re: Lottery scholarships and college baseball programs

I'm not sure of all the guys on it this season, but I saw the list of them last year and there were a couple of guys who wouldn't have gotten a sniff at a real baseball scholarship from Tulane otherwise.

And you can believe what you want about the Tulane program. I'll admit they've struggled, but they've had some bad luck with injuries and IMO really getting screwed out of an Ncaa bid a couple times. If you think they haven't had talent I'm going to guess you don't keep up with the team.
The talent may be down, but they don't have a bunch of bad
baseball players.
Had a couple top 10 round picks and had another who dropped past there because of an injury last year.

They also brought in a top 25 recruiting class this year.