USA Baseball Announces Team Trials Invitees
| Staff Report |
| June 28, 2006 |
USA Baseball announced a group of 32 players and alternates who will be considered for inclusion on its 2006 junior national team. The players, age 18-and-under, were selected from the eight-team Tournament of Stars in Joplin, Mo.
The players will reconvene Sept. 6 in Atlanta for a week-long trial, including workouts, scrimmages and exhibition games that will serve as part of the selection process for this year’s 18-member junior national team roster. The team has qualified to compete in the International Baseball Federation World Championship Sept. 17-27 in Sanctus Spiritus, Cuba.
Thirty of the 32 players who made the first cut are members of the high school Class of 2007.
USA BASEBALL 2006 JUNIOR NATIONAL
TEAM TRIALS INVITEES
TEAM TRIALS INVITEES
| Pitchers | High School | B-T | Ht. | Wt. | Class |
| Tim Alderson | Horizon HS, Phoenix | R-R | 6-6 | 205 | 2007 |
| Blake Beavan | Irving (Texas) HS | R-R | 6-6 | 205 | 2007 |
| *Kyle Blair | Los Gatos (Calif.) HS | R-R | 6-4 | 200 | 2007 |
| Robert Broach | Archbishop Rummel HS, Metairie, La. | R-R | 6-0 | 195 | 2007 |
| John Gast | Lake Brantley HS, Altamonte Springs, Fla. | L-L | 6-1 | 195 | 2007 |
| *Erik Goeddel | Bellarmine Prep, San Jose, Calif. | R-R | 6-3 | 170 | 2007 |
| *Cole Green | Coppell (Texas) HS | R-R | 6-0 | 180 | 2007 |
| Matt Harvey | Fitch HS, Groton, Conn. | R-R | 6-4 | 195 | 2007 |
| Michael Main | Deland (Fla.) HS | R-R | 6-1 | 170 | 2007 |
| Jarrod Parker | Norwell HS, Ossian, Ind. | R-R | 6-1 | 175 | 2007 |
| Greg Peavey | Hudson's Bay HS, Vancouver, Wash. | R-R | 6-1 | 180 | 2007 |
| Neil Ramirez | Kempsville (Va.) HS | R-R | 6-3 | 190 | 2007 |
| Kevin Rhoderick | Horizon HS, Scottsdale, Ariz. | R-R | 6-0 | 180 | 2007 |
| Tanner Robles | Cottonwood HS, Sale Lake City | L-L | 6-3 | 190 | 2007 |
| Josh Smoker | Calhoun (Ga.) HS | L-L | 6-2 | 190 | 2007 |
| Robert Stock | Agoura (Calif.) HS | R-R | 6-1 | 180 | 2007 |
| DJ Swatscheno | Flanagan HS, Pembroke Pines, Fla. | L-L | 6-2 | 190 | 2007 |
| Mike Watt | Capistrano Valley HS, Mission Viejo, Calif. | L-L | 6-1 | 180 | 2007 |
| Catchers | High School | B-T | Ht. | Wt. | Class |
| *Daniel Elorriaga Matra | Douglas HS, Parkland, Fla. | R-R | 6-1 | 180 | 2007 |
| Kawika Emsley-Pai | Jackson HS, Mill Creek, Wash. | B-R | 5-11 | 185 | 2007 |
| Tommy Medica | Bellarmine Prep, San Jose, Calif. | R-R | 6-1 | 190 | 2006 |
| Danny Rams | Gulliver Prep, Miami | R-R | 6-2 | 220 | 2007 |
| Infielders | High School | B-T | Ht. | Wt. | Class |
| Christian Colon | Canyon HS, Anaheim | R-R | 6-1 | 185 | 2007 |
| Matt Dominguez | Chatsworth (Calif.) HS | R-R | 6-2 | 185 | 2007 |
| Freddie Freeman | El Modena HS, Orange, Calif. | L-R | 6-5 | 210 | 2007 |
| Justin Jackson | Roberson HS, Asheville, NC | R-R | 6-2 | 175 | 2007 |
| Hunter Morris | Grissom HS, Huntsville, Ala. | L-R | 6-4 | 195 | 2007 |
| Mike Moustakas | Chatsworth (Calif.) HS | L-R | 6-0 | 185 | 2007 |
| *Garrett Nash | Jordan HS, Sandy, Utah | B-R | 6-0 | 180 | 2007 |
| Iden Nazario | Southridge HS, Miami | L-L | 6-0 | 190 | 2007 |
| *Nick Noonan | Francis Parker HS, San Diego | L-R | 6-1 | 175 | 2007 |
| Victor Sanchez | Gahr HS, Cerritos, Calif. | R-R | 6-1 | 175 | 2007 |
| *Greg Sherry | Delbarton HS, Morristown, N.J. | R-R | 5-11 | 175 | 2007 |
| Riccio Torrez | Brophy Prep, Phoenix | R-R | 6-0 | 190 | 2007 |
| Josh Vitters | Cypress (Calif.) HS | R-R | 6-3 | 185 | 2007 |
| Outfielders | High School | B-T | Ht. | Wt. | Class |
| Kentrail Davis | Theodore (Ala.) HS | L-R | 5-10 | 195 | 2007 |
| *Chris Epps | Dunwoody HS, Atlanta | L-R | 6-1 | 170 | 2007 |
| *Nate Garcia | Bellarmine Prep, San Jose, Calif. | R-R | 6-1 | 185 | 2006 |
| Matt Newman | Brophy Prep, Phoenix | L-L | 5-10 | 175 | 2007 |
| Sequoyah Stonecipher | Mission Bay HS, San Diego | R-R | 6-1 | 190 | 2007 |
| Rafael Thomas | Lufkin (Texas) HS | R-R | 5-9 | 170 | 2007 |
| *Alternates |
Head Coach: Jason Hisey (Pima, Ariz., CC)
Assistant Coaches: Victor Solis, Gateway (Ariz.) CC, Jon Wente, (Central Arizona CC), Scott Knight, (Sedro-Woolley, Wash., HS)