Well tonight the draft starts for three sessions through Tuesday. This is going to be a major impact for our team next year. (duh)
Good thing for us is that players need to sign in only two weeks by August 1st if this is correct. So we won't have long to wait to see the final impact. As usual those taken today and tomorrow are very likely to sign (not 100% Rocker / Fabian didn't last year!) and Tuesday more speculative but there are only 20 rounds this year.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/sp...any-rounds-prospects-signability/10031841002/
My guess is that 7 players on our roster sign. Some of our commit(s) will too. I'll go way out on a limb and say Parada is the our only player to be drafted tonight and he'll sign. (tic) No detailed basis as my past detailed attempts have been inconsistent with subsequent reality. Every player has his own unique unpublished set of circumstances.
12 of the top 30 projected are from HS. It'll be interesting to see how close it comes out to that. Since there are only 20 rounds, I think the number of college players taken will surprise individual college teams. And there will be a bunch of undrafted deals done by those players not drafted.
I went to a AAA game last night (Norfolk Tides versus Red Sox). What struck me was the lackluster attitude of the players on the field. I guess the grind of the minors puppy mill gets to them. I'd want my kid to stay in college unless there were big dollars attached. But that's just me.
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