Vipers select Lethbridge native and rookie southpaw
Published on April 5, 2005 under Northern League (NL)
Calgary Vipers News Release
The Calgary Vipers used their first two picks in Tuesday's Northern League Draft to select left-handed pitcher Sam Jansen and righty Ken Falconer, a Lethbridge native.
After winning a coin-toss with the league's other expansion franchise, the Edmonton Cracker-Cats, to determine which team would have the first choice in the draft, the Vipers chose Jansen, a 24-year-old who hails from New Berlin, Wisconsin.
Jansen, who will be entering his first season of professional baseball played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he appeared both on the mound and in the outfield.
Selected with their second pick, Falconer is a former draft-pick of the Seattle Mariners and is the fourth Canadian and third Albertan to join the Vipers. He played last season at Everett of the Northwest League (Class-A).
The draft follows a two-day free agent tryout camp being held at the Texas Rangers' spring training facility at Surprise, Arizona.
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