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re: So who's baseball signing class is getting roughed up by the draft?
Posted on 6/10/16 at 3:05 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
Posted on 6/10/16 at 3:05 pm to CtotheVrzrbck
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I'm and old stick in the mud. I prefer sports to work similar to the real world.
Go to college, hone your craft/trade for 3 years, if you're a top candidate go early after Jr. year and make your money.
The thing about baseball - particularly pitchers - is that we are learning, generally speaking, an arm has a set number of pitches in it. A top pitching prospect like Riley Pint who is hitting 100mph as an 18 year old is probably better spent going straight into a minor league system, getting his pitches in, and getting to the big leagues with the fewest number of pitches on that arm as possible. Unlike the other sports, baseball has the minor leagues that provide the ideal environment to hone their craft. If a kid goes to college for 3 years and puts all those throws on that arm there, and then is drafted after his junior year, and then starts out in the minors, he's got that many more throws on his arm before he hits the bigs.
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Posted on 6/10/16 at 4:13 pm to BenHOGan
If I'm a HS baseball player and I get offered 500k or more to go pro I'm going pro. Just to much guarenteed money to say no. Pint will get close to 5 mil guarentee no matter what happens to his arm after he signs. He would be a fool to say no
Posted on 6/10/16 at 4:16 pm to BenHOGan
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The thing about baseball - particularly pitchers - is that we are learning, generally speaking, an arm has a set number of pitches in it.
but the kid would probably get more pitches in the minors than in college (assuming he went to a program that takes care of their pitchers arms). mostly I watch LSU but our starters get about 7 days rest between starts and generally don't go over 100 pitches. statistically you may be correct about the life span of a pitchers arm but your premise of that's why they go pro out of high school isn't. they go pro out of high school because they get millions of dollars signing bonus and generally their college payed for if it doesn't work out.
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