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Post by joecool on Jun 14, 2017 9:33:39 GMT -8
Picked by the Diamondbacks.
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Post by jdogge on Jun 14, 2017 9:47:19 GMT -8
Picked by the Diamondbacks. He should come to OSU. Odds of making it to the bigs are very, very low. |
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Post by joecool on Jun 14, 2017 9:51:15 GMT -8
Picked by the Diamondbacks. He should come to OSU. Odds of making it to the bigs are very, very low. That's true, but no promise of getting drafted again in three years. Opportunity is there right now. |
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Post by mbabeav on Jun 14, 2017 10:22:06 GMT -8
Hopefully he will be a Beaver, but congrats to you, Kevin, for getting a shot at something a lot of us could only dream about. What a choice, either play for the #1 program in College, or go to the pros.
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Post by beavadelic on Jun 14, 2017 12:53:39 GMT -8
I'm unabashedly biased about the OSU experience, but honestly believe that anyone remotely interested in school should go play college ball when he's drafted that late.
I know there's like 150 rounds in the draft (slight exaggeration here), so the 18th round is solid, but when a team takes a guy that late they are definitely not projecting "can't miss". It may be true that the kid won't go higher in 3 years, but if that's the situation there is little chance that he'd get much done in a farm system riding buses to I isolated burgs on the rubber chicken circuit.
The money is not special at that point, and I just feel that for all but the cream minor league ball just isn't any better than quality college ball until the 3A level. When I go to watch a game in Volcano Stadium, I generally feel that I'm watching better baseball in Corvallis in April than either team produces there.
Bottom line, IMO, having your name called in rounds 15-30 as a high school senior is a great starting reference point for these kids to get ready for the draft in 3 years. If a kid is a non-student, maybe jumping to the minors is better (and each kid's situation is different no matter where they're drafted), but when it's one of a handful of programs in the country (of which OSU is one) the college choice is going to be better nearly every time. Again, this is just my opinion.
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Post by ochobeavo on Jun 14, 2017 13:13:54 GMT -8
For whatever it's worth, Watson is going to be playing for the Corvallis Knights this summer (unless he suddenly changes his mind after today). another incoming recruit Kevin Claunch - catcher from Vacaville in CA will be here along with Tyler Malone, Eliott Willy and Zak Taylor.
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