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I said it was highly unlikely he’d ever get to campus.
2nd-rder Joshua Baez signs w/@Cardinals for $2.25 million (pick 54 value = $1,338,500). Massachusetts HS OF has some of best upside in @MLBDraft, huge raw power, big arm strength, solid speed. Vanderbilt recruit.
— Jim Callis (@jimcallisMLB) July 19, 2021
...and he won’t. Cards give Baez first round money to sign him away from his Vanderbilt commitment. It would have been great to have him in gangster pajamas, but it was not meant to be.