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So if Timmy wins the job, does he automatically get on the list?

I think everyone gets credit for a RS with 2020 shutting down the season. So, they've got him down as a 4 year school junior, but he technically has two more seasons of eligibility despite being his third year playing. 2020 - cancelled, automatic RS year for everyone 2021 - RS Freshman year 2022 - RS Sophomore year

Absolute best draft possible for USF. By the numbers, all four of them should have been drafted by now. Rujano (234) and Snow (178) were listed as top 250 prospects by MLB. Showalter is Perfect Game's #81 HS prospect and Brutti is #108. Snow is the main prize of this class for us. This is from MLB.com's scouting report on him. If he winds up attending South Florida, he could become the Bulls' best position prospect since 2017 supplemental first-rounder Kevin Merrell.

Weird draft. Lots of guys going above projections and a ton of highly rated HS kids still on the board.

Kerkering to the Phillies in the 5th round. $368k slot value.

He's not on anyone's draft stuff I've seen and he's a RS So with tons of leverage. I can't imagine him going high enough this year to make him not want to come back next year and put this season behind him. Let's say he's on the board and someone is thinking of taking him 20th round or so (no idea if that's even accurate for him, just throwing a round out), that could be worth $50k-$100k. But, if he comes back and jumps 5-10 rounds, he could double or triple the money.

I left Snow off that list. He's going to get drafted in the 5-10 range, too.

Kerkering will go tomorrow somewhere in the 4-7 round range (probably on the latter end, if I were a betting man). Luis Rujano, Ben Brutti, and Zachary Showalter will all be drafted 3-10 as well. That's the 70/30 area of whether they'll ever see the campus. Most of our other major signings are 10+ round picks, or not at all, because the team who'd think of drafting them knows the money will be tough to sway them from college. Once you get into that part of the draft, it is a crapshoot. We've had a few guys drafted in the teens the last few years that turned it down. Chatfield, Zech, etc.

If I were a betting man, Timmy bolts, Byrum stays. Byrum hasn't had the taste of being the guy. McClain has.

Bohanon for his two years, then its either him or McClain.

You know what sports needs more of? Dads on Twitter with opinions about their kid. I can't see this being anything other than good for both Timmy and his dad.

I don't know... Stats don't jump out at you and its not like its hard to find a 6'2" pitcher who throws mid-90s these days. He throws harder as a reliever, not surprising. So that low to mid 90s as a starter jumps a bit to 95-97 out of the pen. They've got him with a 55 slider, so slightly above average and 50 for his FB, but I'd take that with an asterisks. That's probably going off his 93mph or so as a starter. That's not going to get it done these days unless you have some dynamite secondary pitches or you're a lefty. 97mph as a reliever works. Also, velocity has jumped soooooooo much the last few years, League average is 93.5. I'm not good with all the spin rate, mirror slot, etc. stuff these days, so I'm guessing there's a lot of that applied to him, too. TL/DR: Seems right. He looks like a guy who could make it to the majors and log a few years in someone's bullpen. That's really all you're asking for out of a pick in that round. I was on point a couple months ago. This seems to be the thing that stood out in his combine based on the article. Spin is the hip new thing. The smart baseball people have locked onto this and you don't see this watching a game. College is a little more, "throw your fastball to set up the other stuff" and MLB has transition into "throw your best pitch as much as possible." If his slider is spinning like the article says, he's going to go somewhere where they have him throw the **** out of that pitch 50%-60% of the time from the bullpen. You can't do that as a starter in college. We didn't necessarily misuse him, we just needed him to be more than a one inning guy throwing sliders for us. He was waaaaaay better than our next best option. If you've got three MLB pitchers in your rotation in college, you have the luxury of Kerkering in the bullpen.

Memphis is a shoe in... I remember @TigerJay

Trick question. We'll be in the same conference, but it will be worse.

Shane McClanahan walking fewer hitters, striking out more This story was excerpted from Adam Berry's Rays Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. He got "tired" of walking people.

This is easily the best article I've ever read on conference realignment.

It will end up being Cortes, because MLB thinks the country would rather watch the Yankees take a bus to the airport than any other team in the league play baseball.

You did willingly go to NGSC Sports. Can't go to Pollo Tropical and complain it isn't the Columbia.

Niiiiiiiiice... we're back to beaches and Publix in recruiting discussions. Next on the list is the Sunday, "Will we be ranked this week?" thread.

Gotcha... I saw the graphic and thought he just announced we were in his top 5.

Signed/committed or are we just top 5?

Take all the transfers. Especially if he has to sit this year, anyway.

All goes back to the point, it's not who you get to commit, it's who shows up on campus that counts. I can't give any of our coaches props for getting a guy who's going to go in the draft and sign. We're just his backup/bargaining chip in negotiations. That goes for everyone, not just Mohl.

14th overall and $2 million bonus.

We're probably going to lose 2-3 guys from this class. But we've had kids sign with us in the past with no intention of ever setting foot on campus. We were never going to get Tarnok or Garabitos. Hermann probably could have gone either way, but they gave him $135k to sign. Conticello got $500k. 2012: 1 - Walker Lockett 4th round 2015: 0 - but Zech (15th round), Chatfield (24th round), and McClanahan (26th round) were drafted out of HS and didn't sign 2016: 1 - Tobias Myers 6th round and Bodrato (24th round) and Sullivan (29th round) were drafted and didn't sign 2017: 1 - Freddy Tarnok 3rd round and Robinson (23rd round) and Sanchez (39th round) didn't sign 2018: 1 - Pablo Garabitos 25th round 2019: 0 - Mitchell (38th round) didn't sign out of HS 2021: 2 - Gavin Conticello 8th round and Sean Hermann 14th round