We’ll have to wait and see on the $$$ and details. I’m glad that it’s done though. Get this kid in a league!!!
Love the pick or hate the pick, he’s a Cardinal prospect now and Future Redbirds wishes him the best!
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here, here! now throw monopoly money at russell and change his mind. or at least get zawacki, stutes and henley.
saw this digging around at BA re:Kozma…”The club dispatched several officials to Owasso, Okla., for an individual hitting session with the infielder. They came away from that convinced the swing would translate eagerly from aluminum to bat and resolved that Gossett had his personality pegged.”
maybe his swing did change from what was on the draft video, you would think it would’ve had to impress them enough to take him earlier then what some expected.
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he was named the best defensive player at the world wood bat championships last fall ahead of guys like justin jackson.
he was named the 6th best prospect (ahead of jarrod parker, nick noonan, and tim alderson) and the most exciting player (ahead of josh vitters, rick porcello, matt dominguez, and blake beaven) at the area code games.
I saw that “most exciting” note too and immediately thought of Joe Morgan talking about Jose Reyes…, which of course annoys me to no end. But I’ll certainly take exciting over boring.
Welcome, Pete.
Guys, I want to repeat my obstinacy to Gomez’s swing criticism. An 18 year old with terrific athleticism has plenty of ability to modify and improve a batting swing. Less athletic guys do it continually throughout their career as they adjust both to their own skills and their competition. The big question is will he get the OPPORTUNITY and the training to fix something should it indeed turn out to be a problem? And given his draft status and their investment in him, that answer is going to be yes.
So even if Gomez is correct, it hardly seems an insurmountable problem. And it sounds like he has an awful lot of other things going for him.
If 2009 comes along and Kozma is struggling with the bat and has been unable to fix a creaky swing, I will buy you all a round.