Turk Nowitzki wrote:There's a post over on BF.net with some inside info saying that the Brewers were essentially told on draft night that Levonas wasn't going to sign and they went ahead and drafted him anyway. Kind of opens up the distinct possibility that they're using the situation of drafting an unsignable player to intentionally defer a fairly high pick into next year's draft which is being viewed as superior to this year's. I can't come up with a logical reason to make the pick against what you're directly being told otherwise? Then I guess if he changes his mind for whatever reason you still end up signing a guy you really like as a prospect.
If true it continues to strengthen my confidence in the organization. There can be a debate of "bites of the apple" vs. "go for it" type of decisions at the MLB level, but good organizations continue to make future-based/process-based decisions and don't make rash and impatient ones (i.e. Packers, (ugh) Celtics, etc.).