Here’s a look at the latest noteworthy draft signings, with the newest moves at the top of the post. Click here for the full list of slot values and draft pool bonuses, and you can find prospect rankings and scouting reports from Baseball America’s Top 500, Fangraphs’ Top 200, MLB.com’s Top 200, and the Top 50 of ESPN.com’s Keith Law….
- The Mets have agreed to a deal with second-round pick Josh Wolf, Yahoo Sports’ Matt Ehalt (Twitter links) reports, that will be finalized when Wolf passes a physical. Wolf will land a $2.15MM bonus, well above the 53rd overall pick’s slot price of $1,370,400. The Mets drafted mostly college seniors among their top ten picks and have agreed to far below-slot contracts with several of them, creating bonus pool space for tougher signs like third-rounder Matthew Allan and his fellow high school right-hander in Wolf. The 18-year-old throws a plus curveball, and also saw a big velocity jump in his senior year that put his fastball consistently in the mid-90’s. MLB.com ranked Wolf 36th on its prospect list, with Law (46th), BA (54th) and Fangraphs (60th) also showing strong regard for former Texas A&M commit.
Just throwing it out there because I haven’t seen it in any of these posts:
White Sox have signed 29 of their 40 picks, including 7 of their top 10. The only ones that haven’t signed so far are their top 3 picks. Obviously they’re still working on numbers with their #2-3 picks before signing Vaughn. I’d like to think all 3 of them will be wrapped up here shortly.
They ought to dangle the Sept-2019 DH call up carrot to Vaughn and get him signed now.
The overall #2 pick Witt already signed. What’s Vaughn waiting for? Financials pretty much determined.
He’s probably not waiting for anything. The Sox, on the other hand, are waiting to see how much their second and third picks will ultimately sign for (or not sign). That’ll affect Vaughn’s total. I’m not concerned about him signing.
Allan should’ve been given that money