Jack Z's In-Game interview with Powell

[PeaveyFury]

Surprised that no one mentioned the interview during the 3rd/4th innings yesterday (and if I missed the thread, I apologize).

 

A few things of note:

 

Jack Z. said that Braun's assignment would depend on how long it takes to sign him. If he signs right away, they'd play off his college season success and send him right to West Virginia, but if he takes a bit to get inked, they'd send him to Helena at first to get back up to speed before he was sent to WV later.

 

I was very encouraged by his eval of Inman. He said he wasn't scouted much by other teams, and quite frankly he didn't understand why. Said that his velocity was in the upper 80's early on, and teams just stopped scouting him at that point. They sent scout after scout to get numerous opinions on him, and they all liked him a lot, and said he was improving quickly over the course of the season.

 

He implied that our 10th rounder wasn't the only pre-draft deal, and also said that a few others were signed (or on the verge) and would probably be announced at some point today.

 

Those are the main things I could remember off the top of my head since I was at work and trying to listen as best as I could last night.

[clancyphile]

Who are the others, I wonder?

 

Inman? Jemile Weeks?

[pogokat]

jim asked him about jemile, but i got out of the car before he answered...

[PeaveyFury]

They kind of ran out of time in regards to Jemile (and Powell probably wasn't aware at that point that we grabbed the younger Eveland as well), so he said that they'd talk about the Weekses at another time.