Who Made Coup?

Jim Callis of Baseball America took a look at the draft class post-signing, and came up with 5 draft "coups" for the first ten rounds (1-10), and another five for the second ten (11-20). Your Pittsburgh Pirates showed up not once, but twice. This is the world we live in? (h/t to PBC Blog for the link.)

4. Robbie Grossman, OF, Pirates (sixth round, $1 million, No. 49 on BA Top 200)
Athletic switch-hitter adds to Pittsburgh's burgeoning outfield talent.

3. Quinton Miller, RHP, Pirates (20th round, $900,000, No. 158 on BA Top 200)
He shows flashes of a low-90s fastball, plus slider and average changeup.

If memory serves, Miller is the guy that was lured away from North Carolina (surely by the $900,000 among other things), and Grossman was the highly touted high schooler who fell to the Pirates in the sixth round because everyone thought he was going to college (at the University of Texas, I think). Perhaps money can actually buy love?

On a side note, ShysterBall (who lives in my hometown of Columbus, OH) is reconsidering his opinion of PNC Park after reading a New York columnist's review following the Mets-Buccos series.