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re: Baseball related/MLB could look to end high school draft eligibility with new CBA.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:41 pm to Tiger Ryno
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:41 pm to Tiger Ryno
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They wpuld have to treat international players the same for this to work. Should all be required to enter the draft
The owners have long been pushing for an international draft as yet another cost control, wage suppression tool.
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Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:41 pm to The Hurricane
Lets minor league managers be more coach and less babysitter.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:42 pm to ProjectP2294
Its a competitive balance issue to me. And also penalizes american players
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:46 pm to DBG
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It’s still about half of the first round picks coming from HS. Pretty big talent injection to college ball.
It’s still not that much. They won’t all be good either.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:50 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Its a competitive balance issue to me. And also penalizes american players
I feel like the owners, through Manfred, are using competitive balance to mask issues of willingness to spend lagging so far behind ability to spend.
Setting limits on the number of minor league players that orgs can have, the number of minor league teams that orgs can have, the type of tech they can use, all of this is to penalize the teams willing to spend to bring them down to the level of the teams that don't want to.
Why does the Pirates owner get to dictate that the Yankees can't have 8 minor league teams?
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:52 pm to Tiger Ryno
gonna need way more NIL $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:54 pm to The Hurricane
quote:Cannot emphasize this enough.
This would be incredible for the college game and a Jay Johnson lineup would just be unfair.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 12:57 pm to The Hurricane
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end high school draft eligibility
we will absolutely rack up talent and stack up championships if this happens...
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:10 pm to The Hurricane
Cant even imagine how much Jay would feast if that happens 
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:14 pm to The Hurricane
I would love to see the NBA does this as well.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:15 pm to chRxis
The competiveness of college Baseball will be like football has become.Every college will get quality players and will have a chance to pull a Indiana type run.Sure it’s going to benefit the tigers but it will all programs.There are only so many players a team can sign.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:20 pm to The Hurricane
I don't see this happening. How much money would teams really save by cutting the lower minor league levels? They're paying the minor leaguers peanuts as it is. They would also need to overhaul the signing of international players. No more signing 16 year olds from the dominican and venezuela. Sure, a handful of them get big bonuses, but the vast majority sign for less than 100k. It's beneficial to both the team and the players to get them into the developmental system early.
Baseball struggles to compete with the other major sports for the best athletes already. If you reduce the opportunity for young players to be drafted and sign, you're just going to push some of them to other sports where they might see a better chance of cashing in.
MLB has plenty of issues to work out in the next CBA. I just don't think the minor league system is one of them. Unless they actually start paying minor leaguers a livable wage.
Baseball struggles to compete with the other major sports for the best athletes already. If you reduce the opportunity for young players to be drafted and sign, you're just going to push some of them to other sports where they might see a better chance of cashing in.
MLB has plenty of issues to work out in the next CBA. I just don't think the minor league system is one of them. Unless they actually start paying minor leaguers a livable wage.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:23 pm to RGT
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Sure it’s going to benefit the tigers but it will all programs.
LSU, no matter what, will still run shite in college baseball...
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:27 pm to TigerLunatik
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He is gonna need more hands if this happens
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:34 pm to The Hurricane
Yes. This needs to happen asap. It would be YUGE for college baseball as a whole, and would definitely help Jay recruiting these dudes. Make it happen!
Posted on 1/23/26 at 2:32 pm to Alt26
quote:Disagree with this. LSU routinely gets killed in the draft. We lost 8 guys this year. Imagine Konnor Griffin on last year's team? Or multiple guys from the '23 class on the '23 team.
You wouldn't. Right now LSU is a very big fish in a very small pond. If you increase the size of the pond and add more fish, the competition to be the big fish becomes more difficult
This helps LSU far more than it hurts.
Of course the Tulane's and ULL's of the world will now get the fringe kids that LSU goes after, but with the portal, those guys (at the beginning of their careers) matter far less today than they did even 5 years ago.
Sure, there's probably less Cade Beloso's and Gavin Dugas's, but we would be able to replace them with the Justin Crawfords and Brice Turangs of the world.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 2:47 pm to The Hurricane
Very interesting development. If this were to happen, NCAA should revisit baseball scholarship limits.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 2:50 pm to PP7 for heisman
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Imagine Konnor Griffin on last year's team?
He's a great example for why removing HS players from the draft shouldn't be done, and specifically why the union should fight this as hard as possible.
He's on the cusp of making the majors, possibly even out of spring training. He would be entering his sophomore season (and draft eligible season under the current rules) if he had come to campus.
So the new rules would delay his breaking into the majors by at least a year. Which would delay his hitting free agency by at least a year. Which would negatively impact his career earnings and the ceiling of every contract he would sign going forward.
Yes, he's a rare case, but there are always players that are better served going straight pro rather than going to college.
And Griffin was closer to getting to campus than a lot of guys we've lost that were drafted later than him. Literally down to the last day.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 2:53 pm to ProjectP2294
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And the union won't want the long term wage suppression. Which is all this move is designed to do.
Wage suppression is definitely part of this; but reducing minor league expenditures is also very much a part of this as well.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 2:56 pm to LSUgrad88
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Wage suppression is definitely part of this; but reducing minor league expenditures is also very much a part of this as well.
Yes. They're exploring every way they can to cut spending.
And it's taking pro baseball out of more communities. It's reducing the number of jobs overall. And it's shrinking the next generation of coaches, scouts, etc.
The owners are trying to squeeze every last cent out of the game at the expense of the future of the game. It's like they're intent on being the last people ever to own teams.
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