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Twins: Draft day yielding fewer multisport athletes

Amid increasing specialization that starts younger and younger, the three-sport high school star is becoming harder to find in baseball's annual June draft.

"When I started scouting, that's what the old scouts said: They looked for athletes," said Twins scouting director Deron Johnson, running his eighth draft for the organization. "Unfortunately, the way it is now, you don't get a lot of that. A lot of kids don't play multiple sports."

Illinois left-hander Tyler Jay, taken by the Twins with the sixth overall pick this year, was a receiver-returner-punter on his high school football team.

Third-rounder Travis Blankenhorn has a basketball background, while fellow third baseman Trey Cabbage, taken in the fourth round, was better known on the Tennessee AAU basketball scene until the summer before his senior year in high school, when he dedicated himself to baseball.