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Cypress-Fairbanks outfielder Robbie Grossman, considered the No. 49 prospect in the country by Baseball America, was deciding between turning professional and coming to Texas.

He chose the Longhorns.

"I called Tommy Harmon and told him I'll be at Texas a week before school starts," Grossman said. "I'm just excited. I think (Taylor) Jungmann is going to be a Longhorn, too."

Jungmann, a 6-foot-6-inch right-hander from Georgetown, is another top pitching prospect. He was not drafted in the first six rounds and was unavailable for comment.

Despite not having a lot of Longhorns drafted on the first day, the team should feel pretty good about where it stands in terms of the recruits it signed this spring.

"We should know a lot more tomorrow," Harmon said.


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I wouldn't believe it either if it were just a kid saying to a newspaper reporter that he's not signing a contract. But why would a player call the coach who recruited him and tell him, right after he's been drafted, that he's still coming to Texas if he really didn't know that's what he wanted to do?

If there was any chance at all that the kid wanted to actually talk with the Pirates about a contract, he wouldn't have made that call to Tommy Harmon. Or if he did, it would have been a very different conversation.
 
Good news so far, but I never believe it until they show up for the first day of classes. Professional baseball can keep making offers until that first class begins.
 
Yeah, and that "leverage" is the reason he was drafted in the 6th round and not the 2nd, where he was projected. This is the Pirates we're talking about. They have one of the lowest payrolls in baseball. They're not going to give a 6th round high schooler a big contract just because he says he's going to play college ball. Grossman can't be that stupid.

I could see this happening closer to the August 15th deadline and there's no legit offer on the table. Can't see it on the day the kid is drafted.
 
The fact that this made it to us tells me that he (or his advisors) is sending a shot to MLB to not even bother with piddly offers. You want me- buy me!
 
Beau Vine is wise.

If everything shakes out as it seems right now, though, the Longhorns are going to welcome a guy who should challenge for the starting job in center field right away, along with two pitchers who will push for the starting rotation right away. And all three of them, I would have considered exceptionally high draft risks at the end of last summer.

For those of you out there who wonder why big programs even bother signing potential high draft risks - this is why. With 17-18 year old kids, you just never know.

They may all end up signing before the 15th - happened before, and it will happen again. But the picture looks a lot brighter, now, than it did on Wednesday.
 
Neither Jungmann nor Dicharry has been drafted, and we're in round 16.

Before the draft, I expected that only one of Jungmann, Dicharry, and Grossman would end up on campus. Now it looks like we have a good shot to get all three.
 
Take it with the appropriate block of salt, but prior to the draft I heard rumblings of Jordan being very inclined to stay for his senior year.
 
I agree. If the Pirates come with a huge offer - he'll probably go. But they're the Pirates, and there is a 0.02% chance of that.
 
Alright, wasn't aware of the new 8/15 deadline for offers. At least we now know by then if they will be coming to college, and not by waiting until they show up in their first actual class, like it used to be.
I'll still withhold any excitement until 8/16, because this has happened too many times. Hoping for the best, of course, for the Longhorns.
 
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