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Cardinals To Sign First-Rounder Chase Davis

By Mark Polishuk | July 15, 2023 at 12:46pm CDT

The Cardinals are expected to finalize their agreement with 21st overall pick Chase Davis today, according to MLB.com’s John Denton (Twitter link).  The 21st selection has a slot value of $3,618,200, but Davis’ bonus isn’t known since Denton has since corrected his intial report about how much the outfielder would receive.  Fangraphs ranked Davis as the 16th-best prospect in the 2023 class, with MLB Pipeline (22nd), Baseball America (28th), The Athletic’s Keith Law (30th), and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel (31st) all only slightly less enthused about the 21-year-old outfielder’s potential.

As BA’s scouting report notes, “Davis remains a divisive prospect, perhaps given his history of contact questions,” but he significantly cut back his strikeouts during his most recent college season.  This only added to a strong offensive profile that includes hard contact and the ability to hit to all fields, plus power grades in the 55-60 range.  Davis has an excellent throwing arm and looks to have a pretty safe floor as an above-average corner outfielder, with enough speed that he might be able to handle center field.

The 21-year-old Davis will look to be the latest in a long line of homegrown Cardinals position players to reach the majors, though with so many of those players now in St. Louis, the Cards’ current top prospect list is mostly pitcher-heavy at the top (with the notable exception of shortstop Masyn Winn).  While teams don’t draft to address needs at the moment, it is interesting to note that the Cardinals are adding another outfielder at a time when the club might be readying itself to move some of its position-player surplus for longer-term pitching assets at the trade deadline.

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2023 Amateur Draft St. Louis Cardinals Chase Davis

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  1. kma

    2 years ago

    Can he pitch?

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    • kma

      2 years ago

      He ought to pitch too, if he’s taken up the whole bonus pool. Way to go, Mo!

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      • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

        2 years ago

        Hey Mo, article says he has a good throwing arm!
        Larry said so too…

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  2. boknows

    2 years ago

    This must be a mistake? $6.3M is their entire bonus pool

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    • King of Cards

      2 years ago

      Yes it has to be incorrect

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    • User 2506090137

      2 years ago

      Wouldn’t surprise me if Denton got the digits messed up when getting the report and it’s supposed to be $3.6M instead of $6.3M.

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  3. gdjohnson

    2 years ago

    Can this be right? The Cardinals total bonus pool is $6,375,100.

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    • King of Cards

      2 years ago

      Yes this is some kind of a reporting error.

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    • Hemlock

      2 years ago

      I bet it is $4.3MM or roughly $700K above slot, if not $3.3MM

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      • King of Cards

        2 years ago

        It’s probably slot value. He was ranked 22 by MLB.com. No reason to think we had to go over slot to sign him. And the other picks are going to require full slot too for the most part.

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        • Hemlock

          2 years ago

          Agreed

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    • Hemlock

      2 years ago

      They yanked the amount from the story. So it must be wrong, as we have already concluded.

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  4. detroitdave84

    2 years ago

    This much money over slot seems odd. He could have gone back to school but it’s unlikely he would have walked away from nearly 4 million so his agent must have convinced St Louis he was top 10 guy next year & they were willing to gamble.

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    • aragon

      2 years ago

      Cards pick top 5 next draft!

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  5. In Seager/Hader We Trust > the 70 MM DH Ohtani

    2 years ago

    This is complete mismanagement.

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    • cardsfanboy

      2 years ago

      So true

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  6. waterdog311

    2 years ago

    This can’t be right…

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  7. ThonolansGhost

    2 years ago

    Never heard of a MLB team giving their entire bonus pool to one player.

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    • In Seager/Hader We Trust > the 70 MM DH Ohtani

      2 years ago

      Watch Wyatt Langford actually sign for less than this guy.

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  8. mlb fan

    2 years ago

    The Cardinals haven’t had a really solid everyday OF in quite some time. And that includes the “untouchable”, legendary Lars Nootbar.

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    • Hemlock

      2 years ago

      > legendary Lars Nootbar.

      I like Snickers.

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  9. King of Cards

    2 years ago

    Really excited about Davis. He looks like a slightly slower George Springer. Swing looks like Cargo. Pretty darn happy with the pick.

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    • Four4fore

      2 years ago

      2025 or 2026.

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      • King of Cards

        2 years ago

        I would be surprised if he’s not called up by July of 2025.

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  10. In Seager/Hader We Trust > the 70 MM DH Ohtani

    2 years ago

    I’m starting to see why MLB.com doesn’t immediately update signing bonus information based on random tweets.

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  11. User 2506090137

    2 years ago

    Jim Callis reporting Davis got the full slot value for the 21st pick ($3.618M).

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