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June 6, 2007
The annual draft of free agents will take place tomorrow.
The Red Sox do not have a pick in the first round, having forfeited that selection to the Los Angeles Dodgers for signing ex-Dodger Julio Lugo as a free agent in the offseason.
Boston, though, does have two "sandwich" picks between the first and second rounds because the Red Sox lost free agents to Cincinnati (Alex Gonzalez) and Cleveland (Keith Foulke). Boston's first two picks will be the 55th and 62nd selections overall.
There will be some interest in Oakland as the draft is going on, though, because Beau Mills, the son of Red Sox bench coach Brad Mills, is projected to go at some point in the first round. The Athletics have provided a suite for the Mills family, which lives in Visalia, about 150 miles from the McAfee Coliseum where Boston will be playing Oakland.
Game time is 12:35 locally, about an hour and a half after the draft begins. Manager Terry Francona, who has been friends with Mills for a long time and has seen Beau grow up, is hoping Beau goes early enough that Brad can celebrate with his son and the rest of the family in the suite before assuming his duties on the Red Sox bench.
"It's a win-win situation (for the Mills family)," said Francona
"Beau is going to get drafted; he'll be able to play pro ball, which is what he wants to do, and he'll probably get a lot of money, which is sure to make Millsy (Brad) happy because he's as tight (with a dollar) as (can be)," joked Francona.
-- Steven Krasner
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