Mike Moustakas to attend USC

Even more so, why the hell is David Glass listening to Bud Selig at all?  Rank stupidity, letting teams like the Tigers, Yankees, and Red Sox run roughshod over the slotting system while you hold the line and cost your team a LOT of money down the line, for the sake of what amounts to a pittance now.

It's total Game Theory.  When a system is broken and a minority of the players start taking advantage of a loophole to post huge gains, a loophole that has only minor consequences, the rest of the players must follow suit or be left behind.  That this is in particular a system that affords the most benefit to those most behind, and that the players taking advantage of the loophole are those most ahead, makes this even more glaring.  The fact that most teams are playing the drafting game so incredibly sub-optimally is a sign of the rank stupidity among front offices.

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If I'm the Royals, I make sure I take him the next time around and thoroughly enjoy offering him a $75,000 contract (or whatever 6th round slot is).

We act as if it the teams right to have these kids play for them.  I grew up in southern california too, I would hate to have to live in KC.  Obviously he's doing it for the money to a large (if not the entire) extent.

How about rather than bemoaning a franchise that shouldn't exist we congradulate the University of Southern California for putting together the best collection of amateur athletic talent in the country?

As a socal guy, and of greek descent, Im stoked that Moustakas is staying with his roots while also making some green.  He shouldn't have to apologize for that.

He wants to play pro ball, he declares, gets selected wherever, and goes and plays.  He wants to go to college and be Greek (which is relevant, apparently), he doesn't declare.  End of story, end of entitlement, end of Boras elevating greed to an art form in baseball.  (For the amateurs, anyway.  A-Rod's another story.)