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All we are saying....
No spoken words said:I just could not watch JD Drew play baseball for a whole season.
speedracer said:I thought baseball players do that all the time, because college baseball players don't lose their eligibility if they are drafted.
speedracer said:I thought baseball players do that all the time, because college baseball players don't lose their eligibility if they are drafted.
1997: Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies
Drew was the second overall pick in the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies. Drew and his agent Scott Boras elected not to sign with the Phillies, sticking to their guarantee that they would not sign for less than $10 million dollars. The Phillies had no plan to pay an unproven player this amount of money, and despite Boras' warnings, drafted Drew nonetheless. Consequently, Drew ended up playing for the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League.
No spoken words said:Neither will U2Kitten, who, I think, at that time, was inventing the monorail. Or was it the hybrid car? I forget.
Can you call it an Eli Manning if John Elway did it 2 decades prior? (nsw beat me to it but I had to emphasize it)zoney! said:
Make that TWO BoSox who pulled an Eli Manning-like move during the baseball draft! (Can you call it an Eli Manning if they did it before Eli?).
Actually he originally parlayed it into 1 year, $8mil with the Cubs and Nomar had to prove himself healthy again before getting the "big" deal with LA.speedracer said:Oh, I agree that players get burned by greedy agents all the time. (And it's not just rookies and early NBA draft entrants -- anybody remember how Nomar's agent parlayed a 4 year/$60M offer from Boston into 3 years/$27M and a move to first base with LA?)
Hewson said:Can you call it an Eli Manning if John Elway did it 2 decades prior? (nsw beat me to it but I had to emphasize it)
As mentioned above, it actually happens quite often in baseball.
Lotta players are drafted out of high school, weigh their options and go to college instead then re-enter the draft.
Hewson said:As mentioned above, it actually happens quite often in baseball.
Lotta players are drafted out of high school, weigh their options and go to college instead then re-enter the draft.
I was actually referring more to your despisal of Varitek.zoney! said:
I am glad we all have mentioned that people go back to college all of the time and have over looked my post about J.D. Drew and Harrington!
Oh, by the way, people go back to college all the time after being drafted.
Hewson said:I was actually referring more to your despisal of Varitek.
Everyone knows about Drew and what he did...but his is a rare case, a case like Varitek's is fairly common.
zoney! said:
I am glad we all have mentioned that people go back to college all of the time and have over looked my post about J.D. Drew and Harrington!
Oh, by the way, people go back to college all the time after being drafted.
Enrolled at Wasamatta U instead of signing with the Smelldgers.Chizip said:i heard u2kitten was the first to do it
speedracer said:
Would you change your opinion of Drew if he had signed a free-agent deal in Japan instead of some chumpy unaffiliated minor league?