Draft Signing Deadline Open Panic Thread
by jcb9 on Aug 17, 2009 9:29 AM PDT
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PrintThe deadline to sign draft picks is at 9 PM Pacific time tonight - 11 hours, 35 minutes from when I'm typing these words. Zack Wheeler is not yet signed. OMG WHAT R U DOIN SABES GIT R DONE!!!!!
Tiresome, overused, year-old McCoven in-jokes aside, the deadline's coming up. Aside from Wheeler, the Giants have several interesting late-round picks still unsigned, there's drama over whether or not Steven Strasburg will sign with the NationLOLs, and most of the other top 15 picks haven't yet signed either. Here's a place to discuss developments, report wild (no doubt Twitter-based) rumors, and run around screaming in panic as the deadline approaches. Well, maybe not the last one if Wheeler signs early in the day. Although in that case, we can always panic about signing Jamaine Cotton instead.
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Update
Mayo saying Wheeler and Giants are less than 1 Mil apart. Looking good compared to others…
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I’d be shocked if Wheeler doesn’t sign.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 17, 2009 9:35 AM PDT reply actions
Well, yes.
I would be too. But I thought it would be handy to have a place to post updates – and there are some other top picks whose signing is more in doubt.
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no doubt an open thread is a good idea. I wasn’t commenting on that, just my opinion about the likelihood of Wheeler not signing.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 17, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
I doubt there will be enough updates for a Wheeler panic thread. I don’t think the media really cares that much about draft picks they’ve never heard about. The Nationals should have a panic thread for sure. I’m panicking myself. I want Strasberg in the NL East pitching against the Mets, Braves and Marlins for the next six years, not with the Padres next season.
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Currently
He’d end up with Pittsburgh, KC, or Baltimore before the Padres. Obviously that could change between now and the end of the season.
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Could change between the end of the season and next year’s draft, for that matter, depending on how well he pitches in whatever indy league he goes to, and what other prospects come along.
That's true
But it would be entirely on him failing, not some other prospect tearing it up. Harper might be the only guy who could be higher rated, but he’d be taken by the Nationals at 1.
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But even in a best case scenario he falls lower than 1-1 which is what he is now, which is why I’ve always believed that Boras will agree to a deal at the deadline as long as it’s not an egregious low ball. The only way to increase his worth above 1-1 (and most hyped 1-1 of all time probably) is to get him declared a FA and there’s just no way for that to happen (at least there’s no way Selig is going to do it). So in the end, he has no leverage beyond getting the Nats to bid against themselves in order to increase his value. Boras knows that, and he’ll sign at $16-18 mil with a major league contract and perhaps some he has to be in the majors by… clause.
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Agreed
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I dunno about that
From everything I’m hearing, if he could be had for 16-18 mil he’d already be a Natinal
by microwave donut on Aug 17, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
And I can’t think of many things more hilarious than if the Nationals failed to sign Strasburg this year and Harper next year. I guess that would probably be the breaking point in the current system.
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If both of those guys failed to sign you would see the owners push hard for a hard-slotting system, and I think it would be very possible to get the player to agree to it. That is the main reason I think Strasburg will end up signing, because Boras knows a high profile prospect like him failing to sign could give a lot of weight to the people pushing a hard-slotting system, and if that were to happen it would cost him a ton of money.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
There was a boatload of crazy Twitter updates on draft day, so I’m sure we’ll see some of the same today.
Anyway, the point of the post is to talk about all draft deadline stuff – Strasburg, Tate, and so on – not just Wheeler.
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I hear he has Gudger College as his backup, as well.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
I hear Kirk Van Houten’s a hell of a pitching coach.
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by SoFa King Mike on Aug 17, 2009 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I really hope the Rockies don’t sign Matzek. That would make me smile.
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We share the same feelings.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
If Dustin Pedroia played in Seattle, not many people would be talking about him.
GET THAT VORP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
You guys probably saw this already, but perhaps others are interested.
The summary is that Oregon’s coach thinks there’s a good chance Matzek will be a Duck, while some friend of Tyler’s thinks he will sign. The Purple Row crowd is concerned. Some speculate the Rox are broke and purposely drafted a kid they knew they couldn’t sign, in order to save money.
I hadn’t seen that, thanks for the info.
