The $100 Million Dollar Player Development Machine Starts Rolling
The Red Sox, using the same financial muscle utilized in the signing of top prospect Lars Anderson a few years back, have begun their annual tradition of depriving college baseball teams of highly-touted incoming freshman.
Their first victim is Auburn University, who will have one less running back on their football squad next season. 10th round pick Brandon Jacobs, a 5’11″ 245 pound (now that is a low center of gravity) high school slugger has decided to nix his commitment to the football factory and sign a contract with the Red Sox. Jacobs, as you can probably imagine, is all about pure strength, and has a chance to develop into a powerful slugging corner OF/1B.
A few more “signability” high school draft picks who the Sox will work on over the next two months:
| Rnd | Name | Position | Committed to: | Notes: | ||||
| 5 | Seth Schwindenhammer | OF | Illinois | Big left-handed hitter. | ||||
| 6 | Branden Kline | P | Virginia | Polished, only 17. Tough sign. | ||||
| 7 | Madison Younginer | P | Clemson | Hard thrower, high ceiling. | ||||
| 11 | Jason Thompson | SS | Louisville | Possible 5-tool talent. | ||||
| 16 | Luke Bard | P | Georgia Tech | Dan’s brother. Tough sign. | ||||
| 18 | Renny Parthemore | P | Penn State | Low 90′s heat. Great name. | ||||
Schwindenhammer, Kline, and Younginer are all going to be real tough to sign also.
Kline is probably going to take more than anyone else to get out of his college commit (UVa).
totally blanked on the early round guys…I’ll add them to this table