Dodger's prospect wins Roger Clemens Award

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Never a bad thing to be able to get the best pitcher in college baseball with the 40th pick, although I guess his ceiling isn't high enough to warrant a higher pick. At the least, it shows he dominated the college level. Quite impressive.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NA...t=.jsp&c_id=la

HOUSTON -- Luke Hochevar of the University of Tennessee was named the 2005 Roger Clemens Award winner Thursday night at the Westchase Marriott Hotel. The Roger Clemens Award is presented each year to the top pitcher in college baseball.
Hochevar, the Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year, struck out a school record 154 batters while posting a 15-3 record and 2.26 ERA for the season. He opened his season with the loss in a 10-1 defeat to Texas A&M at the Minute Maid Classic in Houston on February 11. But he rebounded to win 15 of his next 16 decisions to tie Lance Broadway of Texas Christian University for the national lead in wins.

Broadway, a first-round pick and 15th overall of the Chicago White Sox, and Cesar Carrillo of Miami, a first-round choice (18th overall) of the San Diego Padres, were the other finalists for the Roger Clemens Award, which is determined by a vote of a national committee of selectors.

Hochevar was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the 40th overall pick of the supplemental round between the first and second rounds in last month's First-Year Player Draft. The Dodgers also drafted him out of high school.

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NCAA naming an award after Roger Clemens.