Wednesday, June 10, 2009

COLEMAN PICKED IN 5TH ROUND BY THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS




BATON ROUGE -- LSU senior righthander Louis Coleman and junior infielder/outfielder Ryan Schimpf were both selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Wednesday, joining Jared Mitchell (1st Rd., 23rd overall) from yesterday's first three rounds. Follow LSU's players in rounds 4-50 of the draft throughout the day.

Coleman was taken by the Kansas City Royals in the fifth round (152nd overall), while Schimpf was eight picks later by the Toronto Blue Jays on day 2 of the draft.

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