I talked a little about Zack Wheeler a few posts back here but I really thought they were leaning towards Tyler Matzek, especially after the lefty from Capistrano,

The only slight knock on the right-hander, is that he sometimes loses his command of the strikezone. He has shown the ability to get out of it when he does get himself into trouble, but that's something he's going to have to improve on. Other than that, he's right along the lines of former top picks Madison Bumgarner and Matt Cain as far as hard-throwing, high school arms from the south. As a senior this year at East Paulding High in Georgia, Wheeler was all kinds of nasty, going 9-0, sporting a 0.54 ERA and striking out a freakish 149 batters in only 76 innings pitched. He also only allowed 31 hits on the year as well. I've attached some video of Wheeler below and I will add more to this post later on in the day after the Giants have a few more selections so stay tuned. Draft Coverage here is just beginning!
-Zach Wheeler dominates a high school batter at Wrigley: Video 1
-Wheeler out of stretch: Video 2
-Wheeler on MLB.com's scouting video : Video 3
**Update: With their second rounder, the Giants nabbed the big-hitting high school catcher/first basemen out of Arizona, Tommy Joseph. In the third round, they took one of the drafts better third basemen and someone we've covered here a bit on the Giants blog, Chris Dominguez out of Louisville. Much, much more on the draft, including day one recap and day two updates coming Wednesday.
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