So Senquez Golson turns down Red Sox money, then quits baseball
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That's good news. I thought he looked good for them in the early baseball season last year. Didn't pay much attention to him down the stretch, but I thought he'd be a major player for them.
Well yeah, if you can play baseball it is the better path. But not many players who hit .204 in the SEC (actually he was 0-5 in conference games) ever get anywhere near the majors. He'd have the money now, but that's all he would have ever gotten from baseball. This way he may have a chance to make it to the NFL
Come on. He was an 8th round pick. The guy has potential. Pretty obvious he just likes football more. MLB teams don't waste picks, they aren't playing around. I don't wish anything bad for him, but I'm glad his baseball potential was not realized while in an Ole Miss uniform.
Is an 8th round pick really that high? How many 8th rounders eventually make it to the majors for a full year? I would have guessed not many (like less than 25%?), on the assumption that as long as the average career is at least 3 to 4 years, each team wouldn't need 8 players a year to keep their major league team staffed and that you'd be well into crap shoot range by the 8th round.
I was thinking that he was not playing down the stretch due to grades/attendance. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Yeah, you are correct, as everyone else did under Houston Nutt it seems. Golson really turned it on down the stretch in football and I think he can be a pretty good one.
Not saying it was a smart decision, just that there's a decent chance it may turn out to be the better decision in the long run. I agree, $2M guaranteed is a lot to turn down. But it's not quite as much as it sounds like. You're never even going to see the first $1 because it's going to taxes and your agent. Then you'll go through a couple of hundred thousand supplementing your $10,000 minor league salary for the 4 years you'll probably play before washing out. Still, that's $800K left if your smart and that's a lot of money. If you're not smart, you'll blow most all of it.
That's petty compared to that Ole Miss football signing bonus and salary.
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I don't think it was $2 million..
I thought it was a little over a million, but that's a million more than he has now in Oxford...
I thought it was a little over a million, but that's a million more than he has now in Oxford...
He was always going to be a project for them on the baseball field. They would have been fortunate to get one productive season out of him. If he had signed with MLB, he would have been in rookie ball for at least a couple of years.
I know it's been done successfully (mostly pitchers and a couple CF's who are coveted more so for defense than hitting) but it doesn't seem like statistics are on the side of those who choose to do 2 sports. Bo Jackson won a Heisman while doing it and was a higher pick in baseball, but he was a freak unmatched by any human since.
Just seems like splitting your time and dedication between two sports leads to less productivity in both.
If he didn't want to do baseball, I can't fault him for that, even if I wish he had chosen that over football.
Just seems like splitting your time and dedication between two sports leads to less productivity in both.
If he didn't want to do baseball, I can't fault him for that, even if I wish he had chosen that over football.