@TPM posted:For what?
Two mid D1 players playing at programs that likely were not fully funded but drafted, does not prove that this is the future of MLB.
This is a cost effective practice for a lot of programs, you know 2 for the price of 1. I was not referring to MLB teams.
But you are welcome.
Bummer.
@DD 2024 posted:Bummer.
One thing that I would like to say is that there probably could be real 2 way guys getting drafted, but it's a very big task to take on in college and a MLB manager would need to commit to all that needs to be done because you don't want your million $$$ pitcher to get injured while hitting, unless you can invent some type of steal batting gloves!!!
@TPM posted:One thing that I would like to say is that there probably could be real 2 way guys getting drafted, but it's a very big task to take on in college and a MLB manager would need to commit to all that needs to be done because you don't want your million $$$ pitcher to get injured while hitting, unless you can invent some type of steal batting gloves!!!
My son likely broke a batters hand the other night on a HBP. Scary enough for a position guy, could be career ending if he had been a pitcher.
I'm interested to see what happens to Jac. He is a great hitter, but struggled some at 1st. He throws the ball really hard/fast, but struggles at times with location. Do you draft him and hope you can make him a great first baseman due to the stick or do you draft him and hope you can make him a great LHP? I don't think anyone can fix both unless Sully and crew do somebody a great favor and fix one this coming year. Sully has the ability to do it but maybe not the time.
If son's dominant batting stance was from left side and not right side, I think he would have hit some but staff is not willing to have him bat right handed and show his left side to SEC pitching. They value him more for his pitching in tough situations than his hitting and many of the 2 way guys will be the same. The club will value them more for one or the other, and 90% of the time that is their pitching as I assume it will be for Jac. And you can negotiate all you want before hand and ask all the questions beforehand but once you are drafted and signed, they can pretty much do what they want.
You need to stop worrying about Jac Caglianone.
@Iowamom23 posted:My son likely broke a batters hand the other night on a HBP. Scary enough for a position guy, could be career ending if he had been a pitcher.
In HS my son DID injure a senior pitcher's finger in a HBP during a scrimmage before the start of the HS season. So the kid couldn't pitch that year - which he might not have done anyway, because he threw so hard there was no catcher who could catch him. He was usually the catcher and a decent hitter. Fortunately the damage wasn't permanent, he went to a mid-major college as a pitcher and was drafted! To think how that HS season might have gone...
