Baseball Connection

Brady Aiken | A Gamble That Changed Baseball's Landscape


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There's an old saying: "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". Brady Aiken understands exactly what that means. After turning down a $5 million offer as the number one overall pick in the 2015 draft, Aiken enrolled at IMG Academy for a postgraduate year in 2015, where he got hurt during his first start and needed Tommy John surgery. He would get drafted 17th overall by the Indians that year and sign for $2.5 million, but Aiken's career immediately nosedived. As compensation for not signing Aiken in 2014, the Astros received the #2 pick in the 2015 draft, which they used to sign Alex Bregman.... All this (and more) on today's episode.
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