Shea Patterson Drafted
Shea Patterson was drafted today by the Texas Rangers in the 39th round of the MLB draft as a 3rd baseman despite not playing baseball since his JR year of high school. The end of the draft always gets a little funky.
Im guessing he has some connection to the franchise but did not find anything
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/2018/06/06/michigan-shea-patterson-mlb-draft/679393002/
It was a great season Shea best of Luck!
https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/rangers
Are situations like theese common in the mlb? I can’t see the value in drafting a kid who hasent played since highschool even if he’s a d1 quarterback
In the late rounds yes, you see a lot of family friends or sons of the organization get drafted. I guess since there are so many rounds teams figure picks dont matter.
If I remember correctly, teams in the MLB Draft can basically keep drafting as long as they want. But it also makes sense if the Rangers just want to make headlines and not have to worry about signing someone and using bonus money on them.
Extremely common. It’s a 40 round draft. Towards the end it always seems like GMs let their 8 year old grandson pick somebody.
Odds are anyone you drafted in that position aren’t going to sign anyway, and even in the incredibly unlikely event that they do sign, they’re probably not very good anyway.
A few years ago the tigers drafted Mario Impemba's kid and Rod Allen's kid in the late rounds...
One year, Al Avila's kid was drafted.
I remember that, they even went as far as letting him play in a couple games. Crazy times
Baseball has always been as much gimmick as sport, imho
What is the point of 40 rounds? Has anyone made a career in baseball being drafted that late? This seems like something that is easily changed.
At any given point, each franchise prolly has a dozen-ish kids in their system who are legit MLB prospects. And those kids need to play in minor league games...
AAA
AA
A+
A
Short Season
Rookie (anywhere from two to four teams)
...and each of those teams needs 25-ish players. Meaning each team has at least 150 minor league players who exist solely so that the dozen-ish with an MLB future can play competitive baseball every day. Hence the 40 round draft.
They usually carry another 4 or 5 kids on IR or Designated for Assignment at each level. The average organization carries about 165 players. The actual number that will eventually play in the majors is almost exactly 10% or 16-17 per organization. There was a great program on MLB Network called "The Ten Percent." It aired last year and focused on the SF Giants organization. It is a must see for anyone who doesn't appreciate the time, effort and skill involved in becoming a major league ballplayer.
Also...
Keith Hernandez - 42nd Round, 1971
Ryne Sandberg - 20th Round, 1978
John Smoltz - 22nd Round, 1985
Mike Piazza - 62nd Round, 1988
Andy Pettitte - 22nd round, 1990
Mark Beuhrle - 38th Round, 1998
"After his father asked Lasorda to select Piazza as a favor, the Miami-Dade Community College student was drafted by the Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 MLB amateur draft as the 1,390th player picked overall."
I guess it can work out.
There’s not a whole lot for GMs to lose in these way late rounds anyway. In these rounds, there are no signing bonuses, salaries usually aren’t more than 2k a month if that, and these guys hardly ever make it past single or double a. Much less ever get called up to the big leagues. One of my buddies got drafted by the Mariners around the fortieth round five to six years ago. He did make it up to AA before hanging up the cleats, but he told me that for four years his life was living in the middle of buttfuck nowhere most of the year, living in motels, countless hours riding the bus to and from games, and memorizing the 2 for $20 menu at AppleBees because if he wanted to go out for dinner that was as much as he could afford.
You never really consider a pick to be worthless, but a pick near the 40th round is as close as it gets.
The Angels drafted Torii Hunter Jr. in the 23rd couple years back, when he was playing *football* for Notre Dame. He surprised a lot of people by switching to Baseball full time, and surprised everyone even more by being a pretty darn good prospect, especially considering he only played like 20 baseball games for the Irish in four years.
Reminds me of Drew Henson a bit. Makes me wonder if the next Tom Brady is on the roster and not named Patterson....
I'm guessing an OSU fan/alum in the Rangers front office is behind this. To them I say, wishful thinking!!
....the curse of Drew Henson and george steinbrenner!!!
So to finish the analogy who in the stable is next Tom Brady ? Dylan McCaffery #10 ?
Harbaugh likes them 2-sport athletes!
Just not at the Pro level ...
RIP the dream. Back to Brandon Peters it is
I'm both confused and impressed.
The Rangers must have sent scouts to Harbaugh's QB camp to watch Shea field grounders.
So does this mean he’s gone?? Someone explain!!!
I guess technically he hasn't said no, but no
I will do the 'eat-a-lemon' video post challenge if Patterson actually does sign with a team that drafted him in the next-to-last round for a sport he doesn't play.
Not at all. Oklahoma's QB Kyler Murray was the 9th overall pick and has an actual legitimate future in pro baseball but will still be suiting up to play for the Sooners this season. The late rounds of the MLB draft are basically throw-away picks, and it is very common for notable non-baseball playing amateur athletes to get selected along with the sons of team coaches/employees and former players. Most of those picks will never play pro ball, or if they do, not above the very lowest minor league levels or after getting a few years of development in college and re-entering the draft.
Nice avatar pic.
Can anyone tell me how to get mine back?
Shea is a phenomenal athlete and even though this is a pointless draft pick, it does show that he is a multi faceted athlete.
Thanks for any help in regards to getting my pic back.
Pure power play. Shea just wants larger salaries for his OL.
Awesome reference to earlier events.
If drafted higher, I'd have gone all-in on comparing him to Russell Wilson.
I was joking about this happening with a friend after Murray got drafted. Joke is on us, I guess.
Anyone from the Ranger's connected with OSU?
See below. I'm close with the Rangers scout that drafted him. He's a Hawkeye fan but a graduate of WMU.
The Rangers seem to do this a lot
Since this move is silly and my question does not warrant a separate thread, I'll ask it here: will the MGoFeed twitter eventually pick back up so I can be notified of blog posts via Twitter notifications? Or will a new Twitter account have to be set up for the new site?
I'll leave this here in case anyone hasn't heard of the best draft story ever: https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/the-legend-of-taro-tsujimoto/c-438557
That is awesome. Could never do that now with the internets and all.
Fucking Steinbrener is behind it somehow.
He could be the next David Winfield, drafted in 3 sports. What sport do you think is next: hockey or basetball???
Any chance he suits up for Bakich this spring and plays Michigan baseball?
The MLB draft should just stay away from Michigan QBs, for everyone's sake.
Maybe it's because I don't follow baseball that closely, But shouldn't an athlete declare for a draft before he can be drafted? Or is the MLB draft pretty much a bunch of dudes throwing darts at pages of a phone book taped up on a giant wall?
The MLB draft is the wild west, anyone can be drafted as long as you meet the MLB eligibility standards. Not 100% sure of the requirements, but something like this, being a senior in high school, GED and of age (Bryce Harper), or just finishing your third year in college.
Bryce Harper is an interesting story he was the national player of the year his sophomore and junior year in high school. After his junior year he got his GED went and played at a junior college in what would have been his senior year in high school. This league used wood bats, and then was drafted #1.
Definitely the latter. You meet a certain eligibility and then can be drafted, but you need to either sign with a team or you go back in the draft pool. Say a 18 year old gets drafted by the Padres in the 15th round. He can elect not to sign, and then he'd go back in the pool next year and hopefully improve his stock (and get more $$).
I mean, if you have any athletic ability, and you're not a child molester, you'll get drafted in the MLB draft...