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CPL #7: Kyler Murray is a great prospect if he picks baseball

Source: www.athleticsnation.com - Thursday, January 31, 2019
The two-sport star has a big decision to make. Our 2019 Community Prospect List adds its most complicated case in recent memory. The newest addition is a great baseball prospect, but he’s also a hot football prospect and might leave entirely to play in the NFL. Here’s the current list, including their winning margins (the difference between his % of the vote, and the % of the runner-up): Jesus Luzardo, LHP (+78%) A.J. Puk, LHP (+7%) Sean Murphy, C (+80%) Lazaro Armenteros, OF (+1%) Austin Beck, OF (+59%) Jorge Mateo, SS (+6%) Kyler Murray, OF (+7%) There’s not much else to say about the Kyler Murray situation that hasn’t already been said a thousand times, and there’s no new information to add. The A’s drafted him in the 1st round last summer, but he stuck around school for one more season of college football and won the Heisman . Now his football prospects have gone from questionable to hot, and he might be a 1st-round draft pick in the NFL too. But he has to choose one sport or the other because quarterback can’t be a part-time job, so at some point he needs to make a decision on which to play. Here’s the latest piece of actual news , from when he declared for the NFL Draft a couple weeks ago, and here’s a more recent take from Nico after FanFest last weekend. We can debate all we want, but really there’s nothing more to do but wait and find out what happens in the end. There’s nothing meaningful left but the final decision, a

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