PITTSBURGH -- It didn't really matter what happened during the MLB Draft. Casey Hughston was going to celebrate on Tuesday night.
Still, as he gathered with his parents and a few friends, he was nervous. The Draft-eligible sophomore from the University of Alabama heard from a few interested teams, and he was completely honest with them about his bonus demands. He worried that the dreaded "S" word -- "signability" -- might have ruined his chances of being drafted at all this year.
It wasn't an ideal start to his 21st birthday.
"There was a moment there I didn't think I was going to get drafted in this Draft," Hughston said in a phone interview on Tuesday afternoon.