Jonathan Lucroy

  (UL's) Jonathan Lucroy spent Monday in Milwaukee, touring Miller Park, the stadium where he hopes to one day play as a major-leaguer.

Two days earlier, on Saturday night, Lucroy said he signed a professional baseball contract including a $340,000 bonus with the Milwaukee Brewers, the team that drafted him in the third round with the 101st overall pick during Thursday's first day of Major League Baseball's amateur draft.

"They [the negotiations] were very easy," Lucroy said. "I told them that I would sign for slot money and that is what I did."

Lucroy said he decided to sign after meeting with Brewers scout Brian Sankey, who had followed him during collegiate career.

Lucroy, 20, said it was time for him to get on with the next phase of his baseball career. After starring at Umatilla High School and at the University of Louisiana, where he just finished his junior season, he said he was ready to begin his career as a pro.

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Late Monday, Lucroy was flying from Milwaukee to Phoenix, Ariz., for a week's worth of orientation and practice at the Brewers' spring training facility before heading to Helena, Mont., to play for the Brewers rookie team in the Pioneer League.

"I am very happy," he said. "College baseball was very good to me. Now it is time for me to move on and pursue professional baseball. The coaches [at Louisiana-Lafayette] are very happy for me."

Lucroy finished his junior season as one of the Ragin' Cajuns top players. His 18 home runs this season is the second-best season in school history. He leaves the school as its all-time RBIs leader with 184. He also was the team's leading hitter with a .360 batting average and had 19 doubles and 68 RBIs this season.

Meanwhile, Holt said Indians officials asked him to stay in shape when they talked briefly on Sunday.

"We are working in a positive direction," said Holt, who recently helped pitch the University of Tampa to the NCAA Division II national championship. "They just told me to try to stay in shape as much as possible and to work out."



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Nice...


Any of the 2000 cajuns still in the minors?

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SCOTT DOHMANN IS STILL BOUNCING BETWEEN THE MINORS AND MAJORS...

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&nbsp; The Helena Brewers appear to be fully stocked with talent for the upcoming season.

The 2007 roster was released Thursday afternoon and several high draft picks will begin their professional baseball career in the Capital City.

Catcher Jonathan Lucroy, second baseman Eric Farris and outfielder Caleb Gindl are all tentatively included on the Helena roster.

That trio is three of the Brewers top four draft picks and there is not much room for players up the chain in the Milwaukee system. Class A West Virginia and Brevard County, Fla. are both the best teams in their respective leagues.

“It’s an embarrassment of riches,” said Helena’s director of broadcasting and media relations Steve Wendt. “We have a jammed system and that is to our benefit because we are getting guys you are not typically seeing in rookie ball.”

Lucroy, who was picked in the third round, is a right handed hitter, hit .350 with 18 home runs for the Louisiana-Lafayette last year.

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Lucroy is going to have the same problem as Corey Coles, those farm systems are deep.

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&nbsp; Umatilla's Jonathan Lucroy was scheduled to start his career as a professional baseball player Tuesday night, but accolades for his college season at Louisiana-Lafayette continued to pour in.

Lucroy, a catcher who was a third-round selection of the Milwaukee Brewers in the Major League Baseball draft on June 7, is now a member of the Helena (Mont.) Brewers, Milwaukee's rookie-league team in the Pioneer League.

Helena began its season Tuesday night at Missoula, Mont., against the Ospreys, an affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Already chosen first-team All-Sun Belt Conference team, Lucroy also was selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association's/Rawlings Sporting Goods All-America second team, to the third team of Baseball America's All-America team, and he was selected Louisiana's top collegiate hitter by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.

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Lucroy hit .360 in 61 games for the Ragin' Cajuns during his junior season. He had 94 hits, including 19 doubles and 18 home runs.

He also had 68 RBIs for the second consecutive season and scored 56 runs.

All told, Lucroy led the Cajuns in seven different statistical categories.

He also is the school's career RBI leader with 184. He holds the single-season school record with 174 total bases. He had 31 multi-hit games this season, including a five-hit game against South Alabama. Lucroy also tied for first on the team in multiple-RBI games with 13 and had five or more RBIs in four games, the most of any player on the team.

In addition to setting a career record in RBIs, Lucroy finished in the top five in eight career categories despite playing only three seasons. He is fourth in career batting average (.356), second in hits (241), first in career doubles (54), third in career home runs (35), first in total bases (414), third in slugging percentage (.612) and fourth in sacrifice flies (16).

Lucroy was one of two players from Louisiana-Lafayette selected to the ABCA/Rawlings All-America second team. Scott Hawkins, a designated hitter for the Cajuns, also was selected to the team with a .344 average and 16 home runs.

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Jonathan has been asked by Minor League Baseball to write a weekly journal about his experiences in the Hawaii Winter Baseball league. He has to submit a new entry every Sunday and they post it here on Mondays.


Click here to see it:

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/n...milb&fext=.jsp

It will be updated each Monday.

Oh yeah, that is not a picture of Jonathan. They made a mistake. But, the rest is Jonathan.

Well, hopefully he won't have to rough it forever in that brutal Hawaiian League. :D

He had a great summer and deserves it. He was in the top 10 in batting of all 2007 drafted players.

Really?? Where'd you see that?

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I read one story where Jonathan was batting a THOUSAND, when I went to get it to post it here I couldn't find it again.

Has anyone seen where he had a perfect batting average (at one point) in Hawai?

ps SunGrasses thanks so much for the link.