2013 MLB Draft


The Coastal Plain League announced Thursday that 78 players, both former and current, were selected during the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

Chad Pinder, a former Peninsula Pilot in 2011, highlighted this year’s CPL draft class after hearing his name called in the new competitive balance round that followed round two. He went 71st overall to the Oakland Athletics, two spots before 2011 Forest City Owl Colby Suggs was drafted 73rd overall to the Miami Marlins. A total of 15 CPL players were taken in the first 10 rounds of this year’s draft, giving the CPL over 1,000 alums taken in the draft since its inception in 1997.

All of the CPL’s current 14 clubs had a player taken in the 2013 draft. The Columbia Blowfish led the way with 13 former and current players selected. Forest City was next with ten followed closely by Peninsula who saw eight Pilots get drafted. Four teams: Florence, Asheboro, Fayetteville, and High Point-Thomasville each tallied six picks apiece. Next were Morehead City, Wilmington, Wilson, and former CPL franchise, Outer Banks, who each saw five alums selected, while Martinsville had four. Gastonia followed with three, while Petersburg and Edenton rounded out the field with two a piece.

The complete list of CPL players – both former and players signed for the 2013 season – taken in this year’s draft is below:

Coastal Plain League Alumni Drafted In 2013 Major League Draft 
Round Overall Player College/University MLB Team Drafted By CPL Team(s)
CB-B 71 Chad Pinder Virginia Tech Oakland ‘11 Peninsula
CB-B 73 Colby Suggs Arkansas Miami ‘11 Forest City
3 93 Mike Mayers Ole Miss St. Louis ‘11 HP-Thomasville
5 156 Buck Farmer Georgia Tech Detroit ‘10 Peninsula
5 160 Joe Jackson The Citadel Texas ‘11 Columbia
8 247 Nate Smith Furman Los Angeles (AL) ‘12 Asheboro
9 257 Brian Holberton North Carolina Houston ‘11 Wilson
9 265 Chad Girodo Mississippi Toronto ‘11 Wilson
9 267 Jacob Zokan College of Charleston Seattle ‘10 Columbia
9 273 Nick Blount Southern Polytechnic St. Chicago (AL) ‘10 HP-Thomasville/ ‘11 Wilson
10 289 Michael Tauchman Bradley Colorado ‘12 Fayetteville
10 293 Taylor Grover USC-Aiken Boston ‘13 Forest City
10 297 Emilio Pagan Belmont Seattle ‘12 Wilmington
10 298 Justin Livengood UNC-Wilmington San Diego ‘12 Wilmington
10 314 Tyler Webb South Carolina New York (AL) ‘10 Columbia
11 318 Jacob Hankins Austin Peay Chicago (NL) ‘11 Outer Banks
11 322 CoCo Johnson Louisville Miami ‘13 HP-Thomasville
11 341 Lou Trivino Slippery Rock Oakland ‘12 Florence
12 347 Chase McDonald East Carolina Houston ‘11,‘13 Morehead City
12 357 Justin Seager UNC Charlotte Seattle ‘13 Gastonia
12 363 Tyler Shryock Cal-State Bakersville Chicago (AL) ‘13 Asheboro
12 373 Ryan Gunter Charleston Southern Atlanta ‘12 Columbia
14 412 Scott Carcaise Florida Tech Miami ‘13 Martinsville
14 431 James Lomangino St. Johns Oakland ‘13 Asheboro
14 434 Caleb Smith Sam Houston New York (AL) ‘11,‘13 Morehead City
15 462 Eugene Escalante Mount Olive San Francisco ‘12 Peninsula
