ScoringLive staff
June 5, 2019, 9:09pm
Six players with ties to Hawaii were picked on the final day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft Wednesday.
» Dylan Thomas, University of Hawaii, RHP, 13th round (389th overall) by the Minnesota Twins
» Edgar Barclay, Cal State-Bakersfield, LHP, 15th round (465) by the New York Yankees. He is the first St. Joseph alumnus (2016) to be drafted.
» Codie Paiva, Loyola Marymount, RHP, 22nd round (651) by the Miami Marlins. The 2015 Kamehameha graduate was an All-Hawaii first-team pick as a third baseman that year.
» Trayson Kubo, Stephen F. Austin, RHP, 24th round (734) by the Oakland Athletics. The 2015 Leilehua alumnus was a second-team All-Hawaii pitcher that season. He is the first Leilehua alumnus picked since Scott Loucks in 1977 (Loucks attended, but did not graduate from Leilehua).
» Micah Yonamine, Iolani '19, 29th round (870) by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Illinois State commit batted .500 and led the state with 34 RBIs. A day earlier, his classmate, Shane Sasaki, was a third-round pick by Tampa Bay. This marks the sixth time high school classmates were taken in the same draft of the year of their graduation.
» Anthony "Bubba" Hoopii-Tuionetoa, Pierce JC (Washington), RHP, 30th round (895) by the Texas Rangers. The 2018 Baldwin graduate, ScoringLive's All-Hawaii Player of the Year in 2018, was taken in the 16th round last year by Minnesota.
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Sasaki and Yonamine join these prep classmates who were taken in the same draft (Does not include high school classmates who were drafted later as collegians):
2011 - Pitcher Robert Kahana and catcher Pookela Kaalekahi of Campbell.
2009 - Third baseman Bryson Namba and catcher Carlton Tanabe of Pearl City.
2001 - Shortstop Bronson Sardinha and pitcher Hubert Pruett of Kamehameha-Kapalama.
1999 - Infielders Jandin Thornton-Murray and Chad Santos of Saint Louis.
1997 - Pitcher Justin Wayne and first baseman Scooter Martines of Punahou.
1996 - Outfielder Makani Lum and third baseman Billy Pieper of Kamehameha-Kapalama.