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Taking A Look At Some Advisor Pairings In Advance Of 2013 MLB Draft

B.B. Abbott of Jet Sports Management is serving as advisor to many players projected to be picked early in the 2013 MLB Draft.
B.B. Abbott of Jet Sports Management is serving as advisor to many players projected to be picked early in the 2013 MLB Draft.

The 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft begins on June 6 and runs through June 8.  Teams are busy finalizing their draft boards, which includes a lot of discussions with scouts who have spent numerous hours watching high school and college baseball players perform with the hope that they will some day make it onto an MLB 25-man roster.  Many of those players have hired advisors to help them with their interactions and to assist them with the upcoming draft and negotiation of their first professional contracts.

As always, Sports Agent Blog will provide a list of players selected at the top of the Draft along with whom they chose to serve as their advisors.  In the meantime, here are some players (with their advisors) to keep an eye on over the coming week:

  • Catcher Reese McGuire – Advisor: Matt Sosnick and Adam Karon (Sosnick Cobbe)
  • RHP Braden Shipley – Advisor: Matt Sosnick and Adam Karon (Sosnick Cobbe)
  • RHP Alex Balog – Advisor: Matt Sosnick and Adam Karon (Sosnick Cobbe)
  • Catcher Andrew Knapp – Advisor: Matt Sosnick and Adam Karon (Sosnick Cobbe)
  • RHP Kohl Stewart – Advisor: Darek Braunecker
  • RHP Ryne Stanek – Advisor: Jason Wood (Arland Sports)
  • LHP Tom Windle – Advisor: John Courtright (SFX)
  • 3B Kris Bryant – Advisor: Scott Boras
  • RHP Mark Appel – Advisor: Scott Boras
  • RHP Jonathan Gray – Advisor: Jay Franklin (BBI Sports Group)
  • RHP Jonathan Crawford – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • LHP/OF Hunter Green – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • LHP Cody Reed – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • Catcher Chris Okey – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • RHP Trevor Clifton – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • RHP Tyler Bashlor – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • OF Dustin Fowler – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • RHP Dane Dunning – Advisor: B.B. Abbott (Jet Sports Management)
  • 1B Dominic Smith – Advisor: Dan Lozano
  • RHP Phil Bickford – Advisor: Greg Genske
  • OF Austin Meadows – Advisor: Casey Close

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.