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...Crimson, John was selected by the White Sox in the 47th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft following a junior season in which he went 1-for-9. Meanwhile, Zachary U. Farkes, the all-time Harvard home run leader, and Frank J. Herrmann, the ace of the pitching staff, both members of the Class of 2006, went undrafted that spring and were forced to sign free-agent contracts...
Wilson continues in a line of recent Harvard non-seniors confronted with the option of departing school early to test their fortunes in the bushes. John Wolff and Frank Herrmann, a late-round pick and a free-agent pickup, respectively, both left Cambridge after their junior campaigns in 2005. Zak Farkes elected to return to campus in 2004 to improve his standing after being taken by his hometown Boston Red Sox in the 39th round following a 14-homer sophomore season. But Farkes was not picked again the next summer and inked a free-agent deal with...
...There is little precedent for Harvard athletes who willingly jettisoned their degrees for the pros, as tennis star James Blake did in 1999. Recent baseball players Zak Farkes, Frank Herrmann, and John Wolff, all of the Class of ’06, signed minor-league contracts and left a semester short of graduation, but all three were on pace to earn their degrees in January...
Editor’s note: Last spring, Frank Herrmann, a pitching prospect in the Cleveland Indians organization and former Harvard right-handed starter, wrote a weekly column for The Crimson. This is his 2006 fall debut.An old adage says, “It ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught.” Well, Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers got caught and it was on baseball’s biggest stage. The latest scandal surrounding America’s pasttime emerged during the second game of the World Series on Sunday night when Rogers...
...were fine before...[but] I picked up off-speed pitches a lot faster.” The more striking development, however, might still have been on the mound. By eating innings on Sundays, Brunnig rounded out a pitching staff many expected to falter thanks to the departures of Frank Herrmann (to the Cleveland Indians) and Mike Morgalis (graduation). On one memorable day, he and classmate Javy Castellanos—who turned in a career season in his own right—teamed up to shut down Columbia in a doubleheader, each garnering a win. Castellanos allowed two earned over...