Shea Patterson Signs Contract With Rangers
Looks like Shea may be here just a year unless I'm misunderstanding things.....
I misunderstood. Ugh. Neg away.
How do you up/downvote on the new site? Or is mine just broken?
How do you up/downvote on the new site? Or is mine just broken?
There’s no way to neg the op and for good measure up and down votes don’t affect points which, fuck. We just electronically shake our fists on the new site.
He gone.
No he’s not. He signed to play after his college football career ends.
If he plays at all with even the Rangers's training squad, I would be very surprised
The “Rangers training squad”? With apologies, you sound kind of like my Mom talking about baseball. She might be surprised as well.
Third baseman, eh?
Well, the quarterback arm will help definitely.
I knew he went in the MLB Draft to the Rangers, but I honestly didn't know which position they supposedly drafted him to play.
Well, if he plays well this year and looks like a decent NFL pick (if even the following year), I hope there's an out clause he can invoke. It may be just a placeholder for the Rangers against other MLB teams, rather than locking him into the Drew Henson paradigm. But as a 39th round pick, he'll never see a MLB stadium - unless he buys a ticket.
He won't need an out clause. Signing the contract doesn't force him to play baseball. It does lock in the Rangers rights in case he decides to play baseball. A long shot, I am sure.
Kenny Rodgers was a 39th round pick. Going past that, Keith Hernandez went in the 42nd round and Mike Piazza the 62nd. There are a lot of really good players that go very late in the MLB draft.
Bunch of nobodies.
He’s only going to be here a year anyways, but that has nothing to do with this contract. This is just for shits and gigs.
#Hensoned
Too Soon
Fallback plan.
This is a non-issue.
Shea was drafted in the 39th round of the MLB draft. At that stage of the draft there are no signing bonuses, no charter flights, no press conferences or hot cheerleaders welcoming you to the organization. You’re lucky if you make 30-35k a year. I know because one of my buddies got drafted by the Mariners in the 40th round several years ago. He lived in motels for several years and couldn’t afford more than going to AppleBees if he wanted to go out for dinner.
Next year’s NFL draft has no surefire early round QB candidates. The best candidates right now are Jarrett Stidham from Auburn, Justin Herbert from Oregon(who?), and Will Grier from WVa. Far cry from the QB class from this past season. Shea will take his chances, learn from the best QB coach in America this Fall, and go to the NFL draft from there. If he has even a halfway decent season, he can be off the board in the first round. If he has a good to great season, he’s guaranteed to be the first QB off the board and possibly a top-10 pick.
If EJ Manual could be a first draft pick, so can Shea Patterson.
I had no idea Patterson played hockey too!!!
Was about to post the same thing, then decided to make sure no one else had posted it. Congrats. You're way down here at my level.
Thanks, Stu.
I've discovered life is more fun when you're an imbecile.
M football once sent a third basemen to the Yanks.
Eh, Drew.
I dont get how you could misunderstand things unless you didn't bother to even open the article before posting it...
One can only assume that he did this for no reason other than to avoid being taken #1 overall by the Lions
*Browns
Nothing to see here. He hasn't played baseball since his junior year in H.S. This is a last chance fall-back position in case his football career does not work out. But if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on him being a football player long term.
Ranger's contract is place-setter in case that NFL career does not pan out ... that baseball contract at his draft position isn't worth much more than an expense-paid minor league tryout.
Somewhere George Steinbrenner is laughing his @ss off
I have a feeling he's not saying much of anything.
Texas AM QB just signed a $5 million dollar contract for MLB ,he is playing QB at AM this year
Patterson will be an NFL QB ,he might be in Ann Arbor for one season,but he will play QB this season
Let's get real Shea's Rangers "contract" is not any where near first round money like $5MM. It is basically $0 ... maybe he gets a free bus ride to the minor league complex, hotel accomodations and food expenses. That is f-ing it ... a minor league tryout.
Optics are terrible, he seems like a hired gun, one year here, one year there, etc.
No optics here - took a backup plan to tryout for the minor leagues in case the NFL thing does not work out. The means absolutely nothing to his commitment to football.
Please tell me there are no Steinbrenners in the Rangers ownership?