June 6, 2008
A total of six Mizzou players have been selected in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft, which took place on Thursday and Friday. That brings the total of 148 players drafted out of Missouri.
Junior Aaron Crow became the highest draft pick in Mizzou history when he was taken by the Washington Nationals with the ninth overall pick on Thursday. Crow is the second Tiger ever to be taken in the first round.
Joining Crow as 2008 draftees are junior Rick Zagone, senior Jacob Priday, junior Ryan Lollis, senior Kurt Calvert and senior Lee Fischer.
Zagone was selected in the sixth round by Baltimore with the 176th overall pick. He won 15 games for the Tigers over the past three years, striking out 181 batters in 241 innings pitched.
Priday was the 11th-round pick of Houston, going as the 332nd overall selection. Priday ended his four-year career at Missouri as the school record holder in home runs (49), RBI (240) and extra base hits (112).
Detroit selected Lollis in the 20th round with the 613th overall pick. It was the second time the Lollis has been selected in the draft. In 2005, Lollis was drafted out of high school by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 20th round.
Calvert was selected in the 32nd round by the Chicago Cubs with the 971st pick in the draft. Calvert hit .302 this season, starting 42 games for the Tigers in his senior campaign.
The Chicago White Sox took Fischer in the 46th round with the 1,377 pick. He played in 37 games for Missouri in 2008, starting 25 times. He had five doubles and a triple on the year.
Fourty-six players have been drafted out of Missouri since 1996, Tim Jamieson's first year as the Tigers' head coach.
