Oklahoma State University Athletics
Five Cowboys Selected On First Day Of MLB Draft
June 08, 2006 | Cowboy Baseball
Ford, a switch-hitting infielder, was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third round with the 80th overall pick. A transfer from TCU, Ford hit .319 with 12 home runs and 60 RBIs in 58 games in 2006, and the junior was a second-team All-Big 12 Conference selection.
The next Cowboys to hear their names called in the draft were a pair of southpaw pitchers. Brae Wright was taken by the Milwaukee Brewers with the 182nd overall pick in the sixth round, while Charles Benoit was a 10th round choice (290th overall) of Pittsburgh.
Wright was 8-4 with a 3.99 ERA in his senior season with the Cowboys and earned second-team all-conference honors. In 14 starts, Wright hurled four complete games and tossed two shutouts. Wright, who spent his first two seasons at Ole Miss, finished his collegiate career with a 22-10 mark.
A sophomore for the Cowboys in 2006, Benoit finished his first season at OSU with a 5-4 record and 4.56 ERA in 13 appearances. He ranked third on the club with 45 strikeouts in 51.1 innings.
The Cowboys also had a pair of players picked in the 18th round on Tuesday, as Deik Scram went with the 532nd pick to the Detroit Tigers and Adam Carr No. 541 to the Washington Nationals.
Scram, a junior who played mostly at designated hitter for the Cowboys this season, hit .363 with six homers, 35 RBIs and a team-high seven triples and was a second-team All-Big 12 selection.
Carr was an All-American as a junior last season after leading the Big 12 with 22 homers and 86 RBIs. As a senior, he hit .290 with 12 home runs and 42 RBIs and was named to the All-Regional Tournament team in the Fayetteville Regional.
OSU also had a trio of high school signees chosen during the draft's first 18 rounds. Left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson, Cowboy head coach Frank Anderson's son, was taken by the Arizona Diamondbacks with the 55th overall pick in the second round; Austin McClune, a center fielder from Edmond Santa Fe, was a seventh-round pick (200th overall) by Pittsburgh; and Owasso pitcher Chris Armstrong went in the 14th round (432nd overall) to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The 2005 MLB Draft concludes Wednesday with the final 32 rounds.
