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Oswego East’s Dominic Battista selected by Kansas City Royals in fourth round of MLB Draft · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego East Dominic Batista selected by Kansas City Royals in
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  Speaker 1: fourth round of MLB Draft. Written by Joshua Welji, this
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett. Dominic Batista's spring started in a most inauspicious,
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  Speaker 1: painful fashion. His summer is going better. The Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: outfielder on Saturday, was selected by the Kansas City Royals
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth round of the MLB Draft with the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred nineteenth overall pick. Batista was the second Chicago
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  Speaker 1: area product drafted by the Royals. Saturday, Lions pitcher Jack
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  Speaker 1: Slidem was selected with the fifty sixth overall pick. Batista
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  Speaker 1: is committed to play collegiately at Uice, but he could
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  Speaker 1: forego that to sign with the Royals. The slot value
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  Speaker 1: for the one hundred nineteenth pick is six hundred fifty
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  Speaker 1: one five hundred dollars. Batista, a left hand hitter with speed,
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  Speaker 1: is the number four ranked player in his class by
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  Speaker 1: Prep Baseball Report, But the senior center fielder broke the
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  Speaker 1: handmate bone in his wrist the first at bat of
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  Speaker 1: the spring. He finally returned to the lineup at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of May and didn't miss a beat. He returned
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  Speaker 1: to play twenty one games in hit point four four
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  Speaker 1: to two with a point six to zero seven on
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  Speaker 1: base percentage and point eight three seven slugging with nineteen hits,
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  Speaker 1: four homers, three doubles, one triple, twenty eight run scored,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen RBIs, and program record thirty seven stolen bases. Batista
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  Speaker 1: is also program's career stolen base record holder. Batista joins
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  Speaker 1: two fellow Oswego East graduates in the professional ranks. Pitcher
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  Speaker 1: Noah Schultz, draft in the first round by the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox in twenty twenty two, made his big league debut
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  Speaker 1: with Chicago in April. Another pitcher, Ashton Izzy, drafted in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth round in twenty twenty two by the Seattle Mariners,
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  Speaker 1: is at Double A in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. This
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  Speaker 1: story will be updated