EBF News: First-Year Player Draft
For the newcomer to professional baseball, today's amateur draft is a rite of passage. Every young player in the country is filtered through the draft pool, assessed, reassessed, scrutinized and run through several mock drafts even before they get to the real thing. But on draft day, once you've been picked, you have a shot to do what so few men in history have done, become a European Baseball Federation ballplayer. <Stuttgart:team#382>, <London:team#377>, <Rotterdam:team#384>, <Manchester:team#379> and <Verona:team#378> will have the first five picks. The top ten players, as rated by BNN, are:


1. <Leonardo Gaddi:player#3223>, 21 year-old right fielder out of college.
2. <Chris Endicott:player#3145>, 22 year-old second baseman out of college.
3. <Amadeo Sighel:player#3201>, 18 year-old third baseman out of high-school.
4. <Patrizio Venturini:player#3210>, 22 year-old center fielder out of college.
5. <Vic Liddicoat:player#3220>, 22 year-old second baseman out of college.
6. <Lars Husmann:player#3186>, 18 year-old third baseman out of high-school.
7. <Pim Tas:player#3204>, 21 year-old center fielder out of college.
8. <Tonny Burgemeester:player#3167>, 22 year-old catcher out of college.
9. <Bonifazio Palladio:player#3224>, 18 year-old starting pitcher out of high-school.
10. <Bjorn Mirka:player#3228>, 20 year-old second baseman out of college.