Let’s round up the latest draft signings …
- The Reds have inked Christian Roa to an at-slot deal, MLB.com’s Jim Callis reports on Twitter. The Texas A&M righty takes home just over $1.5MM to go pro. Fangraphs’ Eric Longenhagen was rather bullish on his outlook, grading Roa the 34th-best player available. It seems the Reds were also optimistic that Roa’s growing velocity would stick as he enters the Cincinnati system.
- Two more Giants draft picks have gone under contract, with the team announcing the under-slot signings and Callis covering the bonuses (Twitter links). Supplemental second-rounder Jimmy Glowenke, a middle infielder out of Dallas Baptist, went for $600K ($953,100 slot value). Fifth-rounder Ryan Murphy, a right-hander from Le Moyne, secures $25K ($379K slot value). Glowenke placed 110th on the Baseball America board on the basis of his strong hit tool, reasonable power outlook, and solid defensive chops.
- The Diamondbacks inked fourth-rounder A.J. Vukovich to a $1.25MM bonus, per Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com (Twitter link). That’s well north of the $483K pool allocation. He had been slated to head to Louisville to play third base, but will instead enter the Arizona system. MLB.com ranked Vukovich as the 86th-best player in the draft pool, explaining that the athletic youngster has existing and projectable power.
- The Pirates also went over-slot, locking up third-round choice Nick Garcia, Callis reports via Twitter. He lands a $1.2MM bonus after being taken 79th overall ($780,400 slot value), thus completing the Pittsburgh draft business. The Bucs obviously felt the Chapman University righty was worth a little extra coin. Most draft pundits graded him as a late-second round talent. BA was highest at #56, citing the D-III performer’s “stuff, delivery, youth and fresh arm.”
- Joining the Angels is David Calabrese, who secured the $744,200 slot value associated with his third-round selection, Callis tweets. The Canadian high-school outfielder will forgo his commitment to University of Arkansas. He could just be the steal of the draft, if the analysis of Keith Law of The Athletic proves correct. Law was far higher on Calabrese than the rest of the draft pundit cohort. Calabrese is quite youthful and exceptionally fast, making for an intriguing blend of baseline characteristics. Law believes that Calabrese has the makings of a quality hitter and could grow into some pop.
angels scouts must have been doing great jobs until the cheapo owner cut’em all.
What’s up with the Red Sox NOT signing their draft picks…? It’s starting to make me worry that they aren’t going to be able to work something out (particularly for Blaze Jordan) — they did sign their 1Rd pick for under slot so you’d assume the purpose was to sign Jordan. But as all of the other teams and wrapping things up… still no word from the Sox for picks 3-5
Text John Henry and ask.
He’s waiting for the NESN ratings of the 100th rerun of 2004 games, and the latest soybean market quote…..he probably thinks they drafted Michael Jordan…..
Seriously, tho, they have until August 1 I think…they’ll likely get it done. You can lob lots of criticisms at Henry, but I don’t think that not investing in the on field product is one of them.
No I agree I definitely think Henry (and the rest of the ownership group) has done a more than decent job investing in the team. And thanks — I didn’t know how far away the deadline was to sign guys. That gives me more confidence they’ll get it done! The only thing that was worrying me is like they did already sign their 1rd pick to significantly below slot — so you would have thought that given the extra $ they have it would’ve been simple to then go ahead and give that $ to Jordan. But hopefully like you say it’ll still get done. I just think that Jordan could be a really interesting/high ceiling prospect given his prodigious power and particularly young age — so hopefully they work something out with him soon! Not that the timing matters all that much as there won’t be a minor league season for him to play anyway!
Nick Garcia is a RH pitcher
Giants Ryan Murphy is indeed a RHP pitcher, but the link inaccurately shows him as a 3B with the wrong stats.
It’s not actually showing the “wrong stats” it’s just linking to the wrong Ryan Murphy. Apparently there is also one at Southwest Baptist (or whatever the school is called) who apparently must be a 3B who’s evidently only had 1 AB haha — not even sure why that guy has a baseball reference page but hey I guess you can’t accuse them of not being throughout