sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 6/10/2009
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Hyped more than ever, the draft just doesn't make much sense as a major baseball event, says Joe Posnanski. These numbers don't lie.
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The '09 MLB Draft starts today! Here's our
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June, the 30 baseball teams will gather for one of the most tedious and longest processes in all of the sports. Does anybody even know how many rounds are in the Major League Baseball draft?
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by FanHouse Newswire MLB Draft day is officially
here, and while Major League Baseball's first-year player selection...
process hardly elicits the same excitement, hype or drama as its cousins in the NBA and NFL, it's still an enormously important day ...
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Posnanski: Why the MLB draft simply doesn’t work as a television spectacular
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Posnanski: Why the MLB draft simply doesn’t work as a television spectacular Uhh...could it be that having R. Budd as gorified award presenter makes dullen’ Bill Cullen look like a regular Asadata Dafora on stage? So, this year, for the first time, they tried to make the First Year Player Draft a television spectacular. They broadcast it in prime time. Commissioner Bud Selig came out to the lectern every few minutes to make a dramatic reading of a name he clearly had never seen before. Then, some baseball analysts talked for a few minutes about that name, and how great that ...
The MLB draft will never be popular
The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog —
Joe Posnanski of SI.com wrote an interesting piece about why the MLB draft doesn’t work as a popular television event.
1. The vast majority of players drafted will never get close to the big leagues. Take the 1994 draft … 15 years ago. There were 287 players taken in the first 10 rounds, and 190 of them — two thirds — did not get a single at-bat or throw a single pitch in the big leagues.
2. Even the players who DO make it will not make it for years. If the NFL Draft is, as the cliché goes, like ...
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