It was an unbelievable moment, Kenny Koplove said. The South Philadelphia native was sitting with his parents around the computer on Wednesday, the final day of the baseball's first-year player draft. He got a call from his adviser, telling him that the Phillies would draft Koplove in the 17th round.
"I put down the phone and a minute later it's on the board," the righthander said. "It's been a dream come true. It's hard to put it into words. When that opportunity came, it wasn't even a second thought."
Koplove starred at Penn Charter and spent the last three seasons at Duke, where he pitched and played shortstop.