re: Official MLB Draft Thread (LSU Players and Signees) June 6th

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NOLA Gone
Miami: #167 5th round

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Congrats to Nola! Lets finish out a great career.

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Did wet delatte just go?

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No, it was Brad Delatte from Nicholls. He's the one that started the game a few years ago when they went Johnny Wholestaff and beat us.
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Bonvillain was on the Nicholls team as well, but didn't throw in that game.

ETA: Nevermind, Bonvillain was a freshman on the next years Nicholls team.

Deadline is July 13 this year

I'm getting my hopes up

Alright guys 5 rounds down, LSU looking good so far. No suprises thus yet, I will be out till 3:45 so the first page will updated then.

Play nice!

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I'm getting my hopes up

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I am too. I can't say that I'm overly surprised, but it's starting to look real promising. His finger injury was the best thing to happen to LSU This kid was considered one of the best hitters in this class before his injury. I know it's Germans, but IDGAF. I'm passing time.

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WILD CARD: Alex Bregman, c/ss, Albuquerque Academy. Bregman is without a doubt the best baseball prospect in New Mexico. He also may be the most unsignable as he is heavily committed to attending college at Louisiana State—a stance that was almost-assuredly reaffirmed when Bregman broke a finger on a bad-hop ground ball in pre-game practice prior to the fifth game of the 2012 season, and was lost for two months. With so little time remaining to properly scout and evaluate him before the draft, it seems unlikely that any team will be able to pay him the kind of signing bonus (probably the equivalent of first- or second-round money) that it would take to pry Bregman away from LSU.

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1. ALEX BREGMAN, c/ss, Albuquerque Academy
Bregman first gained national attention when he was named USA Baseball’s 2010 Player of the Year (an award that had been most-recently won by current big-leaguers Justin Smoak in 2009 and Stephen Strasburg in 2008) for his part in leading the program’s 16-and-under national team to a gold medal at the 2010 Pan American championships in Mexico. Bregman hit .574-2-17 in nine games during the tournament. A year later, he won another gold medal as a member of USA Baseball’s gold-medal-winning, 18-and-under team at the IBAF World Junior Championship. Beyond all his international accomplishments, Bregman had already firmly established himself as the elite hitting prospect in his home state, and one of the best in the country, by batting .678 as a junior for Albuquerque Academy, while setting a state single-season record with 19 home runs. Bregman was primed for a big senior season, especially since he would be making the conversion from shortstop to catcher, but never got on track as he broke the middle finger on his throwing hand on a bad hop in pre-game drills prior to the fifth game, though still played in the contest and went 3-for-4. A day later, the break was discovered. He was finally cleared to play again in time for the New Mexico state playoffs the second week of May. While Bregman’s powerful righthanded bat is a well-known quantity, scouts are less certain about his future position Though his progress behind the plate was compromised this spring by his untimely injury, he flashed solid catch-and-throw skills in limited looks, especially a very quick release, and his take-charge approach seems to make the position a natural fit. Bregman’s makeup and aptitude for the game are considered off-the-charts by scouts, and it seems just a matter of time until he settles into a new position, rather than a question of whether he might be able to handle it.

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Bregman first gained national attention when he was named USA Baseball’s 2010 Player of the Year (an award that had been most-recently won by current big-leaguers Justin Smoak in 2009 and Stephen Strasburg in 2008)

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wow

wow, he's big time

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wow, he's big time

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Yeah. Should be a fantastic college player. Will be immediately needed in our IF and has the experience against top notch talent to step right in.