Flaa eager to start pro baseball career - Bismarck Tribune
Jay Flaa doesn't know where he'll be getting his mail in the next fortnight, but it probably won't be North Dakota. Flaa, the North Dakota State University closer from Mandan, was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles during the sixth round of the MLB first-year player draft on Tuesday. "It will probably be between rookie ball, which I'd assume, or single A in the Gulf Coast League. In single A it's in Aberdeen, Md. , which is about 25 or 26 miles from Baltimore," Flaa said Wednesday. They'll tell me if I'm going to Baltimore to sign or whether they'll come here (to Mandan). Flaa, a 6-foot-3, 225-pound right-hander, is the highest pick from NDSU since 1994 when Mike Gunderson was selected in the fifth round by Houston. Although the round and the team was a mystery, Flaa was pretty sure he's be picked in the MLB draft based on the contact he'd had with big-league teams. Flaa said he'd received no indication the Orioles were giving him a good look. When I got a call from them in the sixth round was the first I'd heard from them," he said. Flaa's outstanding season last summer with Walla Walla, Wash. , in the West Coast League, a summer wood bat league for collegiate players, generated almost immediate interest from big league clubs. Source: bismarcktribune.com
