Today’s most notable signings from Day Two (and beyond) of the amateur draft. As always, you can get more background on these players via the prospect rankings and scouting reports compiled by Baseball America, Fangraphs, MLB Pipeline, The Athletic’s Keith Law, and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. As well, here is MLB Pipeline’s breakdown of the slot values assigned to each pick in the first 10 rounds, as well as the bonus pool money available to all 30 teams.
All signings reported by MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis, unless otherwise noted…
- The Marlins signed second-round pick Cody Morrissette, with the Boston College shortstop agreeing to the assigned slot price of $1,403,200 for the 52nd overall pick.
- The Diamondbacks went slightly above slot to sign Adrian Del Castillo, the draft’s 67th overall selection and Arizona’s pick in Competitive Balance Round B. Del Castillo, a catcher from the University of Miami, signed for a $1MM bonus, topping the 67th pick’s slot price of $976.7K.
- The Angels made a very notable signing outside the top 10 rounds, agreeing to a $1.25MM bonus with 12th-round pick Mason Albright. As Callis notes, this is now the highest bonus given to a player beyond the first 10 rounds since MLB adopted the current draft format. $1.125MM of Albright’s bonus will count against the Angels’ total $9,295,900 spending pool. Albright is an 18-year-old southpaw who had received some rankings (107th from McDaniel, 122th from Pipeline, 134th from BA) far above his station as the 351st overall pick, and the Angels clearly had to go above and beyond to get Albright to break his commitment to Virginia Tech.
Glad to add Albright. Had to figure that’s where the savings from Bachman were headed.
Now the Bachman signing makes more sense.
Yep and there are multiple reports of Rocker’s medical records being less than stellar. And he’s asking for a million over slot.
In a draft this deep (basically 2 drafts in one) this strategy makes sense.
I typically don’t like this strategy, but the Angels got early 4th round value for a 13th round (.?) pick.
It makes getting a probable RP pick more palatable.
I’m worried that Boston won’t be able to sign Jud Fabian. He may return to Florida and try to get into the first round
There has been no rumors about him one way or the other since the draft. He supposedly said at one point that he wanted a $4M bonus. The Sox can probably offer him $2-3M at this point.
Boston probably won’t be able to sign him, they signed all their guys for slot and there wasn’t any savings so unless Fabian accepts a 2 million dollar bonus he isn’t signing.
He wouldn’t be a big loss and has major bust potential. Guys who hit for a low average and strike out a ton in college typically do not put it all together in pro ball. Good 4th-5th defensive replacement though.
I just checked and the Sox have about $3.1M left to spend, but they still need to sign their 4th round pick Hickey and their 11th round pick Kavadas. If Fabian doesn’t sign, they will likely make big offers to three late round picks that were considered tough signs.
They lose the value 9f Fabians pick if he doesn’t sign though.
Pirates, signed white. Psu commit thought of a very tough sign
Yes, really a great signing. Draft was already a great one for the Pirates, just icing on the cake.
Isn’t it a bit ridiculous for the trade deadline to be on July 31st and the draft signing deadline to be on August 1st?