Interesting, in MLB's Gameday it now shows balls in the dirt with dust around the little ball/strike circle and damage to the chalk line. Nice, but useless touch.
I think he's trolling the writers. All he says is that Vlad isn't a major league player yet, which he's correct in saying ... he hasn't played a MLB game yet.
Looks like there was both a January and June draft. He was drafted in the January one.
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/research.asp?Q=Y&Y1=1977&Y2=1977&R=1&R1==&Ovl=&Ovl1==&P=Jan-Reg&Player=&HC=&Status=&Signed=&School=&CTeam=&dteam=&bats=&throws=&CLS=&Bonus=&Bonus2=%3E=&RegionD=&RegionB=&CLev=&dPos=&cPos=&HL2==&HL1=&YA=&Place=&Exp=0
There were 3 drafts at one point:
To be fair, we ate 37.5M AND paid 5M to "upgrade" Tulo to Freddy Galvis. If that's not an insult, I don't know what is. Tulo did mention how thankful he was to the training staff for all the hard work they put in with him.
I personally see Borucki as a #3 starter if he stays healthy enough to make most of his starts every year. I think we'll see his stuff play up as he settles into the league. He's not Buehrle though.