Just because affiliated baseball is no longer played in Jamestown, it doesn’t mean professional players of tomorrow can’t been seen at Diethrick Park.

In fact, 24 former Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League players were taken in this year’s Major League Baseball draft, which wrapped up Tuesday.

No PGCBL players were taken in Sunday’s first round, but 14 were taken in rounds 2-10 on Monday.

A pair of third-round selections kicked off the action. The Detroit Tigers took Alabama’s Dylan Smith with the 74th overall pick and two selections later the Baltimore Orioles took Kentucky’s John Rhodes. Smith played for the Amsterdam Mohawks in 2019, striking out 28 in 12 appearances with a 2.37 earned run average. Rhodes played for the Oneonta Outlaws in 2019 and hit .316 with nine doubles and three home runs in 36 games.

In the fourth round, the Tigers dipped into the PGCBL talent pool again when they took Bryant’s Tyler Mattison with the 104th overall pick. The Los Angeles Angels selected Vanderbilt’s Luke Murphy with the 110th pick and the Miami Marlins selected Mississippi State’s Tanner Allen with the 118th pick. Mattison played for the Glens Falls Dragons in 2017 and struck out 41 in six starts. Murphy played for the Albany Dutchmen in 2018 and struck out nine while pitching to a 1.50 ERA in four appearances.

Allen played for Amsterdam in 2018 and batted .317 with three home runs and 14 RBIs.

The Mohawks sent another Mississippi State player into the pros in the fifth round when the Kansas City Royals selected Eric Cerantola 139th overall. The Oakland A’s followed that up with Vanderbilt’s CJ Rodriguez at 158th overall. Cerantola went 2-0 with 22 strikeouts in 12 innings for Amsterdam in 2019 while Rodriguez had four doubles and a .398 on-base percentage in 29 games for Mohawk Valley in 2019.

Alabama’s Sam Praytor went to the Marlins in the sixth round at 179th overall and Wofford’s Colin Davis went to the Seattle Mariners in the seventh round at 204th overall. Praytor hit .350 with five doubles in 12 games for Amsterdam in 2018 while Davis hit .281 with seven doubles, three home runs and 22 RBIs for Elmira in 2018.

A pair of eighth-round selections also played in the PGCBL. The St. Louis Cardinals selected Mike Antico from Texas at 241st overall and the San Diego Padres took Lucas Dunn from Louisville at 250th overall. Antico hit three doubles and stole 14 bases for Amsterdam in 2018 while Dunn hit .328 with 18 RBIs and a .459 OBP for Albany in 2018.

The Cardinals then selected Angelo State’s Trent Baker in the ninth round at 271st overall. Baker pitched in eight games for Newark in 2018 and struck out 41 while carrying a 4.46 ERA.

In the final round Monday, the New York Yankees picked Maryland’s Benjamin Cowles at 303rd overall and the Padres took Quinnipiac’s Colton Bender at 310th overall. Cowles had three RBIs and two runs scored in six games for Newark in 2018. Bender hit .327 with 11 RBIs in 15 games for the Utica Blue Sox in 2018.

On Tuesday, the Colorado Rockies made the first 11th-round pick of a former PGCBL player when they took Virginia’s Nic Kent at 320th. Kent hit .315 with three doubles and a .425 on-base percentage for the Newark Pilots in 2018.

The Atlanta Braves selected St. John Fisher product Adam Zebrowski in the 13th round at 397th overall. Zebrowski spent 13 games with the Pilots in 2019 and was currently playing for the Dutchmen, where he was hitting .360 with six home runs and 16 RBIs.

Grand Canyon’s Channy Ortiz was taken in the 14th round at 408th overall by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ortiz hit .500 with a double and six RBIs in five games for the Niagara Power this summer.

One round later, the Diamondbacks selected Wake Forest’s Shane Muntz with the 438th overall pick. Muntz hit .340 with seven home runs and 24 RBIs in 35 games for Amsterdam in 2018.

Another Mohawk went six picks later when the Mariners took Indiana’s Cole Barr, who hit .275 with three doubles, three triples and two home runs in 2018.

Hofstra’s Jimmy Joyce went in the 16th round, 474th overall to Seattle. In 2019, Joyce pitched to a 4.46 ERA with Mohawk Valley, and he is currently still playing for the DiamondDawgs.

The New York Mets selected Xavier’s Nick Zwack in the 17th round with the 502nd pick. In 2018, Zwack threw 34 innings with a 3.18 ERA for the Saugerties Stallions.

The Tigers picked Western Carolina’s Justice Bigbie with the 555th pick during the 19th round. Bigbie hit .429 in five games played during the 2017 season with the Geneva Red Wings.

Marist’s Ryan Cardona was selected by the Cincinnati Reds during the 19th round. The 570th pick overall, Cardona had 35 strikeouts and a 1.29 ERA in 10 appearances for Amsterdam in 2019.

The last PGCBL alum taken Tuesday was Fairfield’s Justin Guerrera in the 20th round. The 592nd pick, Guerrera hit .306 with 25 RBIs in 31 games for Mohawk Valley in 2019.