This weekend, March 5-7, Minute Maid Park hosts its annual college baseball classic. According to Baseball America seven of the top 100 draft-eligible college players in the country will be aiming for the Crawford Boxes this weekend.
Texas
#16 (rated according to BA), RHP, Brandon Workman
#31, C, Cameron Rupp
#85, RHP, Cole Green
#93, OF, Kevin Keyes
Rice
#10, SS, Rick Hague
Texas Tech
#14, RHP, Chad Bettis (Bettis was drafted and unsigned by Houston in 2007.)
Missouri
#40, RHP, Nick Tepesch
In the nine-year history of the Minute Maid Park Classic, three participants have gone on to play for the Houston Astros:
Phillip Barzilla, LHP, Rice (2001)
Michael Bourn, CF, Houston (2001-03)
Mark Saccomanno, 1B, Baylor (2003)
Thanks to Stephen Grande in the Astros Media Relations Department for his help with this piece of trivia.
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