Quote from: AGMAN on May 20, 2008, 12:09:41 AM
By the way, whatever happened to Scott Hyde?

Good Luck to Chapman, I hope they win it all!

He won a world series with his best friends and will remember it forever, then got drafted because he carried a D3 team to a title.  What happened to all the talent from many other schools?  They made sure not to overuse them and they sat on the bench while other teams dog piled in front of them.

I understand the idea of not ruining a guy's career, but does 10-20 innings over the course of a year really mean the difference between prolonged professional baseball success and burnout in the first year?  I don't think so.  I also believe (coming from someone who never played pro baseball) that playing in regionals and world series' are the most fun and intense games that a guy will play until he reaches the bigs because of the team oriented nature and the emphasis on winning.  I think that there are many guys that are as talented as Hyde that came from D3 that either didn't get a shot in pro baseball because their teams were not good or were "saved" for later that would go back and pitch more innings to get their teams to a world series or a championship.  We're not talking about first round talents that are risking millions of dollars to take the ball on 3 days' rest.