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...Obviously, everybody hopes to go higher,” Wilson said. “But they took me in the 28th, and maybe I deserved to go there. I think it’s going to work out just fine, so I’m not too worried about where I got picked, but I was just starting to worry that I wasn’t going...
...Wilson, in his first year of draft eligibility, is coming off what he called a “relatively poor” junior season in which he hit .331 but managed only three home runs and a mere 17 RBI. Opposing pitchers were careful with him as the squad’s lone bona fide slugger and he earned a team-leading 20 walks. His 12 extra-base hits and .484 slugging percentage were career lows. That may have led to Wilson, who admitted getting nervous as the draft wore on, lingering on the board longer than expected...
...Wilson was in the midst of practice with his Cape Cod Baseball League team when he received the news. It was on Cape Cod where Wilson vaulted onto scouts’ radars with a standout 2006 summer in the wood-bat league, regarded as one of the nation’s premier proving grounds for collegiate talent...
...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...
...honest, I didn’t really think about what they had done and what they had decided, because for everybody it’s an individual choice,” Wilson said. “I knew that completing school was possible, even though it’s going to be a semester late, and I liked that they had tested the waters on that because there’s no way I would walk away from finishing up my degree...