Yesterday, the father of Washington quarterback Jake Locker said that if his son was going to get a deal done with the Los Angeles Angels, “it’s probably going to get done [yesterday].”
Those feelings came to fruition for the Lockers as the QB reached a deal with the Angels that keeps him under the MLB’s control for the next six years.
No financial details of the contract were released.
Even as he is now technically a major leaguer, Locker has every intention of playing out his final two years of eligibility at UW.
“It was just an opportunity that presented itself and it was something I didn’t believe would take away from me as a football player here,” Jake Locker said last night according to the Seattle Times. “I want to play football and that’s what I’m going to put my focus into and the Angels have been great with me, worked with me, and they understand that and we’ll go from there.”
Locker was coy when asked whether his contract will require him to play baseball next summer.
The junior will retain his college eligibility even as he’s signed with a professional team because, one, he didn’t retain the services of an agent to negotiate the contract -- his father served in that capacity -- and, two, he gave up his scholarship and will pay his own way through school, likely with the help of the Angels as part of the contract.