MILWAUKEE (AP) – The Milwaukee Brewers have signed 10 of their 50 draft picks, but they are still waiting for Maine high school star Mark Rogers’ autograph on a contract.
The team’s first-two draft picks – right-hander Rogers from Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham and right-hander Yovani Gallardo from Trimble Tech High School in Fort Worth, Texas – have yet to sign.
In Maine, Rogers, the Gatorade national Player of the Year, will lead his high school team to the state Class A state championship game on Monday night. The game was postponed from Saturday and moved to Hadlock Field in Portland, where the Eastern League AA Portland Sea Dogs play.
The game was moved from Gorham High School to accommodate a large crowd that’s expected to turn out. Mt. Ararat will play defending state champs from Deering High School of Portland.
Heading the list announced Saturday of signed players are the team’s third, fourth, and fifth-round selections.
Right-hander Josh Wahpepah, the Brewers’ third-round pick out of Cowley Community College (Kansas), and Josh Baker, the team’s fourth-round selection out of Rice University (Texas), will be sent to Milwaukee’s Pioneer League team in Helena, Montana.
Fifth-rounder Angel Salome, a catcher from Georgia Washington High School in New York City, will be sent to Milwaukee’s Arizona rookie team.
Also signing for the Brewers were: eighth-rounder Brandon Parillo, a left-handed pitcher; 10th-rounder Steven Sollmann, a second baseman; 13th-rounder Angel Ayala and 14th-rounder Grant Richardson, both first basemen; 23rd-rounder Tony Festa, a third basemen; and 32nd-rounder Joel Needham and 33rd-rounder Luis Bernal, both right-handed pitchers.
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