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Originally Posted by ctorg
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Another aspect of that that wasn't mentioned and that isn't likely to be part of the game any time soon is that in most seasons a team is lucky if it signs half of its draft picks. Most late-round picks aren't so much the Mike Piazza sign him because his dad is friends with the major league manager types as they are high schoolers and underclassmen who are likely to go to/go back to college and the occasional straight-out athlete (Heisman Award winner/crappy NBA point guard Charlie Ward was drafted, for example) who just maybe might want to give baseball a try. Also, there's that need to make sure the rookie league club has a utility infielder, backup catcher, and so on. That's got to be the toughest job in baseball, telling one of those kids not to get his hopes up because he's only going to be needed to cover injuries until the next draft class comes out.