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Sons of 3 managers among those drafted on 2nd day

Published Jun. 9, 2010 4:43 a.m. ET

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The sons of major league managers Jim Leyland, Bruce Bochy and Ozzie Guillen were among the players selected during a long second day of the baseball draft.

After televising its first and compensatory rounds during prime time Monday night, major league baseball held rounds 2-30 via conference calls between team officials on Tuesday.

Bryce Harper, a 17-year-old slugger with prodigious power from the College of Southern Nevada, was taken by Washington with the No. 1 overall pick Monday night.

All three managers' teams drafted in the family. Leyland's Detroit Tigers took his son, Patrick, in the eighth round. Patrick Leyland is a 6-foot-2 catcher from Bishop Canevin High School in Pittsburgh, who has a scholarship waiting from Maryland.

``He can stand on his own two feet,'' said the elder Leyland, adding anyone who thinks his son was drafted as a favor would be ``foolish.''

The Chicago White Sox, hosting the Tigers on Tuesday night, took Guillen's son, Ozney, a Florida high school outfielder, in the 22nd round.

San Francisco selected Bochy's son, Brett, a right-handed reliever from the University of Kansas, in the 20th round. The younger Bochy was 2-0 with a 0.78 ERA and five saves before having Tommy John surgery in April and missing the rest of the season for the Jayhawks.

Bruce Bochy said after a 3-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds that he hadn't yet had a chance to talk to his son about being drafted.

``I'm sure he's on cloud nine,'' Bochy said. ``Obviously, he's a Giants fan. I'm sure he's excited. He was hoping he'd get drafted despite the Tommy John surgery. He knew there'd been other cases. I told him that our closer, Brian Wilson, had it at LSU.''

Wilson was San Francisco's 24th-round selection in 2003, and missed his first pro season rehabbing. He has 101 major league saves since.

Several other notable names were called on the second day, including: Cory Vaughn (Mets), son of Greg Vaughn; Dickie Thon Jr. (Toronto), son of Dickie Thon; Garrett Buechele (Texas), son of Steve Buechele; Kellen Sweeney (Toronto), brother of Ryan Sweeney; Mel Rojas Jr. (Pittsburgh), son of Mel Rojas; Benjamin Gamel (Yankees), brother of Mat Gamel; Connor Narron (Baltimore), son of Jerry Narron; and Drew Cisco (Cincinnati), grandson of Galen Cisco.

The Nationals, who saw Stephen Strasburg strike out 14 in his big league debut against Pittsburgh on Tuesday after being taken No. 1 almost exactly a year ago, took San Diego left-hander Sammy Solis to start the second round.

After taking touted right-hander Jameson Taillon second overall, the Pirates got another impressive high school righty in the second round with Stetson Allie. Projected as a first-rounder, the 6-4, 225-pound Allie has a fastball that sits in the mid- to upper-90s.

Former Kentucky left-hander James Paxton went in the fourth round to Seattle after being the 37th overall pick by Toronto last year. He didn't sign, left Kentucky after a legal battle over whether his adviser negotiated with the Blue Jays - a violation of NCAA rules - and then opted to play for Grand Prairie of the independent American Association.

Rounds 31-50 of the draft were scheduled to be conducted Wednesday.

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AP Sports Writers Joe Kay in Cincinnati and Andrew Seligman in Chicago contributed to this report.

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