@MizzouBaseball’s Misner & Sikkema Selected in First Round of 2019 MLB Draft
6/3/2019 11:45:00 PM | Baseball
Tiger duo each picked in the Competitive Balance Round A
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball junior OF Kameron Misner and junior LHP TJ Sikkema were each selected Monday evening in Day One of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft.
Misner was chosen 35th overall by the Miami Marlins, while Sikkema was scooped up 38th overall by the New York Yankees. Both Tigers were a part of the Competitive Balance Round A, which occurred after the traditional First Round and Compensation Round.
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Junior OF @KameronMisner97 becomes only the second position player in Tiger HISTORY to be selected in the 1st Round ??
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ANOTHER 1st Rounder for the Tigers! Junior LHP @TJSikkema17 is going to look SHARP in those pinstripes ??
Congrats, TJ!#MIZ #ShowMe #C2E ???? pic.twitter.com/m9u4EvB6Al
Misner and Sikkema become Mizzou's eighth and ninth all-time first round selections. Misner is only the Tigers' second-ever position player to garner first round accolades, joining C Steve Patchin in 1971. Sikkema is the first Tiger hurler to be selected in the first round since RHP Tanner Houck did so in 2017.
Sikkema continues Mizzou's recent trend as one of the nation's top producers of first round pitchers. The Dewitt, Iowa, native joins RHP Aaron Crow (ninth overall – 2008), RHP Max Scherzer (11th overall – 2006), RHP Kyle Gibson (22nd overall – 2009) and Houck (24th overall – 2017) as first round arms the past 14 years.
Additionally, Misner and Sikkema become the Tigers' first-ever duo of straight-from-college players among the first two rounds in the same MLB Draft.
Under head coach Steve Bieser, 13 Tigers have now been selected in the annual MLB Draft over his three-year tenure (2017-present). Historically, Mizzou has now secured at least one player selected in the MLB Draft in each of the past 24 years (1996-present).
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