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Freeman is going to make it really tough not to have him on the team next year.

unless he just blows up this year at AA, i'd have no problem not rushing him. he was just at A Rome this past summer. got to see him and heyward a few times and wow....they are special. we have kotchman through what, 2011 or 2012? i wouldn't be opposed to hang on to kotch through 2011 and then hand the job over to freeman if he's ready for it.

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According to the video I saw about him the other day it said he had a down Senior year of High School which is why he fell out of the top 10.

haven't heard that, but i have heard that a lot of top prospects tend to fall in the MLB draft b/c of the signing bonus and contract that they "should" get and that a lot of teams can't afford to tie up that kind of money in a top prospect that may not pan out.

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According to the video I saw about him the other day it said he had a down Senior year of High School which is why he fell out of the top 10.

I haven't heard anything like this,, in fact I only heard his stats from his senior year were unreal.

He fell due to signability concerns. Both his parents went to Dartmouth, and he told everyone who would listen that he wanted to get a college education.

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I haven't heard anything like this,, in fact I only heard his stats from his senior year were unreal.

He fell due to signability concerns. Both his parents went to Dartmouth, and he told everyone who would listen that he wanted to get a college education.

I'm just telling you what the video I saw said. Here is the link that has that video.

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Heyward, who celebrated his 18th birthday on Thursday, is an impressive physical specimen who stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 230 pounds. During his senior season at Henry County High School, which is located about 20 minutes from Turner Field, he hit .520 with eight homers and 29 RBIs.
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He fell due to signability concerns. Both his parents went to Dartmouth, and he told everyone who would listen that he wanted to get a college education.

Yeah, we had a discussion about this right after he was selected by the Braves. Other teams had speculated that he intentionally leaked this because Atlanta is where he really wanted to play. No one was willing to take a chance on him being serious, however, because you don't want to completely waste a draft pick in the upper half of the first round. Bill Shanks said afterward that the Braves had been running draft simulations for weeks. Heyward hadn't fallen to them in any of them.

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