Update: UK says Rusin will return.
Mike Fields has an update on Robbie Ross.
Midnight tonight is the deadline for baseball players taken in the June MLB draft to either sign or go back into next year's draft, which has quite an effect on the UK baseball team for 2009.
Exchanged e-mails with baseball contact Brent Ingram over at the UK sports information office.
He reports the following:
- Drafted players who have signed and not coming back: Sawyer Carroll, Collin Cowgill, Tyler Howe, Scott Green, Ryan Wilkes, Andrew Albers.
- Pitcher Greg Dombrowski has signed a free-agent contract with the Reds.
- Pitcher Chris Rusin was drafted and will be negotiating until the deadline. As Brent says, "it would be huge to get him back"
- UK has lost recruits Seth Lintz, Corban Joseph, Blake Brewer.
- Recruit Daniel Webb will instead go to junior college.
- Lexington Christian pitcher Robbie Ross, a UK signee, is in Texas getting his physical and negotiating. He was a second-round pick of the Rangers.
Meanwhile, the Reds are still said to be far from signing first-round pick Yonder Alfonso, first baseman from Miami. Here's Paul Daugherty's take.
