Luke Heimlich - will any team draft or sign him?

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https://sports.yahoo.com/convicted-child-molester-likely-chosen-mlb-draft-151015468.html


For more than a year now, teams have grappled with the idea of Heimlich. He is Oregon State’s ace and one of the best college pitchers in the nation; he is the signatory of a guilty plea to molesting a 6-year-old female relative when he was 15. He is a left-hander whose fastball tops out at 97 mph; he is an endless supply of bad headlines, treacherous questions and awful publicity. He is worthy of a second chance, with low recidivism rates for the crime to which he admitted; he now says that despite the guilty plea, he didn’t commit that crime, which only confuses the matter more.
 

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That's a stigma that will never go away, and I think this is an issue that many players in locker rooms, especially those with daughters, would take exception. Having two daughters and one on the way, I would be very concerned if I was a player on the same team as him.
 
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