Minnesota Twins Dept: Scouts are predicting Deglan will be a high pick during Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft on June 7, and are calling him Canada’s best catching prospect ever, according to The Globe and Mail. Among BCPBL alums, Morneau would later move to first base with the Twins and win American League most valuable player honours. Lawrie, Canada’s highest-drafted position player 16th in 2008 , has shifted to second base and is already at Milwaukee’s Double-A affiliate, arguably the Brewers’ top prospect at 20 and but Kellin Deglan, an 18-year-old from Langley, B.C., is a catcher of a different sort. He projects as a big-league receiver – the rare homegrown athlete who can handle one of the most demanding and cerebral positions on the diamond. “There’s no doubt,” says Minnesota Twins scout Doug Mathieson, Deglan’s coach with the Langley Blaze of the British Columbia Premier Baseball League. “Brett Lawrie and Justin Morneau were not catchers, they were hitters. Kellin is the real package.” As
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