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Jimmie Sherfy was taken in the 10th round of the 2013 MLB draft.

(Tyson Alger, The Oregonian)

The Oregon baseball season ended on Sunday, but a big part of next season will be determined later this week when the Major League Baseball draft begins on Thursday.

A year ago, six Ducks were deemed worthy enough of selections as Ryon Healy (3rd round/Oakland), Jimmie Sherfy (10th/Arizona), Cole Wiper (10th/Texas), J.J. Altobelli (18th/St. Louis), Christian Jones (18th/San Fran) and Brett Thomas (21st/Seattle) became the second biggest Oregon draft class in school history.

This season, Oregon coach George Horton is projecting another pillaging.

"The draft will affect us," Horton said. "It will. Seven or eight of them are lined up to be drafted in the first several rounds."

What could have the biggest impact on the Ducks over the coming months isn't who's drafted, but who stays. Altobelli was the only senior in last year's class and all of them signed with their drafting ball club.

We've seen the boom that can come from a player deciding to stay. Oregon State's Ben Wetzler was taken in the fifth-round by Philadelphia in last year's draft, declined signing and came back to lead the Beavers to the Pac-12 title.

Jake Reed, Tommy Thorpe, Scott Heineman, Shaun Chase and Kyle Garlick are all non-seniors likely to be in the draft conversation and the Ducks will also probably lose committed recruits, as well.

A year ago, Oregon came out on the fortunate end of that, with 36th-overall draft pick Matt Krook electing to come to college instead of signing with the Miami Marlins.

"We'll keep our fingers crossed the a guy like Matt Krook will slip through the cracks and come to school," Horton said. "It takes a courageous young man to say wait a minute on the draft and turn down life changing money, or a lot of money for an 18-year-old for sure."

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