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Athletics take Trivino in 11th round

Rock junior pitcher Lou Trivino was the 341st player selected in this year's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft

Lou Trivino
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Oakland Athletics on Saturday made Slippery Rock University junior pitcher Lou Trivino their 11th-round pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

Trivino, the 341st player selected in this year's draft, was the first Rock baseball player drafted since catcher-first baseman Matt Adams was selected in the 23rd round (699th overall) by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2009 draft.

Adams is currently a member of the Cardinals' Major League Baseball team.

Trivino was the second Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference player selected in this year's draft, behind only Mansfield University pitcher Nick Keener, the 10th-round pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

A native of Green Lane, Pa.,  and graduate of Upper Bucks Christian High School, Trivino has one collegiate season of eligibility remaining, but is expected to sign a professional contract in the next few days.

Trivino will probably start his pro career as a member of the Athletics' rookie-league team in Arizona. But the 6-foot-5, 225-pound right-hander may instead be assigned to the Burlington-based Vermont Lake Monsters, Oakland's short-season Class A, New York-Penn League team, or the Beloit Snappers, Oakland's long-season Class A, Midwest League team based in Wisconsin.

As a member of The Rock last spring, Trivino compiled a 7-5 win-loss record with a 1.83 earned run average and set SRU single-season (92) and career (227) strikeout records.

Trivino pitched eight complete games, one no-hit shutout and five total shutouts in 12 starts as a junior and led the PSAC in opposing hitters' batting average (.193) while ranking second in ERA and third in strikeouts

Those numbers earned Trivino first-team Daktronics, Inc., All-Atlantic Region, second-team American Baseball Coaches Association all-region, honorable mention National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association all-region and second-team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division honors in 2013.

Trivino was a first-team NCBWA and Daktronics all-region, first-team All-PSAC-West and honorable mention NCBWA All-America selection as a sophomore in 2012 after he completed an 8-3 record with a 1.78 ERA. He earned second-team All-PSAC-West and honorable mention NCBWA all-region honors as a freshman in 2011.

The highest-drafted Rock player since Gary Gill was an eighth-round pick of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1982, Trivino was the fifth highest overall pick in SRU baseball history.

Right-handed pitcher Garry Grafton, a sixth-round selection by the Detroit Tigers in the 1976 draft, stands as SRU's highest-picked player. Gill and Grafton's teammate and fellow right-handed pitcher Kevin Keenan (1976, Texas Rangers) were both eighth-round picks and  in 1976. Right-hander Geoff Meadows was the 10th-round pick of the Houston Astros in 1981.

Trivino was the 19th Rock baseball player selected in the amateur baseball draft and the first since both Craig Petulla and Tom Sullivan were picked in the 2000 draft.

Here is a complete list of Rock baseball players who have been selected in the amateur baseball draft, according to the Baseball America database:

Year Player Round Pick MLB Team
2013 RHP Lou Trivino 11th 341 Oakland Athletics
2009 C-1B Matt Adams 23 699 St. Louis Cardinals
2000 C Dan DeCola 16 462 Minnesota Twins
2000 RHP Craig Petulla 25 757 Houston Astros
2000 LHP Tom Sullivan 29 852 Minnesota Twins
2000 3B Greg Stokes 35 1032 Minnesota Twins
1995 RHP Mark Draeger 45 1241 Texas Rangers
1994 RHP Tony Dougherty 36 997 Cleveland Indians
1989 SS Craig White 23 603 Los Angeles Dodgers
1987 3B Willy Fillard 61 1239 Toronto Blue Jays
1984 RHP Gary Chesnoski 12 305 Houston Astros
1983 C Sal Agostinelli 22 565 St. Louis Cardinals
1982 1B Gary Gill 8 205 St. Louis Cardinals
1982 3B Jeff Pasquale 21 541 St. Louis Cardinals
1981 RHP Geoff Meadows 10 257 Houston Astros
1980 3B Bill Metil 17 435 Cincinnati Reds
1976 RHP Kevin Keenan 8 180 Texas Rangers
1976 RHP Garry Grafton 6 108 Detroit Tigers
1976 C Doug Zimmerman 36 741 Pittsburgh Pirates


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