Pirates Select Barnes
By: David Collier
Updated: June 4, 2012
LUBBOCK, Texas -
The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Texas Tech junior center fielder
Barrett Barnes (Sugar Land, Texas) with the 45th overall pick in the
supplemental
first round of the 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft
Monday evening.
Barnes
becomes just the second Red Raider in school history to be drafted in
the first round while becoming the third highest drafted Texas Tech
player in program
history.
Barnes,
a three-time All-Big 12 selection and preseason All-American, led Texas
Tech and ranked among the Big 12 leaders in numerous offensive
statistical categories
while batting .325 (67-for-206) with 17 double, six triples, nine home
runs and 49 RBI with 19-of-20 stolen bases.
A
fixture in the Texas Tech all-time record book after just three
seasons, Barnes owns a .319 career batting average with 203base hits,
171 runs scored, 51 doubles,
nine triples, 33 home runs, 140 RBI, 113 walks and 50-of-56 stolen bases
in 169 career games played.
One
of the most decorated players in school history, Barnes has received 58
individual awards, honors and recognitions over his three seasons as a
Red Raider, including
Big 12 Freshman of the Year in 2010, named to numerous Freshman
All-America teams and was named to four preseason All-America squads
prior to this season.
Barnes
was the fourth Big 12 player taken on Monday following Oklahoma State
LHP Andrew Heaney (No. 9 - Miami Marlins), Texas A&M OF Tyler Naquin
(No. 15 - Cleveland
Indians) and Texas A&M RHP Michael Wacha (No. 19 - St. Louis
Cardinals),
