M pitcher Trent Szkutnik signs with Detroit Tigers, will forgo SR year
Trent was great for Michigan this season.
Sad to see him go but excited that he's going to the Tigers organization. Would be cool to see him get up to Toledo soon.
He was taken in the 20th round of the 2014 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/061714aaa.html
If I was from SE Michigan (I am, he lives down the street from me actually) and got to play for Michigan for three years but the Tigers drafted me, I would probably go play for the Tigers.
As long as the Tigers offered me a clause to pay for the rest of my degree at any time. Then you can't go wrong. Three years of collegiate baseball and free education, a chance at professional baseball, and if all else fails an opportunity to go and finish my free education.
get free education. They get part of it paid off. Unlike football and basketball, baseball players don't get a full scholarship. They often get partial scholarship from the athletic department.
While most players only get partial scholarships, it's not necassarily the athletic department giving them partial scholarships. Generally for non-revenue and hockey the athletic department will give the coach X amount of scholarships and they're free to divide those however they want. So for baseball, a 30 man roster may get 18 scholarships or whatever the number is.
The number for D-1 schools is actually only 11.7, and that's an NCAA-imposed limit. All an athletic department might do is cut that number even further. It's certainly a fact that few D-1 baseball players get full scholarships.
I know he's glad he got drafted by the Tigers, but it wouldn't have mattered who drafted him, he still was going to sign. That was the expectation heading into the draft. James Bourque will almost certainly sign with the Washington Nationals as well (if he hasn't done so already). Contract-wise, there's little point in them returning for their senior years as they'd have no leverage to negotiate a better deal.
Michigan has plenty of pitching options with their returning players and the incoming freshmen, so this isn't any sort of major blow.
Verlander question is answered then. They've found his replacement.
So much baseball....GEEZ MAN. /s
And as a pitcher, am watching Tiger games, I'm signing too. He'll be called up in no time with that bullpen.
20th round picks don't normally get called up soon. He'll play a couple years of rookie ball before even making it to minor league team.
Normally the major league club that drafted the pitcher doesn't have a dumpster fire for a bullpen.
I was just getting out some frustration over this team's pitching as of late. The odds are he will never see the tall buildings, especially not this year.
The Nationals announced the signing of M pitcher James Bourque, a 14th rounder.