In the 10th round of the MLB draft today, the Mets picked a right-handed pitcher named Akeel Morris out of Charlotte Amalie High School in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

I don’t know anything about Morris beyond what’s on his BeRecruited.com profile: He’s 6’1″, 170 pounds, threw 44 innings with a 2.65 ERA this season (or in travel ball, or somewhere) and he’s committed to Connors State University.

If Morris signs and eventually reaches the Majors as a pitcher, he will become only the second player from the U.S. Virgin Islands to do so. Al McBean — who went to the same high school as Morris — pitched in 409 games with the Pirates, Dodgers and Padres in the 60s and 70s.

There have been 10 position players in the Majors from the U.S. Virgin Islands, but only three since the turn of the millenium: Midre Cummings, Callix Crabbe and monstrous Quadruple-A masher Calvin Pickering. And all three went to high school in the continental United States.

So here’s rooting for Akeel Morris to help make baseball just a little bit more global. And if it benefits the Mets along the way, you know, good.