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Area baseball standouts await 'unpredictable' Major League Baseball Draft
Bart, Higginbotham, Hughes, Chalmers all possibilities to be drafted to big leagues
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Buford's Jake Higginbotham delivers a pitch in Game 1 of the Class AAAA state championship series May 23 in Fayetteville. Buford defeated Whitewater 5-0 in Game 1. - photo by Jared Putnam
Jonathan Hughes doesn’t feel like stressing himself out over the upcoming Major League Baseball draft. In fact, the Flowery Branch ace is likely to take in a movie, hop in the pool, go fishing, do anything else to take his mind off of the myriad draft projections that have him being selected anywhere from the sixth round or lower. “I’m excited to see what happens, but trying to keep my mind off of everything is the biggest thing,” he said.
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