The Sun takes a look back at a 2013 interview with Jimmy Yezzo, a Bishop Eustace grad and Cherry Hill native selected in the seventh round of the 2013MLB Draft.
Last week, more than 1,000 players were selected in the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft.
In the draft’s history, a handful of players with roots in Cherry Hill have been selected, with the last Cherry Hill native having been drafted four years ago.
In the 2013 MLB Draft, the Washington Nationals selected Jimmy Yezzo, a Cherry Hill native, Bishop Eustace Preparatory School grad and University of Delaware junior, in the seventh round of the draft. Former Cherry Hill Sun reporter Nick Cohen talked to Yezzo shortly after he was drafted.
“There were a lot of hugs and of course a little celebrating,” Yezzo said in the June 26 edition of the Cherry Hill Sun.
In the 2013 season, Yezzo led the Colonial Athletic Association with a .410 batting average and ranked second in the league with 13 home runs.
“I was definitely aware of the numbers that I was putting up,” Yezzo said in 2013. “At the same point, I knew I had to focus and just keep doing what I was doing to be successful. I just wanted to keep having good at bats, to keep improving.”
Yezzo began his career with the Auburn Doubledays in the single-A New York-Penn League, where he batted .258 with two home runs and 26 RBIs in 2013. Yezzo’s best pro season came in the South Atlantic League with the Hagerstown Suns in 2014. Yezzo hit for a .270 average and finished second on the team in home runs with 13.
Yezzo moved up to the Carolina League and the Potomac Nationals in 2015, where he batted just .192 in 49 games before being released in July. Yezzo then played the remainder of 2015 and all of 2016 with the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League. Yezzo hit 15 home runs in 108 games across two seasons.
In 2017, Yezzo joined the Cabrini College baseball coaching staff, where he was listed as being an assistant coach for the hitters and first basemen. Cabrini finished 2017 with a record of 10–22.
