VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2025-07-14
“Those are the rules, and those teams made payroll decisions knowing the consequences. But itâs still disappointing to me that the biggest markets in the game were not in the first round.”
Jim Bowden · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-14
Jim Bowden expressed disappointment that major-market MLB teams were absent from the draft's first round.
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