WEDNESDAY: Faedo’s deal is an above-slot arrangement worth $3.5MM, tweets FanRag’s Jon Heyman.
TUESDAY: The Tigers have signed first-round draft pick Alex Faedo, MLBPipeline.com’s Jonathan Mayo reports (Twitter link). Financial terms aren’t yet known, though the 18th overall pick carries a slot value of $3,214,600. Tony Paul of the Detroit News reported yesterday that Faedo was in Detroit and intended to sign his first pro contract, likely after taking a physical and finalizing any pending financial details.
Faedo is a 21-year-old right-hander out of the University of Florida. He was rated as the 10th-best prospect in this year’s draft class by Baseball America, with MLB.com (11th), Fangraphs’ Eric Longenhagen (13th) and ESPN’s Keith Law (27th) also giving him high grades. Law’s slightly-less-optimistic report notes that Faedo lacked showed an over-reliance on a slider and lacked command, making him a question mark as a future starting pitcher.
Faedo did have minor surgery on both knees last fall, however, which could explain his somewhat modest results this season. The BA and MLB.com scouting reports note that Faedo’s fastball, slider and changeup have all gotten generally good reviews from scouts, with his fastball reaching 93mph regularly and touching 95mph this spring once Faedo seemed more fully healthy.
The Tigers have worked out deals with the rest of their top-10 draft picks, as per MLB.com’s DraftTracker.
Hes this years Nola. He’ll see big league time by the end of 2018
Great pick by the Tigers. Throws 93-95 with the best slider in college baseball. Put up a 2.26 ERA while pitching in the SEC. 157 K in 123 IP with only 44 BB. Why he fell that far I don;t know, but the Tigers got a huge win there.
I could not agree more. He it’s definitely top tier talent and has proven himself on a big stage. Given some time to polish his other secondary pitches and command inn the minors and he could easily be a 2-3 pitcher with 1 upside. excellent pick for the 18th slot, despite his height.
he’s had several knee surgeries so that could be a concern. Still has talent, but injury plagues, especially this early could be alarming