2009 Indians 30th Round Pick: INF Bryson Smith

In the 30th round, the Cleveland Indians select: INF Bryson Smith - Young Harris College (GA), 6'2" 190 lbs, DOB 12/17/1988.

UPDATE (7:07 PM EST): Jeff Ellis
Bryson Smith is an infielder out of Young Harris Community College. He is committed to go to Florida next year. He is one of the more intriguing players the Indians drafted late today. He didn’t rank in BA’s top prospects in the state of Georgia, but he put up ridiculous numbers on the way to being named American Baseball Coaches Association's Division I Player of the Year in the National Junior College Athletic Association. He was also unanimously selected as the Georgia Junior College Athletic Association/Region 17 Player of the Year and was also named a first-team Division I All-American. Young Harris is a JuCo that constantly pipelines excellent talent the most famous alum being Nick Markakis. Smith hit .469 this year with 21 HR and 90 RBI, most of those numbers tying or breaking conference single season records. I would love to find a scouting report on him, but let’s be honest if you aren’t a prospect Florida won’t even bother with you. To me at least he is one of the most intriguing guys we drafted just due to his amazing numbers. For a guy I had never heard of and BA had nothing on, those are some pretty amazing stats.

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