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Post by chinmusic on Jun 6, 2018 17:01:16 GMT -8
With high school players that hold college grants in aid to play college baseball, putting dollar minimums on draft money, fewer are being drafted, preferring to get a start on their education and play college ball for 3 years. We have seen that frequently in the last 4 draft classes beginning with known cases with Madrigal, Grenier, Gambrell, Rutschman, Abel, and others.
In the Beaver's 2015 class we lost an 8th round selection, Shorecrest LHP Ian Oxnevad when the Cardinals offered 3rd round money ($500,000) and again in 2017 when Beaverton's 18th round section Kevin Walker was offered 4th round money ($400,000) by the Diamondbacks.
This year, Arizona SS Jayce Easley was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 5th round (Slot of $347,000). If Texas needs to sweeten that pot, I would be seriously thinking of losing him.
Post Falls, Idaho LHP Jacob Pfennings was drafted in the 38th round by the Padres. With any money coming from the San Diego pool, I think we are reasonably safe here. Pfennings may still be considering a baseball/basketball double. A 6-7 high scoring wing man, he was Idaho's Gatorade Player of the Year and has 4 or 5 D-1 offers.
Break the worry beads out for Easley.
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Post by zeroposter on Jun 6, 2018 17:09:27 GMT -8
The 2017 draft had only 3 players from the first 10 rounds who didn't sign. Drew was one of the 3, and that was club choice. Easley is a player who could make money by playing college ball for 3 years. Highly doubtful.
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Post by ostate on Jun 6, 2018 17:36:40 GMT -8
Both of these guys could go from hundreds of thousands today, to millions in three years... Tough choice for a kids...
Easley's brother was drafted out of high school and went (dad was a long-time mlb and a one-time all-star) and could sway his decision either way... Hope comes knowing his position may be open for competition... I think he comes to Corvallis (gut, and hope)...
I think Pfennings goes pro, but I think he could make allot more money in 3 years with Yeskie coaching him and the exposure that the Beaver program can bring...
Good luck to them both...
Missed here Dukart, I think he comes to Corvallis (I really hope so)...
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Post by kersting13 on Jun 6, 2018 20:49:07 GMT -8
With high school players that hold college grants in aid to play college baseball, putting dollar minimums on draft money, fewer are being drafted, preferring to get a start on their education and play college ball for 3 years. We have seen that frequently in the last 4 draft classes beginning with known cases with Madrigal, Grenier, Gambrell, Rutschman, Abel, and others. In the Beaver's 2015 class we lost an 8th round selection, Shorecrest LHP Ian Oxnevad when the Cardinals offered 3rd round money ($500,000) and again in 2017 when Beaverton's 18th round section Kevin Walker was offered 4th round money ($400,000) by the Diamondbacks. This year, Arizona SS Jayce Easley was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 5th round (Slot of $347,000). If Texas needs to sweeten that pot, I would be seriously thinking of losing him. Post Falls, Idaho LHP Jacob Pfennings was drafted in the 38th round by the Padres. With any money coming from the San Diego pool, I think we are reasonably safe here. Pfennings may still be considering a baseball/basketball double. A 6-7 high scoring wing man, he was Idaho's Gatorade Player of the Year and has 4 or 5 D-1 offers. Break the worry beads out for Easley. The Rangers drafted 6 HS players, 2 college juniors, a JC, and one college senior in the top 10. That's a lot of HS kids and only 1 college senior to steal bonus slot money from. The Padres had 11 picks in the first 10 rounds and selected 3 HS players, 3 college seniors, and 5 juniors, which seems more typical to me. They could conceivably save some of their top 10 bonus money to use on kids in the 11-40 round group, but I don't know how big of a target Pfennings is. SaveSave |
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Post by ochobeavo on Jun 7, 2018 8:44:22 GMT -8
I think Pfennings goes pro, but I think he could make allot more money in 3 years with Yeskie coaching him and the exposure that the Beaver program can bring...
Good luck to them both... Missed here Dukart, I think he comes to Corvallis (I really hope so)... Too lazy to go find it, but Pfennigs was interviewed after being drafted & said he's still coming to Corvallis in the fall. |
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Post by obf on Jun 7, 2018 11:50:16 GMT -8
Both of these guys could go from hundreds of thousands today, to millions in three years... Tough choice for a kids... Easley's brother was drafted out of high school and went (dad was a long-time mlb and a one-time all-star) and could sway his decision either way... Hope comes knowing his position may be open for competition... I think he comes to Corvallis (gut, and hope)... I think Pfennings goes pro, but I think he could make allot more money in 3 years with Yeskie coaching him and the exposure that the Beaver program can bring... Good luck to them both... Missed here Dukart, I think he comes to Corvallis (I really hope so)... I would expect the exact opposite.... I would advise Easley to take the 350K and get started on his pro career... Pfennings should too if the Pads can scrounge 350K to give him... but they can't... I assume Pfennings will be here and Easley will not |
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Post by mauibeav on Jun 7, 2018 12:05:25 GMT -8
I heard Dukart isn't going to play baseball next year and just focus on football at first. Doesn't mean that he won't try down the road.
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Post by zeroposter on Jun 12, 2018 9:25:16 GMT -8
As expected, Easley signs.
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Post by ochobeavo on Jun 12, 2018 9:46:09 GMT -8
As expected, Easley signs. Slot $347K, signed for $500K |
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Post by mtbeaver on Jun 13, 2018 12:52:05 GMT -8
I think this is just one of many areas that Pat Casey and staff excell at. They have a great feel on who is highly draft likely and they don't pursue them. Other teams seem to load up on recruits who never step foot on campus.
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Post by badwack on Jun 15, 2018 17:22:07 GMT -8
How the question is, who plays SS next year?
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Post by orangeblood on Jun 16, 2018 7:13:22 GMT -8
Beau Philip
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