North Carolina State University Athletics
Yankees Take Brackman in First Round of MLB Draft
6/7/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
NC State right-hand pitcher Andrew Brackman was selected as the final pick of the first round of Thursday’s Major League Baseball first-year player draft. The New York Yankees took him with the No. 30 overall pick of baseball’s annual selection process.
Brackman, 6-4 with a 3.81 earned run average in his junior season, is the second NC State pitcher taken in the first round in the last three years. The Atlanta Braves took Joey Devine with the 26th overall pick in the 2005 draft.
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In his three years, Brackman compiled an 11-7 record with a 3.80 ERA and 149 strikeouts in 149.1 innings.
He joins Devine (2005), Corey Lee (1996), Greg Briley (1986), Dan Plesac (1983) and Ron Evans (1975) as the only first-round baseball picks in NC State history.
