re: Baseball Recruiting Discussion

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JW at 247 thinks we're going to (at this point in time) sign all 3 of our Top50 guys:
No. 17 OF Kyle Jacobsen
No. 38 UTIL Noah Campbell
No. 42 RHP Hunter Ruth
If that happens that would be amazing. Personally, I'm always weary of us signing any Top50 guys b/c often they're drafted in the top 10 Rds.

We need to do whatever is necessary to keep Coach Jerry Meyers. He's put together another elite and Pitching class for '17. He identified rising Pitchers early and several of them shot up the rankings this year or earned AA Honors.
No. 42 RHP Hunter Ruth - shot up 154 spots int he rankings.
Then these guys below all moved up a good bit in the rankings.
No. 224 RHP Brady Scott (Powder Springs, Ga./Mt. Paran Christian) He's 6'6" 260 lbs and only getting stronger.
No. 227 RHP Carmen Mlodzinski(Hilton Head/Hilton Head) Has a top 3% FB for HS RHP's.
No. 255 LHP Tyler Mettetal (South Elgin, Ill./St. Charles North)
No. 330 RHP Shane Roberts (Jupiter, Fla./William T. Dwyer)
No. 394 LHP Chase WIlliamson (Lexington/Lexington) - has a top 1% FB for HS LHP's, and went from an Honorable Mention to 3rd Team Underclassmen All American. JW thinks the way his stock is moving that he might sign an MLB contract before our Top50 guys.

Meyers is bringing in some power Lefty's and elite Pitchers who are going to make sure the '16 to '17 season's production isn't a complete dropoff. (We'll be Elite in Pitching nationally in '16 with Schmidt, Crowe, Hill, Johnson, Haire and company, but Schmidt and Crowe (and possibly Johnson) are most likely leaving after '16.) Meyers is probably one of the best recruiting and coaching Pitching Coaches in college ball.

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Right now it looks like we'll only lose one prospect from the 2017 class to the draft: C Luis Campusano-Bracero was picked early in the 2nd Rd. (39th overall) by the Padres, where his projected slot is around $1.7 mil. Campusano-Bracero was a late addition to the class, and was committed to Missouri for quite awhile, but wasn't being shown the love by the recent staff and re-opened his recruitment back up. He might not have been expecting to play college ball anyways, as he was a top 40 national rated player by most online sources, and tabbed the #1 catcher prospect out of high school by some of them.

As for the above: Kyle Jacobsen - haven't seen if he has been drafted, but reports are that he's already announced he's signing with USC and coming to play. Perhaps he waited to see if he'd make the top 3 rounds, because he waited to make the announcement this morning. EDIT: he was drafted by the Brewers in the 33rd Rd...

Noah Campbell - was drafted 111th overall in the 19th Rd., but he's also stated that he's coming to play at USC "100%"...

Carmen Mlodzinski - per The State, Mlodzinski told MLB teams last weekend that "he wouldn't sign if drafted":

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“I just felt more comfortable with college at this point,” Mlodzinski told the website. “I didn’t think I was fully ready to be a professional.”

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Also, LHP commit Corey Stone was drafted in the 27th Rd. (824th overall): I would expect him to come to USC as well....