Baseball: Round 28 produces three more Southland draft picks

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James Johnson, a left-handed pitcher from Biola who’s from Bakersfield (he may be from Bakersfield at some point, I don’t know, but he is a graduate of La Mirada High, as one of our readers points out), was drafted by the New York Mets with pick No. 854 overall Friday in Round 28 of Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft.

Michael Zuanich, an outfielder from UC Santa Barbara by way of Bishop Montgomery High and El Camino College, was chosen 857th by the Colorado Rockies, and Michael Kenney, a right-handed pitcher from Loyola Marymount by way of Saddleback College who’s from the San Diego area, was selected by the Angels with the 859th overall pick.

-- Jaime Cardenas