U-M's Michael O'Neill top state player selected in baseball draft

| Detroit News staff Comments Purchase Image Michigan's Patrick Biondi was a ninth-round pick by the New York Mets. (Mark Bialek/Special to the Detroit News) The University of Michigan and Michigan State each had two players selected in the major league baseball draft, but the Wolverines had the first player selected with state ties. Michael O’Neill, a junior center fielder and the nephew of former Yankees and Reds outfielder Paul O’Neill, was selected Friday in the third round by the Yankees with the 103rd pick. His teammate, outfielder Patrick Biondi, went to the Mets in the ninth round. Michigan State had a pair of right-handed pitchers selected. David Gardner went to the Cubs in Friday’s...