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"there's a ton of research that show players coming out out of high school don't perform as well in the majors as those who go to college"

i'd like to see this research considering players like A-Rod and Reyes never went to college

6/7/2007 1:01:14 PM

It makes sense. College players are more fully developed and there is a higher % rate that they will be successful in the majors since they generally start out in A+ or AA ball. Kids out of high school are so far from fully developed that they are much more likely to a) get hurt; b) not live up to natural talent; and c) not physically develop as thought. Plus most high school draft picks start out in Rookie ball or A-.

The Latin America kids like Reyes sign as free agents through baseball academies a lot of the time. Reyes actually had a higher bid from the Cubs but chose the Mets because Omar Minaya was a scout at the time...

[Edited on June 7, 2007 at 1:15 PM. Reason : x]

6/7/2007 1:14:55 PM

take all the players in the majors that could have gone to college vs high school players and you will see that most of them went and played in college. If you take high school players most of the time they have to be developed in the minor leauge system also thats if they sign. Some high school kids go to college to improve there draft status.

6/7/2007 1:28:43 PM

^yeah i guess thats what i was getting at...since the MLB has such a vast minor league program with multilple levels, it seems that you could get just as prepared as playing college ball

Plus in minor league baseball, they actually use wooden bats and often can play against MLB competition down in AA or AAA to rehab an injury

6/7/2007 2:04:37 PM

on espn2 right now

6/7/2007 2:04:49 PM

Tim Kurkijan is probably jerking off right now

6/7/2007 2:06:59 PM

hahahaha, fuckin don zimmer

6/7/2007 2:11:16 PM

any updates for people without ESPN on TV right now

6/7/2007 3:13:39 PM

a kid from my high school just went #10 ....Madison Bumgarner

6/7/2007 3:16:32 PM

Brackman went to the YANKEES!!!

6/7/2007 4:52:32 PM

Yankees at #30

6/7/2007 4:52:40 PM

FUCK YES! YANKEES! I have even more reason to be a fan.

6/7/2007 4:52:53 PM

Ughhhhh...... anything but a Yankee.....

6/7/2007 4:53:11 PM

FUCK YES!!!!!

6/7/2007 4:56:35 PM

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"Brackman went to the YANKEES!!! "

6/7/2007 4:59:13 PM

ahah

6/7/2007 5:01:02 PM

I wish him no success until he gets traded for some 41 year old with a bad back, which is inevitable.

6/7/2007 5:01:28 PM

You knew the only team that would want to deal with Boras would be the Yankees. You just knew.

^ lol. or the clumsiest young gun from Florida. either or.

[Edited on June 7, 2007 at 5:03 PM. Reason : when's pedro coming back again? august? september? 2008?]

6/7/2007 5:01:51 PM

congrats brack

6/7/2007 5:04:34 PM

congrats but...ugg

[Edited on June 7, 2007 at 5:34 PM. Reason : double ugg]

6/7/2007 5:32:20 PM

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"I wish him no success until he gets traded for some 41 year old with a bad back, which is inevitable."

haha, i said somethin similar to marko.

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"(17:31:59) S4tUrn11: they'll trade him for some soon to be washed up vet within the week"

6/7/2007 5:36:40 PM

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"a kid from my high school just went #10 ....Madison Bumgarner"

kid is a stud

6/7/2007 5:41:46 PM

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"there's a ton of research that show players coming out out of high school don't perform as well in the majors as those who go to college"

That would be irrelevant to me, I'd want the guaranteed money.

Baseball players dont pan out at a very high percentage, so I'd take the $2-$3 million so Id be set for life rather than banking on a combination of luck, skill, and serious durability needed to get a huge major league contract ~10 years down the line (3-4 years of college, ~2-3 years of minor leagues, ~3-5 years to get a big deal)

[Edited on June 7, 2007 at 5:47 PM. Reason : a]

6/7/2007 5:46:33 PM

why did it have to be the Yankees

FUCKIN A!!

6/7/2007 5:51:31 PM

The shitty thing is he would have been the Mets pick at 29 based on what they've done in the past if they didn't lose the pick to the Giants for Alou...

V they actually have a better system now. Top 10 almost. Steinbrenner is too senile to demand trading 5 top prospects for old fucks so the baseball guys are making most of the decisions again.

[Edited on June 7, 2007 at 6:26 PM. Reason : x]

6/7/2007 6:22:05 PM

The Yankees have a farm system???
Aren't they the last team you'd wanna go to as a prospect?
Smells like trade bait.

6/7/2007 6:22:52 PM

He'll never pitch an inning for the NY Yankees, he'll get traded before he makes the bigs.

6/7/2007 6:28:18 PM

congrats Brack!

hate the Yanks, but hopefully he'll get traded before he starts striking out Yankee opponents

6/7/2007 7:24:53 PM

Matt Mangini goes to Seattle Mariners in the 2nd round, Number 52 overall

6/7/2007 8:33:16 PM

http://www.gopack.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&ATCLID=1152013

link talking about his signing with the yanks for $4.5 million guaranteed, plus incentives and such.

one interesting quote to think "what might have been"

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"At one point, they took a turn and Andrew was actually thinking about coming back to school. I talked to [basketball coach Sidney] Lowe about him playing basketball again. It was getting quite interesting for NC State. "

8/16/2007 8:11:21 AM

^ We're talking about Scott Boras (his agent) here -- this character would bust out Brackman's backup plan to be an astronaut if it garnered an extra five bucks

8/16/2007 8:16:28 AM

If Brackman can get back to throwing great again he could be up in the major's next year.

8/16/2007 8:56:34 AM