Baseball: There’s something’s sorta fishy about the MLB draft

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Within their first 14 picks, the Florida Marlins have selected six Southland players Thursday and Friday in Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

The Marlins used their No. 1 pick, sixth overall, to take catcher Kyle Skipworth of Patriot High in Riverside.
They followed that by drafting pitcher Edgar Olmos of Birmingham High with their third pick (83rd overall), then pitcher Graham Jones of Westlake High with their sixth pick (178 overall).

Florida’s eighth pick was used on outfielder Isaac Galloway of Los Osos High (238 overall), followed by Damien second baseman Daniel Pertusati with its 13th pick (388 overall), and Bryan Evans, a right-handed pitcher from UC Davis by way of Tesoro High with pick No. 14 (418 overall).

Last year, the Marlins used their first pick to select Chatsworth third baseman Matt Dominguez, the 12th pick overall in the draft.

-- Bob Rohwer