Maple Rookie Draft Results & Blockbuster deal with NY

One of the largest trades in ABL history took place this month.  The details of the trade were as follows:

TO NEW YORK:

CL RON CUTTER (ABL), MR CHANDLER FISHER (ABL), MR BRANDON WILSON (ABL), OF BILLY GREER (ABL)

TO MAPLE:
SP PEDRO PEREZ (A), OF MARTIN JENKINS (A), SP TOM COLLINS (AA), 2B RONNIE TALLEY (AAA) AND MR LYLE ARNOLD (DL-ABL)

New York acquired a solid, streaky power hitter to join their lineup together with some excellent bullpen help.  All 4 players should help their stretch run as they try to qualify for the playoffs in the difficult RCL..

Maple acquired some nice future talent including another pitching prospect.  Lyle Arnold has a huge team option contract that will not be executed according to team officials.  OF Martin Jenkins 1 week after the trade suffered an injury forcing him to the DL to join SP Tom Collins.  2B Ronnie Talley was immediately called up to the Maple team to play full time.

Rookie Draft:

Maple selected with the sixth overall pick SP Ramu Pavi.  We were thinking of taking a hitter with this pick but, to our surprise when we saw Pavi still on the board we just couldn't pass up on his arm.  Maple then continued to take another SP in Round 2 by selecting Jeff Kimball.  In Round 3, Maple selected LF Arama Huanu their first hitter of the draft.  From there on out, Maple rotating between selecting a pitcher and a hitter until the draft reached round 9 and 10 where the organization decided to take back to back catcher selections (Jasper Anderson & Phil Bowman).

Maple was then announced to be the host site for the 7th annual ABL Allstar game.  Unfortunately for the TML fans, the RCL won the game 5-2.  Dean Graham, 3B for Montreal was selected as the games MVP.