Hatters in Professional Baseball Highest Draft Picks 1. Brian Snyder ........26th pick 1st round, Oakland, 2003
2. Kevin Nicholson ..27th pick 1st round, San Diego, 1997
3. Sammy Serrano ...68th pick 2nd round, San Francisco, 1998
4. Lenny DiNardo .102nd pick 3rd round, New York Mets, 2001
Player .............................................. Team Lee Bagley ......................Independent Jeff Barefoot .......... Harlingeon (Ind.) Justin Bass .................................. Florida Chuck Beale ...............................Boston Rusty Beale ..........................Cincinnati *Brian Bocock ................San Francisco Doug Bolton .......... Mason City (Ind.) *Jake Boyd..............................Anaheim Dave Braden ................................. Texas Tibor Brown ................. New York (AL) Willard Brown.......................California Jeff Brueggerman .............Minnesota Darin Bruehl ...........................Houston Mike Burgermeister ...San Francisco Chris Byrnes ................. New York (AL) *Ben Carhart .................. Chicago (NL) *Lindsey Caughel .......... Los Angeles Jeff Christy .............................. Oakland Clint Chrysler ............................. Seattle Ian Church ................................St. Louis Frank Corr ..................... New York (NL) *Jeremy Cruz .........................Anaheim Jacob deGrom ............ New York (NL) Fred DeLamata ....................Baltimore *Lenny DiNardo ........... New York (NL) Ryan Dixon ...............................St. Louis *Tucker Donahue................... Toronto *Robbie Donovan .................Houston Chris Dunham ..................... Cleveland Pete Dunn ......................... Kansas City Ashby Fraser ..........................Montreal *Casey Frawley ................... Cleveland Ned French ............... Winnipeg (Ind.) Aaron Gallo ..........Minneapolis (Ind.) Javier Gomez............................Arizona Scott Gray ................................Houston Tom Hickox ........................ Milwaukee Larry Hingle ..........................California Jeff House ........................... Milwaukee Jim Howard.................. New York (NL) Aaron Iatarola ......................California Chris Ingoglia ............................ Florida *Chris Johnson ........................Houston Shane Jordan ...............San Francisco George Kauffman ........... Kansas City *Sam Kimmel .......................Baltimore *Corey Kluber ....................... San Diego
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Bob Klusacek .......................San Diego Eric Knott ...................................Arizona Roger Lincoln ...................... Cleveland Ted Loehr .........................Chicago (AL) Mike Lyons ................... New York (NL) Rick Malizia ...........................Baltimore Geoff McCallum ....................... Seattle Dave Miller ............................Baltimore Robby Morgan .......... Lafayette (Ind.) Nathan Nery .........................Baltimore Kevin Nicholson # ............... San Diego Jay Nieporte ........................San Diego Ron Pearce .............................Montreal Jeff Pequignot................... Milwaukee Jon Pequignot ................ Los Angeles Mike Pinckes ........................ Cleveland *Robbie Powell .....................Anaheim Braedyn Pruitt ............. New York (AL) Brian Pruitt .......................Washington Nick Pugliese .........................Anaheim Pete Rasmusen .............Independent *Nick Rickles ........................... Oakland Craig Risdon ..............................Atlanta Vince Riva ........................Chicago (AL) Wade Rowdon .................Chicago (AL) Chris Sawyer ....... Thunder Bay (Ind.) Sammy Serrano ...........San Francisco Jeff Smith.............................Minnesota Brian Snyder # ........................ Oakland Bill Swaggerty ....................... Baltimore Roy Tanner ........................ Kansas City Rebel Taylor ................. New York (AL) Chris Thomas..................... Milwaukee George Tsamis .....................Minnesota Mike Ullian ..............................Houston Ross Urshan ............Lethbridge (Ind.) Jim Waring ..............................Houston Kevin Wasilewski ...................Houston Wes Weger ......................... Milwaukee Chris Westervelt ............. Los Angeles Mike Wiley ..............................Colorado Dan Williams...................Chicago (AL) Andy Wilson................. New York (NL) Steve Woide ............................. Toronto Jesse Wright............................ Oakland Ernie Yaroshuk ............ New York (AL) * active; # - first round draft pick; Italics - reached majors
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5. Corey Kluber..... 134th pick 4th round, San Diego Padres, 2007
After playing in Houston and Arizona in 2012, Chris Johnson will be a Brave in 2013.
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Corey Kluber earned his first MLB victory, a 3-2 win over Detroit, in 2012.
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