Archive for the 'Amateur' Category

Per Keith Law, Andy Oliver has settled with the NCAA : Andy Oliver, the former Oklahoma State Univ. pitcher who won a court decision earlier this year voiding the NCAA’s regulation prohibiting student athletes from having an attorney make direct contact with a pro sports team, has settled his case against the NCAA, two weeks […]

Get breakdowns of Stephen Strasburg, Donavan Tate, Zack Wheeler, Christian Friedrich, Tyler Matzek, and Jacob Turner.

Jayson Stark rolls out the usual column. It’s basically a brief in support of the owners. I’ll grant that there are many problems with the draft, but an argument which boils down to “we need to fix the draft because these guys are making too much money” is a decidedly one-sided one. He also throws […]

The defensive stylings of Robbie Shields, Gordon Beckham, and…Tyler Bortnick?

Texas closer Austin Wood isn’t the only college pitcher to have endangered his arm this year. Jeff looks at the workloads of other top picks.

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Jeff looks at the first five rounds of the draft and finds the players whose numbers benefited or suffered most from context.

Get the lowdown on the Top 50 players in the 2009 MLB draft.

Or deal with the draft. You choose.

Reader Jason D. has a request: Please write about how damn stupid Stark’s ESPN.com piece on draft bonuses is. I’m bored at work. Gladly! Stark’s piece is about Stephen Strasburg and draft bonuses. Take it away Jayson: Fifty million bucks. Roll that around your tongue. Fifty million bucks. That’s not this week’s Powerball jackpot. That’s […]