North Battleford’s Albers set for World Baseball Classic
Andrew Albers will never forget the day he was drafted to Major League Baseball.
Partially because he didn’t think he’d get chosen, but partially because he missed when it happened.
“I was actually on a Grade 12 trip to Ranger Lake on draft day and I didn’t find out that I had been drafted until I got home,” the graduate of John Paul II Collegiate said in a phone interview last week. “I was actually shocked when it happened… because I pretty much told most of the teams that had inquired that I had a good offer at the University of Kentucky and was planning on going to school.”
Albers turned down the enticing offer from the Milwaukee Brewers, who took him in the 12th round, and stuck with his decision to go to college.