Which professional baseball team has selected Mychal Givens?
The Wake-Up Call greets you each weekday with news, views and a few Tampa Bay area sports offerings to anticipate for the day and night. We encourage suggestions and contributions. Good morning! Mychal Givens, the all-everything baseball player from Plant High School, throws hard. On that point, there is a consensus. But will he throw from the mound? Or from deep in the hole at shortstop? Even though Givens has more clarity about his future – the Baltimore Orioles selected him in the second round (54th overall pick) on Tuesday night, a likely financial level that could sway him from his Oklahoma State University scholarship – there’s still considerable intrigue about his ultimate destination. During baseball’s first-year draft, Givens was announced as a right-handed pitcher. Later, during a summary of the Orioles’ first-day picks, Givens was described as a shortstop in the team’s news release. Which will it be? “He’s going to have a bat and there’s power there,” Orioles director of am
Mychal Givens had a strong feeling that by the end of Tuesday the Baltimore Orioles would change his life. There was good reason. Baltimore was the one team Givens met with Tuesday morning, and Givens said the organization made clear its intentions to select him in the second round if he was available. Sure enough, when it came time for the Orioles to make their second-round pick later that night in the 2009 Major League Baseball first-year player draft, the big-league club used it to select the Plant High standout with the 54th overall pick. “It’s a relief,” said Givens, who was drafted as a right-handed pitcher. “The only thing I wanted was to get this over with and just be able to go out there and do my thing.” Sources: http://www2.tbo.
