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Florida Baseball: Five best all-time Gator commits that went pro instead

One of the realities for Florida baseball is that they have players commit while in high school that will never arrive in Gainesville because of where they get drafted in the MLB Draft. Keep in mind that a player can either sign with an MLB team straight out of high school or he has to wait three years before becoming draft eligible again.

And the Gators can attest to some super-talented players that committed to play at Florida but never made it to Gainesville.

So we here at Hail Florida Hail took a look at the list of players that had committed to Florida but ended up being drafted while in high school and signed a contract.