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Man, who is this PEDRO Sandoval guy?
He keeps popping up on sports sites everywhere. From CBSSports’ weekly preview thing
Rockies at Giants, Friday. Who would have ever dreamed back in late May, when the Dodgers had a nine-game lead in the NL West, the Rockies were firing Clint Hurdle and the Giants’ Pedro Sandoval had yet to be dubbed “Kung Fu Panda” that this series could play so big? But the Dodgers are slumping and the Rockies and Giants inch closer while tangling with each other in the NL wild-card chase. Pretty good matchup as Rockies ace Aaron Cook is slated to face Jonathan “No-Hit” Sanchez.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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by SoFa King Mike on Aug 17, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I knew Bengie was slow but...
…I didn’t realize they’d started pinch-running for him on home runs.
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by EliminateMe on Aug 17, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
wait, didn’t that actually happen last year?
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
it did, Emmanuel Burriss scored a run as a pinch runner on Bengie’s home run
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
To be fair, though...
When Bengie was lifted, the call was it was it a single off the wall. It wasn’t until after Molina was lifted that instant replay changed the call. But the umps wouldn’t undo the replacement.
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by BruteSentiment on Aug 17, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
In their defense, there are totally like 9 of them Spanishy-type people on our team.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
I know I’ve told this story before, but I used to know a guy who constantly called Roberto Alomar Raul Mondesi. And he was a Mets fan, and this is when Alomar was a Met.
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as far as I know he’s never actually denied having AIDS. He and his lawyers have always said things like this: “He’s healthy and would like to keep his health status private. We’ll do our talking in court.”
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02132009/news/regionalnews/alomar__no_aids_154979.htm
I had never heard about this story til earlier but thats what I found this afternoon. Sad either way
Jason Walls Signs
Don’t know if its big news or not but 19th rounder Jason Walls out of Troy University has signed. A while ago Andy Seiler in the well done draft recap he put together stated:
If the Giants can get their early picks signed, and if they can add someone in the Walsh-Walls-Mormann run, this has to be an unqualified win for this draft team.
His Assessment of Walls:
19. Jason Walls, RHP, Troy, #567 overall, 6’5’’/205: I was pretty high on Walls coming into the draft, as I placed him on my sleeper list and shadow drafted him in the 15th round. He’s got a good fastball that was described to me as full of life and a slider that was described to me as late-inning material. Put those two together and we have a late-inning reliever on our hands. However, Walls also has command problems and a windup that might lead to injuries, so teams naturally shied away from his pro body and natural stuff. Long-term relievers with command problems aren’t incredibly desirable. There’s a good chance Walls heads back to school for his senior year, as he’s yet to sign. DOB: 2/22/88.
Hopefully, in addition to Wheeler of course, we can get Walsh, Mormann and Seastrunk signed before the day is out.
Control problems
49K, 40BB, 12 (!) WP, 6 HBP in 64.1 innings. That, my friends, is poor control. Especially for a 21-year-old college junior.
He’s definitely a project, but if they can straighten out his mechanics the wildness should decrease markedly. I think the Giants are basically taking a flyer because of his velocity, the potential of a ++ slider, and his size. But flyers like that are typical for college juniors taken in rounds after the 15th.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Yeah, I recognize that you don’t get elite prospects with a 19th round pick. I just read the above blurb that referenced “command problems” and thought I’d look up his stats to see just how bad those problems are. Then I was pretty amused at the thought of a guy who averages a wild pitch per start.
They might not be considered elite prospects, but really good players can come out of late picks. I actually wonder what Brian Wilson’s draft report was? Does anybody have that handy (which would be pretty random but cool)?
Hard thrower with a great breaking ball. His coaches were shocked he signed with the Giants because he was recovering from Tommy John surgery.
by Dan from NM on Aug 17, 2009 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Wilson was looking to be a late 1st round or supplemental round pick before blowing out his elbow about two months before the draft. The Giants were generally commended for taking a great flyer on a guy who, if he bounced back from TJ as expected would be a steal for a low round pick (the Angels did much the same thing with Nick Adenhart, although Adenhart was a HS pitcher which I believe changes recovery rate stats).
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Cool
I’ve said this before, but in addition to the guys listed I’d also love to see the two Western Oklahoma guys – Jamaine Cotton and Randolph Oduber – signed.
