re: So who's baseball signing class is getting roughed up by the draft?

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I'm and old stick in the mud. I prefer sports to work similar to the real world.

Go to college, hone your craft/trade for 3 years, if you're a top candidate go early after Jr. year and make your money.

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The thing about baseball - particularly pitchers - is that we are learning, generally speaking, an arm has a set number of pitches in it. A top pitching prospect like Riley Pint who is hitting 100mph as an 18 year old is probably better spent going straight into a minor league system, getting his pitches in, and getting to the big leagues with the fewest number of pitches on that arm as possible. Unlike the other sports, baseball has the minor leagues that provide the ideal environment to hone their craft. If a kid goes to college for 3 years and puts all those throws on that arm there, and then is drafted after his junior year, and then starts out in the minors, he's got that many more throws on his arm before he hits the bigs.