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Draft-Room Backflip (No, Not Bud Selig)

by Rob Neyer
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2012 MLB Draft Wraps After 3 Days
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With the 13th pick in the Rule 4 Draft, the White Sox took a Corpus Christi high-schooler named Courtney Hawkins.

Hawkins is super-athletic. How athletic?

Here's John Sickels' scouting report. Also, Hawkins does back-flips in street clothes. Indoors. Right after getting drafted by the Chicago White Sox. Evidence after the jump ...

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