re: Bayou Bambino

Why are you losers posting to a thread about college baseball if you don’t care about it?

Saw plenty of Texas people posting about their women’s college softball team last year. Now that truly qualifies as a minor sport. TV ratings and attendance don’t lie.

He’s fat?

Is this the fat boi?

Tied with Vandy for most CWS appearances in the conference? LSU has been, let me check……. Oh yeah, 20 TIMES!

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only you realized how little everyone else cares about college baseball. LSU could go undefeated for the next 10 seasons and literally no one would care

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Damn.


LSU overtakes y'all in CWS titles and suddenly Texas doesn't care about the sport?


Sad thing to hear from a Blue Blood


ETA: y'all are 3rd all time in CWS titles with 6. Behind only LSU and USC (8 and 12 respectively).


Nobody else in the SEC comes close to catching you.

Start acting like the Big Dog y'all are.

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Don't forget sexually assaulted

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Speaking of…

LSU Settles Class Action Sexual Assault and Violence Lawsuit

Verge Ausberry Suspended For Ignoring Sexual Crimes Within LSU Athletic Program

Reek doesn’t care about college baseball!!!

Unless it has to do with LSU on a LSU website

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If only you realized how little everyone else cares about college baseball.

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It's the fastest growing sport. and it's been growing despite ESPN's reluctance to promote it at all.

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It's the fastest growing sport. and it's been growing despite ESPN's reluctance to promote it at all.

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and with some of the rumors circulating at what the next MLB CBA will look like, it may get absurdly good quickly. There's smoke about shrinking the draft again and even rumors of removing high school players being eligible for the draft. We'll see what happens, but the talent . level continues to get better and better with college baseball. Baseball finally getting full rides for everyone, the draft shrinking from 40 to 20 rounds already, NIL, college players having a faster track to the majors, etc have all been invaluable to the college game's growth.

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At OverSlotBaseball.com on Wednesday, Joe Doyle wrote an article free for all to read about how the league’s next Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) could end high school draft pick eligibility.

Part of the reason why is making further changes to the minor league system and length of the draft. In 2021, as Doyle notes, the draft shrunk by half, going from 40 rounds to 20 rounds. At the same time, the minor league system contracted as a chunk of the lower levels were extinguished.

In the next CBA, the draft could become even smaller, perhaps even down to 15 or 10 rounds as soon as the 2028 Draft while the minor leagues could further shrink, this time with the elimination of what is now referred to as Class A ball in 2030.

As logic would indicate—and Doyle spells out—fewer rounds of the draft + no Class A ball = less draft eligibility, specifically for high schoolers.

As Pete Campbell once said, “Not great, Bob!”

Not only would this eliminate more jobs at the lower levels of the organization, it would also force high school players to forego a potential guaranteed payday to attend college. And for how long? Would the college eligibility rules change, too, so that a player could enter the draft after his freshman year? Or would the player have to stay on campus longer?

It’s clear why this is on the table—the owners want to save as much money as possible. You may not become a billionaire by being a cheapskate, but evidently that’s how you stay a billionaire.

This not only hurts players, but it also hurts clubs like the Kansas City Royals, organizations that depend on drafting younger players and developing them over the years. It takes potentially great players off the board. If this rule currently existed, there would be no Bobby Witt Jr. in Kansas City.

I’ll note something Doyle makes clear in his column—this isn’t guaranteed. “To be sure, none of this is set in stone or agreed upon in any way yet,” Doyle writes.

For baseball fans, there are more pressing issues than this with upcoming labor talks. If the owners truly push for a salary cap, and it sounds like they will, it could be a long, ugly fight between the owners and the players that will certainly void games and perhaps the entire season.

Ending high school draft pick eligibility isn’t high on the list of fans’ concerns, but it will almost certainly affect how the Royals mold their future.

And not in a positive way.

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