The Major League Baseball draftWhen: Today-Thursday.Today, 6 p.m.: First round, compensation rounds and second round.Friday, 1 p.m.: Rounds 3-10.Saturday, 1 p.m.: Rounds 11-40.Who’s eligible: High school, junior college and four-year college players (with at least three years in school)
Kenny Henderson was a pitching phenom, good enough to be the fifth player selected in the 1991 major league baseball draft.
But the sport he loved ultimately wasn’t so kind to the Ringgold High School standout who holds the distinction of being the Chattanooga area’s highest drafted player.
“Honestly, I fell asleep on the couch on draft day,” he said. “That day and the days leading up to it were hectic, fun and a little disappointing.”
While he seems indifferent today about pro baseball, he still follows his alma mater Miami Hurricanes and now as a Nashville resident has become interested in Vanderbilt partly because of the success of the program under Tim Corbin, who was coaching at Clemson when Henderson was playing at Miami.