Rick Ankiel has lived an extraordinary baseball life. Think about his path for a moment. Ankiel was a high school phenom — in his senior year at Port St. Lucie High, he struck out 162 in just 71 innings. He was probably the most sought after player in the amateur draft, but his agent Scott Boras set the price tag so high that no one would take him in the first round. The St. Louis Cardinals waited until they couldn’t wait any longer and drafted him in the second round, then paid him $2.5 million — the highest signing bonus for any player in that entire draft.
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