At first glance, it might seem like a tough choice for a young baseball player. On the one hand, there’s a Division 1 school that wants to give you a full ride. On the other, major league scouts are very high on you.
For Mike Burrows (@mburrows), however, the choice was easy.
“I stuck with my number,” says the 21-year-old righty starter. He had a figure in mind that, if an MLB team met it, would lead him to pro ball rather than the scholarship that the University of Connecticut was offering.
And so the Pirates did, taking him in the eleventh round of the 2018 draft out of Waterbury (CT) High School and meeting his number.