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...Frank Herrmann is playing both ways for the NECBL’s Berkshire Dukes, posting a 2-1 record and a 2.38 ERA while also hitting .260-4-11 in 50 at-bats…The Ivy League’s top draft pick this season, Princeton outfielder B.J. Szymanski, is hitting .295-3-12 in just 45 at-bats for the rookie-level Billings Mustangs since signing with the Cincinnati Reds earlier this month. After about five weeks of negotiating, the Reds inked their second-round selection for a $750,000 signing bonus. Szymanski celebrated the signing by buying...
Thirteen Ivy League baseball players were drafted overall on Monday and Tuesday, from as early as the second round (No. 48 overall pick B.J. Szymanski of Princeton) to as late as the 48th (No. 1,428 overall pick Brian Winings of Pennsylvania...
Princeton led the league with five players drafted—Szymanski, pitcher Ross Ohlendorf, outfielder Will Venable, infielder Steve Young and catcher Tim Lahey. All were drafted in the first 20 rounds of the 50-round event...
...Szymanski, whom Baseball America magazine dubbed the “Best Power Hitter” in the draft, as well as its “Best Five-Tool Talent,” built significant buzz in the weeks preceding the affair. Expected by experts to go in the first round, his stock slipped in recent days—aided, in part, by a 2-for-14 skid in Princeton’s NCAA Regional loss against Virginia...
Along with Venable and Szymanski, Lahey is another Princeton player whose numbers fail to correlate with his high draft status. A 20th-round selection by the Minnesota Twins, Lahey batted only .263 this season—25 points fewer than undrafted Crimson catcher Schuyler Mann—and struggled last season in the Cape Cod League. But he is 6’4, a height that Walsh said “you can’t teach,” and scouts tend to prefer tall catchers...