Word: merullo
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...March he was accepted at both Harvard and Yale and thought about his options. Lentz was worried about rejecting a possible offer from a big league team after being drafted in a early round. He consulted with Lennie Merullo, a friend who ran Major League Baseball's scouting department in the Northeast and was a former major league infielder to boot...
...Merullo knows all the local guys who were thinking of signing me, and I told him that I wasn't going to sign, that I didn't want to be drafted by some team and have them pissed off at me when I'm draft-eligible again," Lentz says. "So I wrote a letter which he forwarded to all the teams...
...reclaim the eligibility of his first freshman year. Scouts still badger him with calls and the pressure is intense to make the hop to the big leagues. Lentz is so tired of it that he has made it known to major league teams that most calls should go to Merullo first...
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