Rounds 3-10 of the 2024 MLB Draft took place Monday afternoon and it was a stellar showing for Yarmouth-Dennis alumni as 15 former Red Sox heard their names called.
Outfielder Casey Cook (North Carolina) was taken 103rd overall as the final pick of the third round to the Texas Rangers after playing 31 games with Y-D in 2023. Cook hit .341 with 18 home runs and 78 RBI as the First Team All-ACC selection helped guide the Tar Heels to the College World Series.
Five picks later saw another Y-D alum selected as left-hander Jackson Kent (Arizona) was nabbed by the Washington Nationals 109th overall in the fourth round. Kent posted a 2.52 ERA with 27 strikeouts during his tenure with the Red Sox in 2023.
Outfielder Nick Mitchell (Indiana) had a .412 on-base percentage with Y-D in 2023 after a dominant tenure at Western Illinois. Mitchell played for the Hoosiers for his final season of college baseball and was taken in the fourth round by the Toronto Blue Jays.
6-foot-5, 225-pound outfielder Jakob Christian (San Diego) played 19 games with Y-D in 2023 as the former Division II All-American at Point Loma Nazarene hit 26 home runs with a 1.288 OPS in his lone year at San Diego. Christian was selected 149th overall in the fifth round to the San Francisco Giants.
Catcher Ryan Stafford (Cal Poly) followed up his .312 summer with Y-D last year with a .368 average in his third season at Cal Poly. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound backstop was the third former Red Sox to be taken in the fifth round as the Baltimore Orioles took Stafford 160th overall.
Woody Hadeen (UC Irvine) had a short four-game tenure with Y-D in 2022, but he showed scouts his keen ability to get on base with a .412 mark. The First Team All-Big West shortstop hit .358 with a .524 on-base percentage and was taken by the Detroit Tigers in the sixth round.
Blake Aita (Kennesaw State) made back-to-back Y-D alums drafted as the right-hander was taken by the Boston Red Sox in the sixth round. Aita tallied a 3.32 ERA in 19 innings with Y-D and joins Braden Montgomery as the other Y-D alum taken by the Red Sox in this year’s draft.
The Colorado Rockies utilized their eighth round selection on 2022 Y-D alum Luke Jewett (UCLA). The right-hander worked a 2.37 ERA with 24 strikeouts in 19 innings with Y-D and had 72 strikeouts with the Bruins this spring.
6-foot-6 outfielder Jacob Jenkins-Cowart (East Carolina) had 79 RBI with the Pirates and was selected in the eighth round by the Miami Marlins. Jenkins-Cowart played 12 games with Y-D in 2023 and had a dominant tenure with East Carolina.
Cade McGee (Texas Tech) became the first 2024 player off the board in the ninth round to the St. Louis Cardinals. McGee was the everyday third baseman for head coach Scott Pickler and had a .353 on-base percentage with the Red Sox after posting a 1.030 OPS with the Red Raiders.
Infielder Dub Gleed (UC Irvine) joined Jenkins-Cowart as the second Y-D player to be selected by the Marlins as Gleed was taken in the ninth round. Gleed played 31 games with Y-D in 2023 and hit .351 with UC Irvine.
The Minnesota Twins bolstered their pitching corps with 6-foot-6 right-hander Jason Doktorczyk (Nevada) in the ninth round. Doktorczyk registered a 3.45 ERA in 28 ⅔ innings with Y-D in 2023 and posted 91 strikeouts with Nevada in 2024.
Right-hander Owen Hackman (Loyola Marymount) became the fourth Y-D player selected in the ninth round after hearing his name called by the Atlanta Braves. Hackman recorded a 2.35 ERA with Y-D in 2022 and totaled 125 strikeouts over the last two years with Loyola Marymount.
2022 alum and San Diego Padres draft choice Jack Costello (San Diego) was the first of three Y-D players taken in the 10th round. 2023 shortstop Brady Day (Kansas State) was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies and 2024 right-hander Ramsey David (Southeastern) was taken by the Houston Astros to round out the Day 2 draft picks for Y-D.
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