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Originally Posted by Young Drachma
Hope it works out for him, there's something cool and unique about being the first guy to go first round in MLB/NFL drafts, no easy feat. That said, it's probably baseball's fault they kneecapped themselves with contracts that don't allow teams the flexibility to sign guys like this, when it was entirely available until a decade ago.
Will be interesting to debate in the next decade or sooner, whether he made the right decision or not.
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Didn’t they give the A’s the option to sign him to a major league deal in the end and he turned it down, or am I misunderstanding what happened?