When the third round of the draft started, nobody expected Matt Allan to be selected. After falling out of the first round, most experts expected Allan to slide into the mid-teens or later before declining to sign and head to the University of Florida.
Instead, when the New York Mets came up to select at 89th overall, they shocked the draft world. When they selected Matt Allan everyone was trying to figure out how the Mets were going to be able to afford him. Allan had a reported asking price of $4 million that scared off teams at the back end of the first round.