Mack Draft Report - Garrett Wittels, T.J. Renda, Chase Sparkman, WWBA, Myles Richard, and Luke Maile

The Mack Draft Report – 10-20-10:



The College Baseball Blog  continues it’s annual ranking of the top 100 college players in the next draft, and featured Florida International infielder Garrett Wittels as the 87th ranked player. Wittels is more known recently as the keeper of a 56-game hitting streak, the longest in the country and the second longest in Division I baseball history behind Robin Ventura, who hit safely in 58 games in 1987 at Oklahoma State. I’m sure they’ll be plenty of press on this kid during his first three games this season for FIU.
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The team “Chet Lemon’s Juice” beat “Bullets Baseball”, 1-0, in the First Annual George M. Steinbrenner Classic, held October 17th, hosted by the New York Yankees. Pitchers T.J. Renda, Devin Smith, and 2012 prospect Trey Oest combined for the 10-inning shutout. This was an all-pitcher game with basically no big hitter. In fact, the winning run came in on a sacrifice fly. Bullets starter, Chase Sparkman, tossed seven shutout innings.

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The 2010 WWBA World Championship will take place October 21-25, at the Roger Dean Complex, in Jupiter, Florida. 85 of the top top 100 teams in the United States and Puerto Rico will participate over the five day tournament.



Everything begins at 3:30pm today, with Jose Fernandez, Ryan Kramer, Dylan Davis, Blake Smith, Ryan Meyer, and John Magliozzi all scheduled to pitch for their respective teams.



Things really start to heat up on Friday with pitchers Ryan Gallagher, Alex Miller, Lance McCullers, Nick Burdi, Daniel Camerena, Hudson Boyd, and Henry Owens all expected to see some action.



We’ll keep you up to date here throughout the tournament to the highlights.

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Prospect Wire’s Fall Wood Ball Classic will take place October 29-31, in Auburndale, Florida. This is a 18U/Underclassman tournament and registration is still open. Go to: link  for details.
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The Arizona Senior Fall Classic finished up this past weekend, and the following are the top results of the SPRAQ testing:


Top Overall Scores:


RHP Myles Richard - 85.40

OF Rashad Harlin - 85.35

LHP Porter Clayton - 81.50

C Adam Manzer - 81.10

OF Grant Mocabe - 80.52


SPRAQ testing consists of combining the results from a 30-yard dash, a vertical jump, a test involving the throwing of a Power Ball across the chest for maximum distance, and a lateral movement test to measure the agility of the athlete.

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Over 30 MLB scouts attended the University of Kentucky intrasquad scrimmage this past Tuesday at Cliff Hagan Stadium.



Two pitches both tossed two scorless innings in relief. Junior RHP Branden Kapteyn struck out three in his two innings and was awarded the win. Fellow junior Nick Kennedy allowed only one hit, striking out two in his outing.
 Sophomore catcher Luke Maile was the hitting star with a solo home run. This the same Maile that was named the 2009 Kentucky High School Mr. Baseball. He was drafted in the 43rd round of the 2009 draft by the Boston Red Sox, but decided to go to Kentucky instead.