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AuricGoldfinger wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 10:21 pm FWIW Aria Gerson is reporting that all current Vandy player draftees have signed except Grayson Moore.

AuricGoldfinger wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 10:21 pm FWIW Aria Gerson is reporting that all current Vandy player draftees have signed except Grayson Moore.

commadore wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:13 pm

AuricGoldfinger wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 10:21 pm FWIW Aria Gerson is reporting that all current Vandy player draftees have signed except Grayson Moore.

May be, but they are not yet showing on Draft Tracker. Even now.

Versus75 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:53 am MLB Draft Tracker now shows all the drafted Vanderbilt players have signed.

Nothing yet on White or Clemmey.

(how do I enter a Fingers-Crossed emoji?)

AuricGoldfinger wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 10:55 pm Clemmey signed today.

geeznotagain wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:54 pm There’s got to be a way to handle this whole commit/draft/sign process that treats the colleges more fairly.

katmai wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 8:43 am

geeznotagain wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:54 pm There’s got to be a way to handle this whole commit/draft/sign process that treats the colleges more fairly.

That's not really MLB's problem, and I think the 3 year wait if they don't sign out of high school is a huge gift to the colleges. The way it is set up now, if your recruits are drafted in the first 10 rounds, that is an almost certain signal that they will sign, because clubs don't want to waste those picks and lose the draft allotment on players they aren't pretty certain that they can sign.

Junnah wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:53 pm That’s a good question.
It seems there’s always been a zone at which the chances of landing a prospect, on either side (school or MLB), fall off. When colleges secure one of these players who go the less expected route after being drafted in a high round (Beede, Alvarez for example) it can be a real advantage so it’s hard to imagine college coaches aren’t going to try.
I’m curious to see how NIL shifts that zone. I could see aggressive college programs picking off a few players each year, “keeping them” in the fold with comp that pushes the lower boundary of the zone up toward the higher rounds.

Junnah wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:53 pm That’s a good question.
It seems there’s always been a zone at which the chances of landing a prospect, on either side (school or MLB), fall off. When colleges secure one of these players who go the less expected route after being drafted in a high round (Beede, Alvarez for example) it can be a real advantage so it’s hard to imagine college coaches aren’t going to try.
I’m curious to see how NIL shifts that zone. I could see aggressive college programs picking off a few players each year, “keeping them” in the fold with comp that pushes the lower boundary of the zone up toward the higher rounds.

commadore wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 2:03 pm

Junnah wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:53 pm That’s a good question.
It seems there’s always been a zone at which the chances of landing a prospect, on either side (school or MLB), fall off. When colleges secure one of these players who go the less expected route after being drafted in a high round (Beede, Alvarez for example) it can be a real advantage so it’s hard to imagine college coaches aren’t going to try.
I’m curious to see how NIL shifts that zone. I could see aggressive college programs picking off a few players each year, “keeping them” in the fold with comp that pushes the lower boundary of the zone up toward the higher rounds.

And when they offer $2.3 million on a slot value if $1.4, we aren't going to get many of those.