Elliott: Jean made a good bet – himself, drafted 2,233 days after his previous selection

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Texte de Bob Elliott, Canadian Baseball Network, le 6 août 2025

It has been said that the game should be called perseverance.

Take Antoine Jean for example.

He didn’t have to battle a bad-hop single or a bad call on the black by the umpire.

Drafted in the 17th round in 2019 by the Minnesota Twins he turned down life-changing money for a high schooler attending Academy Baseball Canada. He said no to $495,000 US to pitch for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Initially he had committed verbally to Pitt.

At the ABC he was coached by Robbie Fatal and Maxime Hockoussen while Marc-Antoine Berube, now in charge at the ABC was his pitching coach and “big brother.”

“He bet on himself,” said Twins scout Walt Burrows who drafted Jean.

“He was a supremely confident kid, he made the decision. We talked directly. I wasn’t upset.”

And this past July 14 — a mere 2,233 days after he was selected in the draft by the Twins — Jean was chosen in the seventh round by the Colorado Rockies and given a $200,000 signing bonus by general manager Bill Schmidt and scout Garrick Chaffee.

In Jean, the Rockies gained the Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Year — the first reliever in Big 12 history to win the honour — who walked 20 and struck out 110 in 67 innings.

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