Let’s round up Friday’s draft deals of note. As always, the rankings referenced come courtesy of Fangraphs, MLB.com, Baseball America and ESPN’s Keith Law; Fangraphs and MLB.com scouting reports are available to the public free of charge, while the others require subscriptions.
- The Pirates have a deal with second-rounder Braxton Ashcraft, MLB.com’s Jim Callis tweets. Aschcraft’s $1,825,000 bonus comes in well over the slot value for the 51st overall selection ($1,382,400). The Baseball America (#58) and MLB.com (#64) analysts were highest on the reputedly athletic hurler, who’s regarded more for his projectability than his present ability on the mound. He’ll forego a commitment to Baylor to join the Bucs, who have inked most of their top picks but are still trying to work things out with sandwich round selection Gunnar Hoglund.
- Astros second-rounder Jayson Schroeder also lands over slot, Callis tweets. Like Ashcraft, Schroeder is a high-school righty who still needs polish but has shown promising tools. He’ll take home a $1.25MM bonus after being taken 66th overall, a choice that carried a $965,300 allocation. Schroeder had been slated to attend the University of Washington.
- The Brewers announced their deal with second-round choice Joe Gray, with Callis again tweeting the dollars. Gray lands right at the $1,113,500 allocation for the 60th selection. He’s another toolsy player who’ll forego a collegiate commitment, but in his case he’s an outfielder who has decided against a run at the University of Mississippi. A quality defender with power, Gray is seen as possessing significant upside — if his hitting ability can catch up to his other talents. Notably, the Brewers have yet to ink first-rounder Brice Turang. And amateur scouting director Tod Johnson suggested today that a deal is not inevitable, telling Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (Twitter link): “Obviously he and his family have to make a decision as to whether he wants to get on the field and start playing professionally, or go down to LSU and go that route.”
Is anyone doing a full list of all the draft picks that have signed?
I don’t know about a full list, but every teams’ website lists whether they signed each player and the signing date under “draft results.”
Brewers will get Turang signed. Likely over slot but Turang won’t be stupid to turn down almost 4 million to go play college ball for free and run the risk of falling next time around.
Yeah and unless you’re drafted in the T10 you’re not going to get much more than a 4M signing bonus, especially for a college player. Thats a pretty big gamble to take. At least the Brewers will get another 1st rd pick next year if he doesn’t sign.
His slot is just above $3 million without going over the cap Brewers can offer him around $3.7 million. Up to him if he thinks he can take the risk to go to college not get hurt and up his draft stock. Would be big risk to take for a possible couple extra million he could make. He gets hurt or does not produce he goes from millions as a SB to luck if he gets $100K
You can go 5% over the cap without losing a draft pick(Just have to pay a tax). So they could offer him up to 4M