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In this lesson, we're going out to Classic Park,
the home of the Lake County Captains.
We're gonna meet a now professional athlete who was a high school baseball
player just about this same time last year before he got drafted
by the Cleveland Indians.
His name is Clint Frazier.
He was named the top, number one, high school baseball player in the country, and
the Indians drafted him high and paid him a big bonus.
We're gonna see how that transition from the pre-professional
to the professional athlete manifests itself in the case of Clint Frazier.
On the other side in this same stream of videos that are going to follow.
You're going to see this person who has been emerged in the baseball business on
the ownership side, Brad Seamore.
Talk about the characteristics of those professional baseball players
that he has seen make it, and not make it and why.
So, I hope you'll find this most interesting.
We're beginning the evolution of the professional athlete,
from high school right into the professional realm.
Playing for a high school one year,
playing 140 games the next, and we'll see how he reacts to it.
And we'll see what Brad Seymour says about how those who react the best
end up making it to the major leagues and making a huge career out of it or not.
So thanks for your continuing attention.
I hope you enjoy this video.
Kyle, welcome everybody.
So we're proud to welcome Clint Frazier, number one pick of the tribe last year.
This is our class representing the professional athlete, and
Clint thanks so much for being with us after a big Captains win.
What was it like out there today with that big crowd?
You had a great game and congratulations on the same.
>> Thank you.
It was unusual.
We don't have a lot of fans come to the game, so
to hear the fans in the crowd that was ecstatic.
>> That's great.
How about the transition?
Let's start there.
You're the number one high school player last year is the country,
played some rookie ball in Arizona last year.
How's the transition been for you as make this next huge step to full season,
140 game A-ball.
You go from being a normal high school kid and someone throws a dollar amount at you
and you have to make the decision on whether you're gonna go to college or
you're gonna accept the dollar amount and go live off on your own.
And being 18 years old that's not the easiest process to go through.
You have to mature a lot as a young man and really, you see life differently.
You see, if I do this, what are the repercussions?
And if I don't do this, what are people gonna think?
And, just for me to accept the amount of money and come out here and
be part of the Cleveland Indians,
I feel very greatly honored that I get to represent them everyday.
>> Well, it's an honor to have you part of the Indians family.
So take us through the draft.
You were the number five pick overall in the entire world-wide draft.
You had a full scholarship offer.
What made you pick the one or the other as the draft?
And you only have like a five minute clock to make that decision with your agent.
Maybe start with your advisors going into the draft.
What voices were you listening to?
What agent and advisors did you have.
Let's start with that.
>> I had a lot of people that surrounded me.
I had a couple professional baseball players who are in the major leagues right
now that helped guide me through the process that I'd be going through.
I had my high school coaches who had been through it again
with a former major leaguer, Brandon Marshall with the Oakland A's right now.
A lot of them were just saying, what do you want to do?
And I said I wanted to play professional baseball and
if I got the opportunity I was gonna take it.
And you can't necessarily tell teams, if you draft me I'm gonna go,
cuz you're draft stock goes down.
So you have to play the card that I'm going to college.
So they'll offer you more money and
they'll try to pay you more money to get you away from that scholarship.
And all along I wanted to sign, but
I had to blow a face lie to these guys and tell them I want to go to college.
So I could get my signing bonus up and
the biggest reason I signed was I went number five overall,
and to go to college, there's only four other spots I could go up.
And it ran the risk of me not getting the opportunity to go in the top five again or
go lower and that would have been a very prideful,
a very pride issue day if I went lower the second time around.
And I was three years older and
I was blessed with the opportunity that I had and I could not pass that up for
any other reason, and I wanted to play professional baseball so I signed.
>> That's a great answer.
Take us through that five minute back and forth.
That's all you got, right?
Your agent's there, now you have advice, professional advice.
What's the over and the under as that 5,
7 minute period happens after you get drafted number 5 by the Indians.