USA – The Vanderbilt baseball team signed 10 high school recruits to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period, as reported by VandySports.com.

Coach Tim Corbin has signed many players who excel at several positions, and only time will tell where they will see playing time at Vanderbilt.

The team will welcome two pitchers from Illinois in lefty Nathan Dorris and righty Jack DeAno, along with lefthanders Keenan Kolinsky out of Knoxville and Samuel Selman from Texas. Kolinsky is also a very capable first-baseman and outfielder.

Two players with strong baseball bloodlines will be joining the outfield in Andover’s Michael Yastrzemski and Regan Flaherty.

Yastrzemski is the grandson of Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, who starred for the Boston Red Sox for 23 years and was baseball’s last winner of the Triple Crown, an award given for leading the league in home runs, runs batted in and batting average in the same year.

Flaherty is the younger brother of former Commodore Ryan Flaherty, who was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the Supplemental First Round in the 2008 Amateur Baseball Draft. Both of these players are also capable of pitching or playing first base if necessary. Houston’s Conner Harrell will also be joining them in the outfield.

In the infield, Knoxville’s Curt Powell will be joined by Anthony Gomez from New Jersey and Nathan Gonzalez from Florida.  Powell can play several positions in the middle infield, while Gomez can play shortstop and third base. Gonzalez is primarily a catcher but can also play outfield and first base.

As with any baseball recruiting class, it is possible some of these athletes will choose to join the professional ranks if their names are called in the major league draft on June 9 and 10.

The spring signing period occurs between April 8 and Aug. 1, and it is possible that more recruits will join the fold at that time.

Courtesy of InsideVandy.com

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