Comments on: Baseball Draftermath http://www.observingcasually.com/baseball-draftermath/ A web magazine that covers a world of topics every week. New articles published daily. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:49:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: kosmo http://www.observingcasually.com/baseball-draftermath/comment-page-1/#comment-545 kosmo Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:33:47 +0000 http://www.observingcasually.com/?p=984#comment-545 Patt, Yes, that is correct. College seniors do not need to sign befoe the August deadline. They are the only set of draftees who are not subject to this deadline. Not only does this deadline give more leverage to the MLB teams (as agents can't stall things out through the winter) but it also avoids having college coaches lose their star players at the last moment (January, for example) with no ability to replace them with another player. Patt,
Yes, that is correct. College seniors do not need to sign befoe the August deadline. They are the only set of draftees who are not subject to this deadline.

Not only does this deadline give more leverage to the MLB teams (as agents can’t stall things out through the winter) but it also avoids having college coaches lose their star players at the last moment (January, for example) with no ability to replace them with another player.
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]]> By: patti http://www.observingcasually.com/baseball-draftermath/comment-page-1/#comment-543 patti Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:11:03 +0000 http://www.observingcasually.com/?p=984#comment-543 Hi Kosmo. First time visitor here. I came upon your site from the comment you left on ProBlogger. I have a question re the MLB draft. Re your statement quoted below, if you could explain it further: 'Scheppers would have actually made a lot of sense at the tail end of the first round. He is the equivalent of a college senior, and teams would not have been subject to the August 15 deadline to sign him. They could have waited until right before the 2010 draft to make a really serious offer.' Do the rules state that if a player is a college senior they do not have to sign by the August deadline? So this would only apply to Juniors? I am interested in college baseball, this is actually my first year really getting into the details. By the way, I will bookmark your site. Very interesting! Hi Kosmo. First time visitor here. I came upon your site from the comment you left on ProBlogger. I have a question re the MLB draft. Re your statement quoted below, if you could explain it further:

‘Scheppers would have actually made a lot of sense at the tail end of the first round. He is the equivalent of a college senior, and teams would not have been subject to the August 15 deadline to sign him. They could have waited until right before the 2010 draft to make a really serious offer.’

Do the rules state that if a player is a college senior they do not have to sign by the August deadline? So this would only apply to Juniors? I am interested in college baseball, this is actually my first year really getting into the details.

By the way, I will bookmark your site. Very interesting!
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