Baseball's Bogusevic Drafted In First Round By Houston Astros
Jun 7, 2005 | Baseball
June 7, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, La. - Tulane University baseball standout Brian Bogusevic was drafted in the first round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft Tuesday afternoon, taken 24th overall by the Houston Astros.
Bogusevic becomes the fourth first-round pick in Tulane history and the third in the last five years, joining Frank Wills (Kansas City, 1980), Jake Gautreau (San Diego, 2001) and Michael Aubrey (Cleveland, 2003). Bogusevic is the first of several Green Wave student-athletes expected to be taken in the two-day draft, which concludes on Wednesday, June 8.
A native of Oak Lawn, Ill., Bogusevic was selected after leading the Green Wave with 13 wins, a 2.72 ERA, 119.1 innings pitched and a .239 opponent batting average while ranking second with 119 strikeouts. He earned first-team Louisville Slugger All-American, was named to the College Baseball Foundation National Honors Team, and is a semifinalist for the Xanthus-Dick Howser Trophy, Roger Clemens Award and Brooks Wallace Award.
Bogusevic started all 17 games he pitched and has also seen time in 36 games in the offensive lineup, including 31 starts. As a pitcher, he leads Conference USA in innings pitched while ranking second in wins and ERA and third in strikeouts.
He posted eight-plus strikeout performances nine times, including 10 at Louisville (March 26) and vs. TCU (May 20), and a career-best 13 in the season-opener vs. Southeast Missouri State (Feb. 11).
A first-team All-Conference USA honoree, Bogusevic has also made his presence felt at the plate. Despite a nagging hamstring injury that kept him out of the lineup for most of the first two months of the season, he is hitting .324 (36-for-111) with seven doubles, 21 RBI and nine stolen bases.
Bogusevic becomes just the second Tulane player ever drafted by Houston, joining former Green Wave infielder Mickey McKee who went to the Astros in the 32nd round of the 2000 draft.
