The MLB Draft brings a special kind of anxiety to fans of a college baseball team.
With the NFL and the NBA, it’s different. Players have to announce their intentions in advance. Once the player announces his intentions (or in the case of the NBA, he doesn’t withdraw his name at the deadline to do so), it’s done. He’s either coming back or he isn’t.
But baseball is a little different. You’ll hear a player’s name called on Monday night (or Tuesday), and the process is just beginning. Now you have to wait a month or two to find out if he’s signing to play professionally or returning to school (or coming to school, in the case of incoming recruits.