Unconquered

I am admittedly ignorant on FSU baseball, so I'll take your word that all of this is normal. TOS seemed like us being a good team next year would be extremely unlikely. So I was skeptical. No reason to think some true FR can't contribute ASAP, like Martin.

TOS also said we wouldn't be hosting regionals this year, at the end of last year.

Just want to comment on the drafting vs. no draft part. I don't think we should use that as a judge of talent. Many players will be called in various round during the draft by teams to see if they are interested in playing MLB or going to school, or how much money it would take to have them bypass school. Sometimes, teams will just not even draft a player because their commitment to attending college is just that strong where as, they would have been taken within the top 10-15 rounds.

There are plenty of examples of this, and players being taken WAY below their rating because teams just know they are going to school. Look at Winston, he should have been top 3 rounds easy, but teams know he is going to FSU and since they weren't going to take him in the mid to high 1st there almost became no point. The only reason Texas took him in the 15th was to see if they could sell him on playing Football during the year and for the Rangers during the summers. They didn't even try and talk him out of FSU.

Guys like Skye Bolt, a UNC commit who is so set on school he wasn't drafted until the 26th round, but is another top 2 round pick. Lucky UNC right? Tucker Simpson, a 6-7 pitcher who throws in the mid 90's, wasn't even drafted and is going to UF. Again, lucky us huh?

These are just a couple of examples I wanted to point out from this year. Don't sell some of our commits short saying they weren't drafted. Guys like Ryan Valdes could have been drafted, but might have just chosen to tell the teams to skip them.

Check out this list of Perfect Game all-americans and see all the ones who weren't even drafted and see what kind of players they are in their profiles. There are some real studs there. We just happened to be on the wrong end of it this year.

We are bringing in a lot of talent still, despite the draft. In order to continue to do that, you have to sign the best. Unfortunately, by doing so, you run the risk of losing many of them to the draft. But when you do sign several top talents, some of them will elect to go to school. This is the first class that I have seen us sign that was truely elite. We lost several players because of their ability, but we are also brining in some top talents too. I will reiterate that this is still, despite the losses, the best class that we have signed since I have followed FSU baseball. Hopefully they develop into great players too.

There's nothing. You just have to wait until they get on campus.

It's all about marketing. These parents pay money to have their kids at PG events and showcases and scouts flock to them since they can get a look at many players all in one place. Their may be guys just as talented around the country, but this is easier for teams to scout the players and know they are making a pretty good pick in higher rounds as they see them against higher competition. Prospectwire is a similar site who does these showcase type events. Despite the reputation, I am sure I would do the same as a parent in their position.

I get that. But, parents aren't paying for a favorable evaluation, they are paying to be seen by scouts. The clubs make their own evaluations that apparently line up pretty closely to Perfect Game's evaluations. Very seldom are talented players underlooked anymore. It just doesn't happen in todays society. The MLB acknowledged this during the draft.

Perfect Game offers a service to be seen ny scouts, whether they are drafted or not comes down tovthier performance, not perfect Game rating. It just happens that perfect Game does a good job in evaluations.

They're going to get the top guys right. The no-brainers. After that, it's how many tournaments/showcases of theirs you go to. Part of that is corrupt, and part of it is that there are just too many players, and they don't have any sort of scouting outside of their camps and showcases. If a player who isn't a top 10 round pick doesn't go to any of their stuff, they don't rate that player.

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it's how kids like parker brunelle and ohmed danesh get rated so high