Here are today’s most notable signings from the first few rounds of the draft. Scouting reports and pre-draft rankings can be found courtesy of MLB.com, Fangraphs, Baseball America and ESPN’s Keith Law (the latter two available to subscribers only)…
- The Orioles have agreed to a deal with the 37th overall pick, Oregon State shortstop Cadyn Grenier, Steve Melewski of MASNsports.com tweets. Financial details aren’t yet available, but the 37th choice comes with a slot value of $1,923,500. The 21-year-old Grenier was one of the heroes for an OSU team that just knocked off Arkansas to win the College World Series. Grenier hit an impressive .319/.408/.462 in 273 at-bats this season, though Law was the only one of the abovementioned prospect evaluators to place him in the top 50 entering this year’s draft (No. 46). Law noted then that Grenier could end up as a starting shortstop or a quality utility infielder in the majors.
Earlier updates:
- The Royals have signed 12th-round pick Rylan Kaufman for a hefty $722.5K bonus, MLB.com’s Jeffrey Flanagan reports (Twitter links). Kaufman is an 18-year-old high school left-hander from Texas, and he stands 6’4″ and owns a fastball in the 92-93mph range. Since Kaufman was picked beyond the 10th round, $597.5K of his bonus will be counted against Kansas City’s draft bonus pool. While the Royals entered this year’s draft with the most pool space ($12,781,900) of any team, they already have over $7.6MM of those funds spent (hat tip to Clint Scoles of Baseball Prospectus) and still need to sign their three of their top seven picks. Two of the unsigned players are Kansas City’s top two selections — 18th overall pick Brady Singer and 33rd overall pick Jackson Kowar.
When is the deadline to sign draft picks
6 july
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@clintscoles is a great twitter follow for Royals fans. Also more kudos to this site. I do not understand all the nuance of baseball moves, but I still try to figure it our while following the Royals.
I’m getting more and more concerned that Stewart will fail to sign with Atlanta.
Unless they run out of money (you get a 5% overage until they take a first round pick), then he will sign before July deadline. There’s always a few stragglers. Can he go back to school? If so, he has leverage and he’s using it.
hes a high schooler
Don’t worry guys, you have a huge pool , you got a ton of competitive balance picks these guys will sign soon. Its not like the old days where they held there rights until the following June. I think they have like two more weeks, mid July. The Pitchers have so much mileage on them from college that most don’t even play this year. They play winter ball or take the rest of the year off. Singer will probably take the rest of the year off if they think he has too many innings. If not, he will get a few starts in August.
Great information. Thanks.
I’m worried about Turang. A high upside middle infield bat is exactly what we’ll need in a few years likely. I don’t want to continue having that gap for the next 5 years…
We have about 4M… 1M more than his slot which is a lot to turn down, and if he doesn’t sign we can use that 1M on a high schooler we drafted in the later rounds and get another 1st rd pick next year.
Kaufman could play at Kaufman? Nice
I had the same thought, but it’s “Kauffman Stadium”