Baseball Recruiting Class

[MSU124]

I see that OM had 10 players signees drafted, compared to ours which had 2. (Southern even had 4) Is our class that weak or what?

 

[cowbells]

It's ok but nowhere near what is required to compete bigtime. It's probably the 9th best class in the conf.

 

[patdog]

it's not good enough. Not much better than a lot of Polk's classes were.

 

[OMlawdog]

I think MSU signed about 17-18 players that ended up on campus which is a lot, so it is not surprising that they signed a smaller class.

I would anticipate that MSU would sign a much larger class in 2012.

 

[Todd4State]

But I only counted eight guys that were Ole Miss signees that got drafted.

I'm using the Clarion-Ledger as my source- so that certainly could be wrong.

It also sounds like three of those signees will sign pro contracts. We'll see about that.

It's all going to come down to who signs and who goes to school as to how good the classes are. We could certainly lose Brandon Woodruff and Jacob Lindgren. We also could get them in school as well. Certainly the same could be said about Ole Miss's class. Trevor Fitts, Johnathan Holder, and Will Cox are also very solid players that weren't drafted, but will be good players in college. MSU also had a much smaller class and there is no doubt that having three straight losing seasons hurt us in recruiting. At the same time, we pulled in a guy that was a fifth round pick, which is the highest that any Cohen recruit at MSU has ever been drafted, and we pulled in a 12th round pick pitcher, which is the highest a high school pitching recruit has ever been drafted at MSU under Cohen.

The biggest difference between the players that we are getting now and what Polk was bringing in is we are getting players that are tough and have a good work ethic. They may not blow up the Perfect Game combine, but they're going to do things that help us win.

Back to what I said about having three losing seasons and it hurting us in recruiting- us competing for the SEC West, winning a regional and going to a Super Regional- those types of things also help recruiting. Players have to see that you're making tangible progress because not very many people want to be part of a rebuilding project. We've shown that this year. We'll see if it pays off for us in July.

 

[inforeb]

+++

 

[Todd4State]

About like this year- 10 or so players. We will have even fewer seniors next year. Reed, Statz and Brownlee. The Routt, Stratton, Pollorena, Graveman, Girodo, Busby, Watson, and Bracewell are draft eligible juniors and Norris and Bradford are draft eligible sophomores. Then we have two JUCO catchers coming in that will be draft eligible. I certainly don't expect us to lose all of those player to the draft next year.

I could see us losing 5-8 players next year to graduation or the draft.

The year after that will be a big class. We'll have the guys that don't get drafted or don't sign from the list above plus guys like Hunter Renfroe, Demarcus Henderson, Taylor Stark, Evan Mitchell, and Wes Rea.

 

[Todd4State]

They left off Chavez and Ellis.

 

[OMlawdog]

That is the first I have heard of it. I don't have the MLB draft rules memorized though.

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[bulldogcountry1]

<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">the draftability of an individual player has a lot to do with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I'm sure some coaches won't sign a guy if he shows a strong interest in going pro <cough><Polk>, and I'm sure some college signees tell scouts they are going to college, so don't bother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>All that can have a great effect on the perceived success of a signing class.</font></font></p>

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<font face="Courier New" size="2"></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New">Just because a HS player gets drafted doesn't always mean he is better than one that doesn't.</font></font></p>

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[RebelBruiser]

then obviously you're eligible after your sophomore year. Also, I believe there is some age rule that can come into play for college players making them eligible sooner.

I may be getting the name wrong, but I believe it was Zach Cox from Arkansas that was eligible for the previous year's draft despite only being a sophomore.

On the redshirt note, Will Kline I remember was drafted after his sophomore year. He had redshirted, but he chose to stay through his junior year, and he was drafted much higher that year.

 

[JabbatheGut1]

nm

 

[alabamadog]

if a prospect has a really early birthday he can go after two years in college.

 

[State82]

It was discussed on here a day or two ago that C.T. Bradford would be draft eligible next year because he would be 21 at the time of the draft. According to a poster here, he turned 20 this spring. So I would guess, and rightly so, that once you turn 21 you are free to do whatever you wish, as long as it is legal.

 

[Goat 4 Eva]

as others have said, it's about the numbers. ****, some of your obsession and self comparisons to Ole Miss really is boggling.<div>
</div><div>Same with the football class. Ole Miss signed a good group of players. So did we in my opinion. But everyone thinks they cleaned our clocks because C.J. Johnson switched. Sheep.</div>

 

[maroonmania]

4 signees drafted in the first 5 rounds. Had 3 of those drafted in the first 2 rounds. Will be interesting to see if they keep any of them.

 

[patdog]

they'll be damn lucky.