6 players with Bay Area ties go on 1st day of MLB draft

6 players with Bay Area ties go on 1st day of MLB draft A half-dozen players with Bay Area ties were taken on the first day of the 2016 MLB Draft. Menlo College third baseman Lucas Erceg went No. 46 to the Brewers, Santa Clara right-hander Mitchell White went No. 65 to the Dodgers, Pepperdine right-hander A.J. Puckett (De La Salle-Concord) went No. 67 to the Royals and Cal catcher Brett Cumberland went No. 76 to the Braves. Because he sat out more than a year, the son of former major-league pitcher Paul Quantrill entered Thursday as one of the draft’s biggest wild cards. In 56 games with the Oaks, he batted .308 with 56 RBIs, 20 home runs and 47 runs. Cumberland, the 2016 Pac-12 Player of the Year, led the conference in home runs (16), RBIs (51) and slugging percentage (.678), and was second in on-base percentage (.480) and total bases (122).