only two schools - Baylor (5) and Georgia (4) - had more than three players on the list. Ten schools had three players listed, including Missouri, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M from the Big 12 Conference.
In all, 16 players from Baylor's roster will be eligible in the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The program record for most players drafted in one year is nine (2005).
Baylor opens its 2009 season Feb. 20-22, hosting Pacific for a three-game series at Baylor Ballpark.
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