Baseball: Another three local players tabbed by teams in Round 17

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Frank Pfister from Emory University in Georgia by way of Harvard-Westlake, was selected by the Cincinnati Reds Friday with the 509th pick overall in the 17th round of Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft. Pfister, a philosophy major, is a third basemen.

Rob Waite, a right-handed pitcher from UC Riverside, by way of the Central Valley, was taken 523rd by the Detroit Tigers, and Ryan Babineau, a catcher at UCLA who graduated from Etiwanda High, was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks with pick No. 528.

If I’ve missed any of our local players who have been drafted out of college, let me know!

-- Jaime Cardenas