16 474 Kevin McCarthy Marist Kansas City ‘12 Edenton
17 498 Kevin Freeman North Carolina AT&T Chicago (NL) ‘11 Asheboro
17 510 Ryan Gebhardt Louisiana Tech Arizona ‘12 Columbia
17 526 Geoffrey Perrott Rice Washington ‘11 Morehead City
18 533 Joe Gunkel West Chester Boston ‘11 Morehead City
18 540 Ryan Kinsella Elon Arizona ‘11 HP-Thomasville
18 542 Clint Terry Lee Milwaukee ‘12 Gastonia/ ‘13 Peninsula
18 556 Cory Bafidis Texas Wesleyan Washington ‘12 Florence
19 569 Brett McKinney Ohio St. Pittsburgh ‘10 Asheboro
19 570 Jacob Mayers Richmond Arizona ‘10 Petersburg/ ‘12 Wilmington
19 573 Adam Engel Lousiville Chicago (AL) ‘11 Florence
19 576 Austin Pritcher The Citadel Detroit ‘11 Columbia
20 590 Jason Kanzler Buffalo Minnesota ‘12 Edenton
20 595 Chaz Frank North Carolina Toronto ‘11 HP-Thomasville
20 597 Daniel Torres Saint Leo Seattle ‘12 Columbia
20 601 Corey Bass North Florida Philadelphia ‘10, ‘12 Morehead City
21 643 Tyler Brosius Walters State Atlanta ‘13 HP-Thomasville
22 654 Andrew Brockett Richmond Kansas City ‘12 Wilmington
22 674 Derek Toadvine Kent State New York (AL) ‘13 Forest City
22 675 Layne Somsen South Dakota St. Cincinnati ‘12 Fayetteville
23 691 Christopher O’Hare Fisher College Philadelphia ‘10 Outer Banks
23 693 Trey Wimmer Liberty Chicago (AL) ‘12 Forest City
23 698 Richard Teasley Saint Leo Tampa Bay ‘11, ‘12 Petersburg
23 701 Josh Miller USC-Aiken Oakland ‘11Florence/ ‘12 Columbia
25 742 Sean Townsley High Point Miami ‘11 Florence
25 750 Bud Jeter Presbyterian Arizona ‘13 Wilson
25 760 Chris Dula Catawba Texas ‘11, ‘13 Wilmington
26 767 William Chrismon East Carolina Houston ‘11 Peninsula
26 769 Matt Pierpont Winthrop Colorado ‘11 Outer Banks
26 772 Adam Westmoreland South Carolina Miami ‘10 Columbia/ ‘12 Fayetteville
27 798 Tyler Sciacca Outer Banks Chicago (NL) ‘11 Outer Banks
27 799 Daniel Palo Middle Tennessee Colorado ‘11 Florence
27 815 Jake Stone Tennessee Wesleyan St. Louis ‘10 Outer Banks/ ‘12 Martinsville
27 821 Ryan Huck Western Kentucky Oakland ‘11 Peninsula
29 880 Justin Sprenger Tennessee Wesleyan Texas ‘12 Martinsville
30 892 Eric Fisher Arkansas Miami ‘11 Forest City
30 907 Cambric Moye UNC-Greensboro Los Angeles (AL) ‘12, ‘13 Wilson
30 909 Federico Castagnini Creighton Baltimore ‘12 Columbia
31 925 Brison Celek South Carolina Toronto ‘10, ‘11 Columbia
31 930 Joel Thys Arizona Christian Arizona ‘12 Fayetteville
31 946 Willie Medina High Point Washington ‘12 Asheboro
32 968 Anthony Tzamtzis N.C. State Tampa Bay ‘10 Forest City
33 977 Tyler White Western Carolina Houston ‘10, ‘11 Gastonia
33 997 Colin O’Keefe Virginia Tech Los Angeles (AL) ‘12 Peninsula
34 1025 Nick Lomascolo Catawba College St. Louis ‘10-,‘12 Forest City
34 1034 Hector Crespo Appalachian State New York (AL) ‘11 Forest City
35 1051 Nick Ferdinand Delaware Philadelphia ‘11, ‘12 Martinsville
36 1067 J.D Osborne Wofford Houston ‘10 Forest City/ ‘12 Columbia
37 1122 Will Callaway Appalachian State San Francisco ‘11 Columbia
38 1155 Dan Grauer Elon Cincinnati ‘12, ‘13 Peninsula
40 1187 Tyler Brunnemann Hardin-Simmons Houston ‘12 Fayetteville