@LPierce24 @TrojanWallF5 lol!! All-Americans don’t make the cut.
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Tyler Buckley
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Tyler Buckley
@MSbaseball39
Dad x2 | Catholic | Former Coach | @MGCCC_Baseball & @LittleRockBSB Alum | @Phillies draft pick | Still chasing command.
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Building off that, who are the greatest father-child combos in Troy History?
I’ve got Mark and Chase Smartt.
Eddie and Leah Brundidge.
The Crosses and the Campbells.
Kara Richey@Kara_Richey
Who gets your vote as the greatest father-son or father-daughter duo in sports history? That's today's CavenaughCars . com question on the #WDRZ.
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@PackTheRic @CBCJakeMck Yes. Based solely on talent level spread, agree. Alot of very good baseball minds (scouts, MiLB coaches, staff) get the 🪓. Doesn’t grow the game we (I assume) love. Big Pharma is licking their chops if this happens.
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@MSbaseball39 @CBCJakeMck I’m not disagreeing with you in the slightest my points are strictly about the lower levels of college ball potentially failing with this change. I think objectively they automatically see an increase in the caliber and amount of talent
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Hot Take:
This benefits the midmajors
Jeff Passan@JeffPassan
MLB today proposed an overhauled domestic amateur-entry system that removes high school players from the draft, makes college players eligible after sophomore year, shortens the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, and cuts bonus pool from current $358.7M to $200M, sources tell ESPN.
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@PackTheRic @CBCJakeMck Yes. Definitely would. Better not be a late bloomer though. Or get hurt. Or fail a class. Or have a bad year “developing”.
Point being, a billion dollar corporation is putting the bill on college. That no program has turned a positive profit ever.
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@MSbaseball39 @CBCJakeMck Naturally, a higher concentration of talent at the D1 level (with the big time HS guys who would otherwise get drafted) naturally shifts the talent down the line
Which pushes guys down to different levels
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@danielb31841318 @BaseballAmerica They? Which ones are they?
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@BaseballAmerica And listening to college coaches they say the minors aren’t developing players. Probably some in both.
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College programs would gain the most elite upside players in any given draft class under MLB's latest CBA proposal.
However, most scouts aren't sold on offloading player development to colleges 👀
More here: buff.ly/31zl3BW
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@PackTheRic @CBCJakeMck Boom? Who is going to fund all the “high talented players” in the JUCO/NAIA/D2/D3 levels? You’re not getting “more players”, you’re getting the same number of players, less places to put them. Hence 240 players don’t get drafted per year with 20 rounds going to 12.
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@MSbaseball39 @CBCJakeMck There’s no way on earth more players (assumingely at the division 1 level) means JUCO baseball crumbles, especially not with the transfer portal
JUCO/NAIA/D2/D3 baseball would BOOM with this change
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@Jsudds44 Well, I don’t want to go there. IF, I was to get recruited, I hope they could HELP DEVELOP me to get to the Big Leagues.
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I heard directly from a Power 4 baseball coach “We are not in the player development business. We’ll just wait until they develop somewhere else and get them from the portal”
Greg Huss@OutOfTheVines
Because I haven’t seen/heard it said anywhere College Baseball is NOT in the player development business — they are in the winning business. “Potential” does not matter to coaches whose jobs are on the line each year. The sport is drastically different than minor league baseball
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@EarleyBurn False. But I appreciate the back and forth all day. Helped get through the work day. 0% this passes anyways. But who knows, we put a man on the moon, or did we?
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@MSbaseball39 It just makes the quality of the player that much better
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How anyone could dislike this is beyond me. Players would get developed without worrying about the financial worry of the MiLB. Food and housing provided AND the staff pays to develop the player AND NIL. Gets more pro ready players in the league too
Jeff Passan@JeffPassan
MLB today proposed an overhauled domestic amateur-entry system that removes high school players from the draft, makes college players eligible after sophomore year, shortens the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, and cuts bonus pool from current $358.7M to $200M, sources tell ESPN.
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@EarleyBurn And let college baseball get 105 scholarships like NCAA football does. This would go over like a lead balloon.
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@MSbaseball39 NFL worked out fine. You just want mlb teams to have more time with younger guys.
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@EarleyBurn Apples to Oranges. Name a single player in the MLB that could play any position other than kicker in the NFL right now? It’s a whole different animal. But fine, increase the MLB roster to 69 players like the NFL, sounds reasonable.
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@EarleyBurn Which school in all of NCAA D1-D3, NAIA, and JUCO that play baseball has a positive ROI currently? But, yes, you’re right let’s put more cost on them as well. Big League Scout? Yep, you’re unemployed. Single A manager climbing the ranks? Go to the house. 240 players cut out!
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@MSbaseball39 Ran out of characters. Making college baseball the main attraction will bring more people to tune into games when a player makes it pro. For example, tons of Texas A&M fans watch the white Sox now because of Braden Montgomery
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@EarleyBurn You’re comparing apples to oranges in MANY different avenues with baseball vs. football. But off the cuff, roster size being one. Longevity of a career would be another. A 19 year old can play in the MLB (Trout, Griffey, Griffin), a 19yo would get man handled,literally in NFL
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@MSbaseball39 Peoples tax dollars have been doing this for years my guy. All that would change is that more colleges would get quality players. Players won’t suffer, nfl players have had this thing for years
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@shegone03 @MLB I’m against the proposal. But that’s a hard take.
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The best college players would struggle in High A!
Keep pretending college players are nearly ready for the @MLB if you want!
They’re not!
#shegone
Josh Graham@JoshGrahamShow
Perhaps an unpopular opinion: It’s better for MLB if college baseball is the “new minor leagues.” Even though I love MiLB, the college game is a more accessible place for stars to build notoriety — and generate interest for the game — before they reach a big-league diamond.
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College baseball is BEGGING for this to happen
Jeff Passan@JeffPassan
MLB today proposed an overhauled domestic amateur-entry system that removes high school players from the draft, makes college players eligible after sophomore year, shortens the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, and cuts bonus pool from current $358.7M to $200M, sources tell ESPN.
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@EarleyBurn Actually not, D1 baseball only had 11.7 scholarships before this year. Now they have 34. Which HS players could get drafted. Which opens spots for others. Log jamming a system that’s already log jammed.
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@EarleyBurn So basically put it on the tax payers and not the multi-billion dollar owners of MLB?
*Most states pay taxes for STATE funded institutions, that give the scholarships, which is MOST of them.
*Also, IF that institution gives all 34 scholarships, which a lot do not.
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@MSbaseball39 No, but that is partly on me. I was saying that the colleges will invest in the player and the player doesn’t have to pay for anything. Yet he also will get NIL, that’s what I mean.
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@EarleyBurn Talent-wise, I agree. Financial-wise, I disagree. And I feel like your argument was about finances not talent.
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@MSbaseball39 Nah I just sucked at baseball my guy. But the sun belt is a power conference in baseball. Big 10 would be juco level
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@eastonfreeze Yes. PLEASE stick to writing about football. This is a thinking man’s game
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