The Cardinals announced a deal with fifth overall pick Liam Doyle this morning. A few other notable recent draft signings (all first reported by Baseball America’s Carlos Collazo):
- The Braves reached underslot deals with first and second round picks Tate Southisene and Alex Lodise. Southisene signed for roughly $2.62MM against a near-$4MM slot value; Lodise signed for $1.3MM, around $200K below slot. That enabled the Braves to go above slot for fourth and fifth round picks Briggs McKenzie and Conor Essenburg. McKenzie received a near-$3MM bonus that’ll be the highest in Atlanta’s class. Baseball America ranked the 6’2″ lefty as the #46 prospect in the class pre-draft, putting him more as a top of the second round talent. The Braves were able to slide him to the fourth because of the bonus money. Southisene, a right-handed hitting prep infielder, placed 43rd on BA’s rankings.
- The Angels agreed to a $2.0772MM deal with second-rounder Chase Shores, Collazo reports. That’s essentially slot value for the #47 pick. Shores, an LSU product, is a 6’8″ right-handed pitcher who posted a 5.09 ERA over 63 2/3 innings in his draft year. He recorded 70 strikeouts and issued 31 walks. Baseball America had him 86th on their rankings, praising his fastball-slider combination but raising questions about his changeup and control. ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel had him as the #68 player in the class. Based on the Angels history, it seems likely that they’ll try to fast-track Shores to the big leagues as a reliever.
Shores said the team plans to develop him as a starter
Please remove the disinformation from this article or you will be hearing from Mr. Shores’ agent/lawyer (ME)
Most pitchers are developed as starters to get innings in. Also a player is more likely to sign if he thinks he going to be given chance as a starter because they are paid more than relief pitchers.
Well that clearly isn’t true seeing as there are more bullpen spots than there are rotation spots at the minor league level
Most minor league relievers are converting to reliever or hanging on to big league hope by the skin of their teeth.
And what does that have to do with the assertion that most minor league pitchers are starters?
I can’t tell if you’re just trying to be argumentative. But any player drafted where Shores is, would have some hope of developing a strong enough 3rd and 4th pitch that they can pitch 5-7 innings in a game rather than just 1.
Who has skin on their teeth?
@cp, I don’t think Shores had that much leverage to insist on starting. He was picked a full round early, despite not being at all dominant, and got full slot $. What’s he going to do, go back for his senior year and hope to eclipse $2 million? He’ll start only because it’s convenient enough to do in the minors. If he doesn’t develop a 3rd pitch, the bullpen will be his fastest way to mlb.
Ask me on Saturday morning after a Friday night outing.
It’s not about leverage. It’s good for both the Angels and Shores if he’s a starting pitcher. If he can’t get there, then you want a reliever. But he was taken at slot and ahead of guys like Dzierwa, Obermueller and Leiter for a reason.
And I thought it was called “MLB Rumors” for a reason.
“it seems likely” is an opinion not misinformation. lawyers generally know the difference between these.
Also, if you are his agent, you probably should be hearing this from the team not your client.
Stevie Steve: “Please remove the disinformation from this article or you will be hearing from Mr. Shores’ agent/lawyer (ME)”
My Spidey-senses tell me that you probably are not really Mr. Shores’ agent/lawyer.
The Angels continue to underline why their minor league system is so poorly ranked. I’m an Angels fan and rate their draft a D.
Until there is new ownership the insanity will continue.
Thanks for letting us know you don’t know anything about college and prep baseball.
The Angels had a pretty nice draft overall. Safe picks on day 1 with high floors and picks with upside on day 2.
I would rate the Angels draft a B or B-
On the other hand, the Braves draft probably gets a C+ at best. Not bad, but I think they could have done better.
This Shores fella had a 5.09 era and 9.9 k/9. His teams pitching staff as a whole had a 3.73 era and 11.7 k/9.
Not that he doesn’t have the ability to develop into something good, as BA and Kiley McDaniel obviously think highly of him but it’s strange for a college arm to get 2m while also being one of the worst performing pitchers on his staff.
As a counterpoint Bryan Woo had a 6.36 era and a 1.71 whip in college, but he was also a 6th round pick that signed for 300k. Baseball can be funny!
Good luck to Shores and the Angels. Chase Shores is a great name, here’s hoping one day he gets to play with Trout.
