Lindgren selected

[57stratdawg]

#55 to the New York Yankees

 

[hatfieldms]

Awesome. I can continue pulling for him

....

 

[CadaverDawg]

Yep, and Ole Miss's top 2 recruits have been picked as well.

Am I the only one that thinks the way the draft works in baseball is all around screwed up? They draft before the CWS even starts....you can be drafted by one team out of Highschool and a different one after your Junior and Senior year....and MLB teams can screw you hard if you're a Senior, so it makes players want to leave early so they have leverage. Is there not a better system?

Not only that, but they said Lindgren could be pitching relief for the Yankees this year as one of the first drafted players to make it to the bigs. I bet Gavin Collins was quietly celebrating that Lindgren won't be back.

 

[thf24]

I completely agree. I think going the way of basketball and putting a minimum age on the draft would do a lot of good for both the players and college teams; not as many burnouts who made poor decisions coming out of high school, more value on veteran college players, and higher quality college baseball. I would think the problem would be that there wouldn't be nearly as much incentive to do so for the MLB as there is for the NBA.

 

[Del B Vista]

I think it's more likely (but not actually likely) that it goes the other way, and basketball switches to a model like baseball, where once you start college you have to go for three years. High school basketball players could enter the draft, then decide not to go pro, but lock themselves into college for the next three years. (Or two at a JUCO.)

I think that's a better solution, anyway. I don't really understand why it makes sense that an 18-year-old's ability to earn a living playing in the NBA can be collectively bargained away by a group that player's not a member of. A minimum age helps college teams, but I think there's been some pretty substantial research that players develop faster in the NBA than in college.

 

[Skid Marx.sixpack]

Nice!

 

[57stratdawg]

Vandy had a couple of commits get drafted including that kid from Miami we wanted.

 

[patdog]

Not much way to hold off on the draft until after the CWS. That would delay every rookie's first seas on by almost a month. And it's already been delayed by 4 months (from the start of spring training) for them to finish school. As for the system favoring a player leaving after 3 years, I think if a player has any aspirations at pro ball, he needs to make it his full time job by then anyway. There's only so much you can do to develop as a player in a short 60-game season with practice restrictions for 9 months out of the year. He should be within 30-40 hours of graduating by then anyway, close enough to finish up later if pro ball doesn't work out.

 

[patdog]

I think I've seen where the NBA is looking at changing the 1-year rule to a 2-year rule. That's a step in the right direction. As much as I loved having Dontae Jones back in 96, 1-year players are very bad for college basketball.