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8 minutes ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

In regards to the talk of hiding things and not talking strategy, I have a question. If we have the number one overall pick, couldn't we just walk out there and say we intend to take Rutschman or whoever? What can the rest of the league do about it?

Other teams?  Nothing.  Rutschman's advisor?  Lots.

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On whether he’s made a decision:“Nothing’s really changed. The draft is still three days away and we have a lot of time. A lot of the players we’re considering for the first pick are playing this weekend, and we’re going to monitor that and take it down ... There’s no reason to make the decision prior to when we have to make the decision, so we’re really spending a lot of our time discussing those candidates but also preparing for the draft, which is a meticulous process. We have a good bit of our scouting staff here now and the remainder of the staff will start arriving in town tomorrow. We’ll have a full staff for the draft itself.”

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On whether signability is a factor: “Yeah, it’s important to have a real clear idea of what that’s going to look like, especially in the top 10 rounds, because your bonus pool is so precarious. So we do a lot of advance work with that, and usually the area scout will get on the phone with the player’s camp and just make sure we have a pretty clear understanding, and sometimes later in the draft on the third day you’ll take guys on fliers with no idea if they’re going to sign, or kind of a hope and a prayer that they’re going to sign at the end of the summer. But that’s becoming rarer and rarer just because the signing deadline is earlier than it used to be and there’s only, like, a month where you’d have the kid under control, so not a lot changes in a month.”

 

 

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