Roger Clemens was the third best pitcher at U of T. Schiraldi was their number one. Swindell number two.
You don’t go “safe” with the #2OA pick. You go with the best upside available. Any one of Anderson, Holiday, Doyle and nobody would bat an eye. A dude who put up average numbers at UCSB with the 2nd pick is laughable. You can bookmark this and come back. Don’t call it hindsight when it turns out to be a disaster
Ridiculous, Bremner was the top RHP literally a month into this previous season the idea that this was some crazy reach is nuts. They also announced they got him at 25% underslot just now. If they believed he was equivalent or better to Anderson (which is reasonable) than this was a homerun pick.
Yes they got him underslot because no sane person had him going #2. The excuses people will make for this organization are insane. They will never go anywhere until Arte sells the team but Perry is a massive problem too. Their evaluation on bats is fine but the last time they did this it was on Sam Bachman who was a terrible pick. 29/30 teams would not trade Brenmer for Holiday or Anderson straight up. Anyone defending this move is a burner for someone in their front office
Will see who gets the last laugh with the Angels second pick in the draft we will take a good look at him in August
@amk1920 it’s been reported that 5 teams had Bremner ad their #1 player on their board, including the Mariners.
This is because they all thought he was a prime candidate to sign under slot, while still getting a top pitcher
This was a very impressive draft for the angels. Bremner has always had top 3 pick talent even though he struggled in March this year. Saving 2.5M at the slot while likely getting their top player is impressive and it allowed them to go way overslot to some elite high school arms. It looks bad because the angels typically do exactly what a random commenter online would want. This year they were smart.
Angels player development isn’t actually bad. Their farm system is ranked so poorly because they fast track all their most talented prospects to the majors. I mean if you can imagine for a moment a fan system that has Zach Neto, Nolan Schanuel, Christian Moore, Logan O’Hoppe, Ben Joyce, Sam Bachman and Tyler Bremner all in the upper minors as many of the guys they were drafted alongside are. Then combine it with their current crop of prospects that includes Nelson Rada, Caden Dana, George Klassen, Ryan Johnson… It paints a different picture.
The problem is this team is making decisions on which player is closest to being major league ready because they lack so much organizational talent. Rather than to select the players with the highest ceiling. They might hit on a guy once in a while like Neto, but I don’t think anyone would confuse Brenmer with a high ceiling.
I would. Bremner has a plus fastball and a plus-plus change piece. Last year as part of team USA he had a plus gyro slider. If the Angels can help him rediscover that, then Bremner has a very high ceiling.
Remember the 02 angels
I remember one of them: Scott Spiezio.
Back then they could draft and knew how to supplement their team.
Today, they don’t know how to do either.
Wasn’t he in a band?
Looking forward to seeing some of these guys on the 2029 roster!!
Yoan Moncada and Luis Rengifo from Angels to the Yankees for C/3b Jesus Rodriguez and LHP Griffin Herring who says “No?”
The Yankees major league team is Niemann Marcus. Minor leagues is the Dollar Store.
whyhayzee: Now it’s the dollar and a quarter store.
I found the Yankee fan
Look at some of these later round signings for Washington……
6th Boston Smith C $50,000 slot $386,700
7th Julian Tonghini LHP $10,000 Slot $302,500
8th Riley Maddox RHP $10,000 Slot $239,900
9th Wyatt Henseller 3B $10,000 Slot $207,500
10th Hunter Hines 1B $5,000 Slot $193, 800
They saved $1,245,400 in slot money. Willits is already allotted over $11 mil and their 2nd round pick is allotted almost $2 Mi. Where will they spend that extra money?
Guys taking $10K and $5K to splay baseball. Unreal. They will need part time jobs.
Harmon(3), James(5) and Pike(19) will all require over slot deals to sign. Pike the biggest one as far as how much they’ll need to go above slot. Anything over 125k has to come out of the top 10 allocation.
Sell the team, Arte. The team is getting worse day by day you hold onto.
Shores is a very Perry pick. Outside shot he can become a starter but most likely a reliever.
Perry wants to feel like he’s going to get something out of his early picks. Even if that means sacrificing ceiling to focus on floor.
this is why baseball is messed up.
hey you are a first round draft pick. but you are getting paid less than our 4th round guy 90+ picks later. this is the only major sport in North America where teams don’t draft based on skill but cost and availability primarily.