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Post by UICJohn on Jan 29, 2020 21:46:41 GMT -6
UIC recently announced their newest class of recruits. It features 14 incoming players. The highlight of the class is a picture from de La Salle in Chicago Illinois named Ben Hernandez. It’s hard to find rankings for baseball as opposed to basketball but everything I’ve seen about this kid is that he’s a stud. One recruiting site listed him a 10 out of 10 meaning an elite level player and possibly high draft pick. He has a 94 mph fastball and apparently one of the best change ups in the country. Excited to see him signed but I suppose that also open to us up to worrying about him being drafted before he ever plays for us. Happened with a player that sign with us that was taken in the 10th round this past year. The tough part about baseball is getting those amazing recruits is great but then they get drafted.
Again he did sign with us so that’s great and any draft is only speculation. I guess we have a year to wait and see
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Post by flamernation on Jan 30, 2020 11:09:59 GMT -6
Kid is a first round pick. He not coming to UIC. MlB 1st round picks out of hs get millions.
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Post by UICJohn on May 14, 2020 20:42:57 GMT -6
Okay so here we go - we signed a player out of De La Salle HS that’s a top prospect on the country.
Of course odds are he’ll never suit up for us or any college because of his talents. However what about with these new draft rules because of covid-19?
The draft is only 5 rounds and then teams can sign as many undrafted players they’d like for $20,000.
I don’t know how reliable mock drafts are and how different they might be with these circumstances now but he wasn’t a first round. With so much talent I’d imagine he would go in the 5 rounds but if he doesn’t?
Sign for $20,000? Or play college a few years and possibly sign for 10x+ that?
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Post by Big D on May 15, 2020 18:58:53 GMT -6
On top of that, he is very close with his special-needs brother and family, and his brother is one of the main reasons he chose UIC...so his brother could watch him play. Add that to the draft changes, along with him likely being separated from his brother sooner If drafted, and maybe you see him suit up for UIC for a bit. He would be the second of two highly ranked players we lost to the draft from high school over the last two years (the other to the Cubs I believe), and we lost that one good freshman hitter as well...we’d probably be dominant with the three of them.
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Post by uicc79 on May 16, 2020 15:42:56 GMT -6
Still Pis--- off with that "one good freshman hitter" we lost. Would love to know if UIUC even recruited him out of high school. Guessing no, since if they had, he would have gone there from the start of his college career.
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