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Talking with ... Padres infielder Greg Garcia

Greg Garcia was a seventh-round draft pick out of the University of Hawaii in 2010, three years after Draft Day came and went without his name being called. Garcia wasn’t sweating it. The scouts who came around him at Valhalla High in El Cajon told him he needed to play college ball first.

Union-Tribune: What was your Draft Day experience like when you were a high school senior?

Garcia: I committed to the University of Hawaii after the summer after my junior year. I had professional scouts come up and tell me you need to go to college.