MLB: A’s draw Oklahoma quarterback into round one

The Oakland Athletics have pulled Kyler Murray from the University of Oklahoma with their first lap pick in the MLB Draft 2018. The Outfielder is also the quarterback of the Sooners and should actually be the successor of Baker Mayfield, the first overall pick in the NFL draft.

Murray was last year’s backup of Mayfield, who ultimately won the coveted Heisman Trophy for the best player of the year in college football. This year Murray was planned as the new number 1 in the position. Now, however, he is facing a difficult decision.

“I’m not focused on the baseball football situation right now,” Murray told reporters in a telephone conference on Monday. However, he said that it was his plan to play football in 2018.

Murray could sign with the A’s and still play football for the Sooners this year. Or he could give up football altogether and play for the A’s in the Minor Leagues this year. However, his football scholarship would remain valid even in the case of a professional baseball contract if he complied with his academic requirements.

Since Murray was the ninth pitck overall, he would now be entitled to a signing bonus of $4,761,500.

His current football coach, Lincoln Riley, assumes that his QB 2018 will be available to him. “I knew when we engaged him. The whole Murray family kept their word in every respect,” Riley said last week, adding that Murray would not play baseball in the summer.

As a baseball player this season, Murray beat .296 with ten home runs, 47 RBI and 10 stolen bases.

This article was published without previous view by the Major League Baseball.