By Angels Web on
6/6/2011 2:42 PM
As Major League Baseball prepares for the 2011 amateur draft and young high school and collegiate baseball players from every state in the US hope for their name to be called by some organization, the Angels Amateur Baseball Academy in Tempe Arizona has been steadily introducing players each year to this draft and college recruiting process. Since 1999, there have been more than 100 former players from this program who have had their name called. In fact more than 25 of those players have had their named called two and even three times. Current Angel farmhand (Arkansas Travelers) Dillon Baird from Prescott has had the thrill of hearing his name called three times first in 2006 by the twins, then 2007 by the Nationals and eventually signed with the Angels in 2009. Ryan Cisterna (Gilbert) had a ...