Kentuckians in Minor League Baseball

Alex Meyer pitches for Hagerstown early in the 2012 season. (Photo by Jon Hale)

The link over each player’s name will take you to his minorleaguebaseball.com page.  Players are listed by the school they were drafted out of. Only players listed in the “Kentucky High School Alumni” section were drafted out of high school in Kentucky, though several in the “Kentucky natives” section attended Kentucky high schools but were drafted after attending an out-of-state college. If you have any information about a Kentucky player not on the list send me an email at jon@kyforward.com. For the first half of the season players without a full-season assignment are listed with their organization.

UK Alumni

• Alex Meyer — AA New Britain
• Alex Phillips — Tigers
• Andrew Albers — AAA Rochester
• Andy Burns — High A Dunedin
• Braden Kapteyn — Low A Greenville
• Brian Adams — Low A Fort Wayne
• Cameron Flynn — Low A Greensboro
• Chad Wright — High A Lakeland
• Chris Bisson — AA San Antonio (DL)
• Chris Rusin — AAA Iowa
• Collin Cowgill — AAA Las Vegas
• James Paxton — AAA Tacoma
• Keenan Wiley — Braves
• Lance Ray — High A Fort Myers (DL)
• Logan Darnell — AA New Britain
• Luke Maile — Low A Bowling Green
• Taylor Rogers — High A Fort Myers
• Tim Peterson — Low A Savannah

UofL Alumni

• Adam Duvall — AA Richmond (DL)
• B. J. Rosenberg — AAA Lehigh Valley
• Chris Dominguez — AAA Fresno
• Dean Kiekhefer — High A Palm Beach
• Derek Self — High A Potomac
• Jeff Arnold — High A San Jose
• Justin Amlung — Low A Kane County
• Justin Marks — AAA Omaha
• Matt Koch — Low A Savannah
• Neil Holland — AA Harrisburg
• Ryan Wright — High A Bakersfield
• Thomas Royse — White Sox
• Tony Zych — AA Tennessee
• Trystan Magnuson — Free Agent
• Zach Jackson — Texas A&M — Royals

WKU Alumni

• Craig Stem — High A Ranch Cucamonga
• Kes Carter — High A Charlotte
• Matt Rice — Rays
• Matt Ridings — AA Northwest Arkansas
• Phil Wetherell — Low A Charleston
• Terrence Dayleg — High A Jupiter (DL)
• Wade Gaynor — AA Erie

Other College Alumni

• Chris Curley — Campbellsville — High A Winston-Salem
• Chris Fern — Union College — Giants
• Christian Friedrich — EKU — AAA Colorado Springs (DL)
• Cory Wade — Ky Wesleyan — Free agent
• Jarrett Casey — NKU — High A Winston-Salem
• Jayson Langfels — EKU — AA Tulsa
• Patrick Brady — Bellarmine — AA Jackson
• Richie Rodriguez — EKU — Mets
• Taylor Davis — Morehead — High A Daytona (DL)

Players drafted out of Kentucky high schools

• Jackson Laumann — Boone County — Braves
• Mark Biggs — Warren East — Blue Jays
• Matt Spalding — St. X — Red Sox
• Nate Adcock — North Hardin — AAA Omaha
• Nick Maronde — Lexington Catholic — AA Arkansas
• Will Hurt — Lexington Catholic — Twins

Kentuckians drafted out of out-of-state schools

• Aaron Cook — Born in Ft. Campbell — AAA Colorado Springs (DL)
• Blake Perry — Boyle County — Low A South Bend
• Chad Martin — Paul Laurence Dunbar — Cubs
• Daniel Webb — Heath — AA Birmingham
• Jack Snodgrass — Bowling Green — AA Richmond (DL)
• Jeremy Dobbs — Daviess County — Low A Clinton
• Jonathan Roof — St. Mary’s — High A Clearwater (DL)
• Keith Butler — Butler County — AA Springfield
• Michael Mosby — Hancock County — Orioles (DL)
• Patrick Cooper — Danville — AA Erie
• Shawn Roof — St. Mary’s — Orioles (DL)
• Stephen Shackleford — Trinity — High A High Desert
• Tyler Blandford — Daviess County — Free agent
• Tyler Kuhn — Trinity — AAA Reno
• Wes Wilson — Bryan Station — Low A Charleston
• Zach Isler — Covington Catholic — Low A Kannapolis
• Zach Osborne — PRP — High A Modesto
• Zack Cox — PRP — AA Jacksonville (DL)