The Colorado Rockies have selected left handed pitcher Tyler Matzek with the eleventh overall pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Matzek is committed to the University of Oregon to play college baseball. He is from Capistrano Valley High School in California. He stands at six foot, three inches and weighs 183 pounds.
The Rockies are struggling in 2009 and haven’t been good since their World Series appearance in 2007. They fired manager Clint Hurdle earlier this season and replaced him with Jim Tracy at the helm. The Rockies have a record of 25-32, good for 13 games out of first place behind the Dodgers in the National League West. They are sitting in fourth place.
The Rockies choose Christian Friedrich with the 25th overall pick in the first round in the 2008 draft. Friedrich is a left handed pitcher out of Eastern Kentucky University. In 2009 he is 3-3 with a 2.31 ERA in 10 starts between two different levels in the Rockies organization. He has allowed 46 hits in just over 58 innings pitched and has struck out 80 hitters.
