WR Brody Brecht: ISU vs Iowa
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his “people” have been limiting the pitches he can throw in a game and how often he can pitch for the hawks. There’s really only one reason to do that and it’s not to play WR in football.
The money is better in the MLB (unless you’re a quarterback) and the potential damage to your body is much more limited in the MLB. I love football and hate baseball, but I’d go MLB 10 times out of 10 if it were my choice.
It’s the brain damage that I’d be concerned about, but that said when I was 18 I went skydiving, rode homemade zip lines, and had boxing matches in my friends’ basement so I wasn’t exactly concerned about that stuff.
There are two ways to over slot a draft pick. As you mention, pay the top guys more and then "tank" the rest of the draft.
The more popular method is to reach on the top couple picks with prearranged agreements with the agent/player. This leaves a bigger pool of $ to spread over the top 5-10 rounds with hope to sign more guys.
The Orioles did that last year. They took a 20ish ranked player #2 overall and paid him less than the #2 slot, but more than a #20 draft pick.
More than any other sport the baseball draft has very few sure thing draft picks, so it becomes a numbers game of signing a high % of a teams HS draft picks.
Yep...that way works as well...as long as no other team picks the kid you like before you get a chance to. But you are correct...that method allows you to save money for later in the draft.
wow, he's legit-clocked a 100mph, but is only #77 ?@? I don't follow MLB draft, but seems like he's got some rare talent and under-rated.
Agree...what is there that slides him down to #77? Experience? Can't teach 100mph+...there are certainly organizations that would be thrilled to bring that talent aboard and teach him complimentary stuff!
Basically, he is rated so low bc he has less travel circuit exposure paired with paying the Midwest penalty. Midwest recruits are perpetually undervalued bc the majority of scouts are based on the coasts. Iowa is, to my recollection, the only state that plays HS baseball in the summer which pulls him off that circuit and then he is FB in the fall instead of fall ball. Fanning 17 against Ames is hardly the same as fanning 17 against hypothetical KC Elite.
He had a real doozie one time about his sources that backfired but I can't remember. It might have been under his last username
That is so true. For example, look at someone like Lane Danielson. Ran a 4.5, could bench 400 lbs and was obviously good enough to make big plays at the D1 level but he was really recruited by anyone. How does a guy who runs a 4.5 fall through cracks like that?
Agreed 100 mph is intriguing.
My guess is Brecht is #77 because he hasn't pitched against elite competition.
Most highly ranked HS players have had scouts watch them in showcase events.
Just curious. One article said he was the #3 ranked player in the state for the draft. Anyone know who the top two are?
Probably a stupid take on Xavier Foster when he was rhoho.
A great read was him wanting to fight @IASTATE07 in Southern Iowa. Gold.
Would be interested to see that article, could be outdated. I believe he's the #1 prospect at the moment, but in terms of high school prospects in the state, Jackson Wentworth is an RHP from Waukee that has gotten some buzz recently, and Ian Moller is a C from Dubuque (doesn't play for his HS) who is committed to LSU that has been a big prospect for a while.
Here is the article. When I actually googled Perfect Game’s ranking (from a couple of weeks ago), Brecht was indeed the highest ranked player from Iowa that I found—at #62.
CBS Sports: Brody Brecht is one of the four most polarizing players in 2021 MLB Draft
We'll know what Brody Brecht's decision is sometime in the next couple of days. Here's what CBS Sports had to say about him.
247sports.com
MLB Draft: Top 500
Perfect Game has released its Top-500 prospects list for the upcoming MLB Draft, which will be held from July 11-13.
Here is the article. When I actually googled Perfect Game’s ranking (from a couple of weeks ago), Brecht was indeed the highest ranked player from Iowa that I found—at #62.
CBS Sports: Brody Brecht is one of the four most polarizing players in 2021 MLB Draft
We'll know what Brody Brecht's decision is sometime in the next couple of days. Here's what CBS Sports had to say about him.
MLB Draft: Top 500
Perfect Game has released its Top-500 prospects list for the upcoming MLB Draft, which will be held from July 11-13.www.perfectgame.org
At one time Moller from DBQ was projected as a 1st round pick.
He has taken a non-traditional path by playing on high-level travel team vs. high school for at least the last 3 years. He has also played in a number of the elite showcase events.
He has had an up & down spring and scouts have been much more critical in his evaluation and dropped from first round to around 125-150.
Just goes to show how finicky it is evaluating baseball prospects.
Brecht is #77 on here but he is flying up the board as he wasn't even in their top 200 a couple months ago. If you read his profile it indicates that he passed on some of the events other top prospects take part in because he was focusing on track and football. He's getting more attention now and if he keeps having these huge games he could legitimately be a second round pick. Hard to pass up that guaranteed money even with Iowa known for having prolific offenses with LSU receiver type numbers.
