LHP Austin Wright from Conant will be playing for the west team this year. Way to go Austin! Is this the first Illinois player to make the AFLAC game in its history?
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Congrats austin, kind of interesting however when you go to there website and read about the selection process.
Lineshot - I read the selection process info. How is it interesting?
3 sons I sent you a pm.
Does anyone know when this will be on TV? I love to watch it and missed it last year.
It's telecast live on Fox Sports Network this Saturday, noon Pacific, 3 Eastern, etc.
FYI, AFLAC relies on Perfect Game for the selections. It's almost entirely based on PG rankings, adjusted for positions. Some are chosen in advance before the spring HS season begins. Others are chosen after PG National.
You can read up on how PG gathers info at its showcases and from other scouting reports and opportunities. I guess anybody can criticize anything, but you have to have some sort of process somehow if you're going to do the event at all.
FYI, AFLAC relies on Perfect Game for the selections. It's almost entirely based on PG rankings, adjusted for positions. Some are chosen in advance before the spring HS season begins. Others are chosen after PG National.
You can read up on how PG gathers info at its showcases and from other scouting reports and opportunities. I guess anybody can criticize anything, but you have to have some sort of process somehow if you're going to do the event at all.
The selection process has produced 42 first round picks in four years. About half of all the players have been selected in the first 5 rounds the following year and many others are current college all americans.
Last year the selection process picked 13 players who went in the first round this past June. That's more than one out of every three Aflac All Americans. Can you imagine a high school game with 13 first rounders and 5 second rounders in it? That would have been the last Aflac All American game!
Also, most of these players have to be selected before their junior high school season is finished
People can question the process if they wish, but they can't question the results! Or at least, they shouldn't, unless they expect perfection!
Last year the selection process picked 13 players who went in the first round this past June. That's more than one out of every three Aflac All Americans. Can you imagine a high school game with 13 first rounders and 5 second rounders in it? That would have been the last Aflac All American game!
Also, most of these players have to be selected before their junior high school season is finished
People can question the process if they wish, but they can't question the results! Or at least, they shouldn't, unless they expect perfection!
Austin showed well, pitched the 8th, topped out at 91 showed a second pitch (curveball) for a strike, 3k's 1ER, 1H(3B), 2BB's. Good Work.
Congratulations to Bergen Beach Player Austin Wright (AFLAC All-American) on a fine performance .
Austin was a key member of the Bergen Beach Team that just defeated Top Tier at the 2007 CABA HS World Series. way to go Austin!
Austin was a key member of the Bergen Beach Team that just defeated Top Tier at the 2007 CABA HS World Series. way to go Austin!
It was good work
I am shocked to hear it was only 91. In person it looked much faster. He was flat out blowing his fastball by guys. Had he spotted his pitches a bit better no one would've touched him. Looked to me like a future MLB closer type.
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Mike Bowden played in it a yr ago or two. He hit there though.. I think he was shut down from a long HS season .. He may be the second ..
Mike Bowden played in it a yr ago or two. He hit there though.. I think he was shut down from a long HS season .. He may be the second ..
Thanks for reminding me Sparky. I completely forgot that Bowden played in the AFLAC game. Now that I think of it I do remember him hitting like you said. It is too bad he didn't get to pitch! Those high school seasons do tend to be taxing on a pitcher's arm, don't they? I am a little bias and may feel that way because I prefer travel ball.
Joe Dunnigan was the first IL player to make the AFLAC game (in 2003 the first year)
Austin Wright was the second.
Bowden was not a part of the AFLAC thing.
Austin Wright was the second.
Bowden was not a part of the AFLAC thing.
Wow now I'm confused! 