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2024 9th Round Pick (#279): Jack Crowder - RHP - (Sr) Illinois (IL)


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  • 86this changed the title to 2024 9th Round Pick (#279): Jack Crowder - RHP - (Sr) Illinois (IL)

Hopefully not used as roughly by the Illinois schools as Cody Sedlock.

Any opportunity to recall Baltimore*-Washington Immaculate Grid star General Crowder is a good one, but that guy has some black ink, so Jack will have to start at more like Private Crowder.

*via St. Louis Browns

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