Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post

In our evaluation process, we've got to get better and finding the 3rd-5th round HS position player that will end up in school and we can develop into a 1st rounder.

We did that with Westburg, Foscue, and Rooker but we've signed too many Blaze Jordan's, Austin Hendricks, James Woods types and missed out on the 3rd-5th rounder due to that.

Our evaluation process needs to be refined
Yep, we need to be much better at understanding the mentality of the position players we recruit. If I remember correctly Blaze Jordan fell to the 3rd round but probably would have signed with a team if he had gone anywhere in the Top 5 rounds (or even 10 rounds if it was a normal draft). Those players don't even need to be thought of as real signees (assuming they are projected anywhere near the top end of the draft). We need to get some guys that are high quality position player recruits that aren't going to avoid coming to school unless they get true life changing bonus money normally only found in the first couple of rounds of the draft. We are successful doing it with pitchers so you would think we could do it with position players.