PerfectGame.org has ranked three UK players among the SEC players expected to go in the 2011 and 2012 MLB drafts. RHP [URL=”http://www.wildcatrecruits.com/playerProfile.php?Contact_ID=229″]Alex Meyer[/URL] is ranked #3 from the SEC in the 2011 draft. Meyer is a Junior and has been named to the Preseason First-Team All-SEC. He is also one of the three UK players listed by CollegeBaseballDaily.com on whose shoulders the season rests, and the #6 player among all Kentucky Collegians by BlugrassBaseball.com.
[URL=”http://www.wildcatrecruits.com/playerProfile.php?Contact_ID=224″]Braden Kapteyn[/URL] (INF, RHP) is predicted to go #17 from the SEC in the 2011 draft. Kapteyn was listed as a potential breakout performer by PerfectGame.org, and the #13 player among Kentucky Collegians by BlugrassBaseball.com.
LHP [URL=”http://www.wildcatrecruits.com/playerProfile.php?Contact_ID=328″]Taylor Rogers[/URL] is ranked #8 among SEC players expected to go in the 2012 draft. Rogers is one of seven Kentuckians playing in the Cape Cod league this summer. He is also one of the three UK players listed by CollegeBaseballDaily.com on whose shoulders the season rests.
Kentucky’s bullpen stocked with both LHP and RHP is expected to cause problems for opposing teams this year. Coach Henderson said, “We’re going to have good starting pitching. How good, I don’t know, but we’ve got three returning starters…They’re all bigger, stronger, more accomplished…They’re better and it’s pretty obvious.” ([URL=”http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2011/02/10/kentuckys-season-depends-on-three-players/”]source[/URL])
