Tyrell Jenkins appears headed for Baseball
Posted on August 7th, 2010 by azruavatar in 2010 MLB Draft, Tyrell JenkinsLooks like Tyrell Jenkins is headed for baseball. The Cardinals 3rd pick overall indicated to Baylor football coach that he won’t report for pre-season drills.
The Cardinals have yet to announce an agreement with Tyrell Jenkins but all indications are that he’ll sign this week.
(Thanks to Dustin Mattison & 2xAught7 for the tweets linking to the Baylor report.)
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Best of luck to Tyrell. If he works hard, he could become a good one.
Exciting…he will be a project for sure but has plenty of upside which are system desperately needs.
Now all the Cardinals need to do is sign Austin Wilson. Signing Zack Cox would be nice but not for too much, he had one good year of college, and one crappy one, so who knows what to expect out of him. And if we don’t sign him, we’ll have the pick for next year and they say that next years draft is pretty deep.
IMO, signing guys like Cox for whatever they want is still a much better investment than signing a declining veteran to a 1 yr $3-4M deal. The payoff when you hit on such a guy is tremendous. In contrast, the best you can hope for with a guy like Penny is to break even.
I would tend to agree with you but realistically its the big league club that makes us all the revenue and gets fans in the seats. So it we need a FA acquisition to fill a hole you have to do what you gotta do. I do think we need to continue to draft the best player available and many upside picks each draft to bring our system up to the Top 10 level with plenty of depth and upside. The last 2 years have been a nice overall blend of players and a few international guys that are exciting. But we have to continue to do this to continue to feed our system.
Cox had a perfectly good first year in college. He certainly wasn’t “crappy”. He was the consensus best college bat in the draft. Much as I love wilson’s upside, Cox has a VERY good chance of being an average or better MLBer at a position of organisational need. Wilson has, what, a 1-in-10 chance of being a star player in 5 or 6 years. I’d love to get Wilson too but Cox IMO is the better prospect, simply because as well as having solid (maybe not wilson-level) upside he’s got a very high chance of being a 2-3 WAR player within a couple of years.
Also, bear in mind that “too much” for the 24th pick in the draft (say, $3m?) gets you one year of a good LOOGY on the free agent market. It makes much better business sense to sign EVERY draft pick and just not put quite as much money into signing the Trever Millers of this world.
I agree with Clark on Zack Cox. I believe this was the plan all along. If the Cardinals don’t sign him they get a supplimental pick next year which may be more valuable than this pick. Either way it is a win. Either you get a top ten pick on the cheap or you get a good pick next year. This is a great way to use picks at the end of the first round. I think it is odd that they picked Jenkins with a supplimental pick because if they don’t sign him they wasted the pick.
Looks like Luhnow recently stated the only thing that is waiting on the Jenkins signing is a physical – per STLToday article. Appears the deal is in place which is a good sign.
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/article_94b5e3b0-bedd-5fc4-a970-25d5342e2a14.html
Good news!