Seven Tigers selected in MLB Draft
A total of seven Missouri Tigers were selected in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft held from June 9-11.
Two Tigers were taken in the first round, former starting pitchers Aaron Crow and Kyle Gibson. Crow was selected twelfth overall by the Kansas City Royals. This was the second year in a row Crow was selected in the first round. In 2008, the Washington Nationals took the Missouri righty with the ninth overall pick, but he did not sign and opted to spend the 2009 season pitching for the Fort Worth Cats.
Gibson went to the Minnesota Twins with the twenty-second pick overall. After pitching brilliantly for the Tigers this season, his draft stock was hurt by an untimely stress fracture in his pitching arm. Once projected as a top 10 pick, Gibson fell a bit, but still remained in the first round.
It was not until the ninth round that another Tiger was taken. The Seattle Mariners took catcher Trevor Coleman with the 263rd overall pick.
Then in the twenty-seventh round, the San Francisco Giants snatched Missouri third baseman Kyle Mach with the 807th pick.
In the 32nd round, the Twins went back to Columbia and took outfielder Aaron Senne. It was the second time Senne was chosen by the Twins, the first coming in 2006 when he went to them in the 16th round out of high school.
Outfielders Ryan Lollis and Greg Folgia were taken in the 37th and 40th rounds respectively, Lollis to the Giants and Folgia to the Cleveland Indians.