Two South Florida baseball players have been selected to play professional baseball in the Major League draft. Caleb Roberts, an alumnus of St. Thomas Aquinas signed a contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Calvary Christian pitcher Irv Carter signed with the Toronto Blue Jays. Carter was selected with the 152nd pick and signed a contract worth $850,000. The Diamondbacks selected Roberts with the 138th pick. He signed a contract worth $402,000. Carter had signed with the University of Miami baseball team but because he has signed to play professional baseball will not play college baseball. At Calvary Christian he had a 5-2 record as a senior and had 81 strikeouts. Roberts was a top player for the St. Thomas team that won a state championship in 2018. He was not drafted after high school and played on the University of North Carolina baseball team. He hit ten homeruns for the Tarheels and had a .270 batting average in 2021. |