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Great news x 2
Not only is it great that we got Walls in the fold, but this signing tells me that the Wheeler deal is done and just waiting for approval by MLB League Office to be announced. If we were still haggling with Wheeler at this late hour, then there’s almost no way we’d be wasting time trying to sign some mid-round pick like Walls.
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Jason of Troy.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
That definitely has photoshop potential.
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Teams should show guys who aren’t willing to sign this article. Unless you want to work at costco, just sign.
VOTE SANDOVAL
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Jesus Christ, if someone offered me $5 million to pitch, I’d pitch, clean their toilets, bake them cookies, and whatever else they asked me to do.
SIGN THE GODDAMN CONTRACTS KIDS. It’s a good deal.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
But what if you did none of that for 2 months and then you would get $6 million? The system is broken, I can’t really blame the kids for letting their agents get them as much money as possible.
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Hindsight being 20/20 and all. I agree that the system is bad. I just know how shitty it is to work for a crappy living, and if I had millions of bucks waved in my face I’d pounce.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
The players should have dreams of rapid rise to the majors; long dramatic careers; championships, awards, riches, and fame. But the agents of these top draft picks should, I would think, always have the worst case scenario in mind — what if they flame out, never make it, and this bonus contract I’m negotiating right now is the core of their financial well being for life. $5 mil sounds like an obscene lot when we’re talking about these kids, but when my wife and I go to financial planners and their telling us what we should have saved and untouched in the bank in order to able to retire securely in our 60s, I understand perfectly well that if this $5mil is the only payday this kid ever gets (which is quite possible) it’s really not that much. Not bad, certainly, a payday I’d like to have, but still these guys are right to try to maximize it.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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If you don’t mind (if this is too personal, my apologies and you can just ignore this), what type of numbers are the financial planners throwing around for retirement and what area of the country are you in? I’ve never really thought about final numbers, I’ve just been saving as much as I can so far.
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Well, without going into numbers, what we’ve been told is you need to be prepared to finance your lifestyle for about 30 years, so one quick way to calculate is, if you’re making enough currently to subsidize your life, how much do you need to essentially pay yourself your current income for 30 years. Hopefully, house payments are done with when you enter retirement, but obviously you have to be able to handle maintenance and emergency maintenance on your home, pay all bills, figure that you’ll need to buy one or two more cars in your lifetime. Then of course, there’s healthcare. We’re told you should figure paying 90% of your lifetime health costs in your retirement years (and for any of you who’ve gone through the experience of having children, 90% of your lifetime health expenses is a truly horrifying number).
And then, when you got all that covered, you can start to think about disposable income and the things you’d actually LIKE to do with your retirement (trips, toys, baseball games, etc).
In summary, between colon-cancer screening and financial planning meetings, it’s a real toss up as to which was the more painful part of turning 50.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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Damn
That’s a scary thought. Thanks for the info.
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@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
In principle, I agree...
…but I also think the kids would be smart to look at the players who did not sign who never got a really good shot again, either losing money in bonus offers or never making it at all. It really is a risk proposition for both sides.
That said, this is a problem that needs to be addressed on the administrative side.
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by BruteSentiment on Aug 17, 2009 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
It sounds like the contract that the Rockies offered Harrington was terrible, 5 million but over 8 years and 3 arbitration years, can you imagine any player signing that? Maybe there are, but imagine if we had got Tim Lincecum to sign that. Or Posey. We’d be dancing in the streets. It’s too bad that his agent sounds inept and the Rockies sounded overly stubborn; I am sure they could have used a really good starting pitcher a few years back
Yeah I should say making the best deal possible is in no way the same thing as not making a deal. While HS kids certainly can and do improve their status at the college level (re: one Mr. Strasburg), you have to look at the value of where you were picked. Top 10 picks who don’t sign have a very very poor track record of recouping that loss. Luke Hochevar made it work, although I think looking back he really was very very lucky in the circumstances of his re-entry draft year from nearly every standpoint.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
exactly
If I was good enough at baseball to get drafted, I’d probably just accept the first contract offered and go join the team that day. 5 mill is enough that you’re pretty much set, whether baseball works out or not.
VOTE SANDOVAL
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by raisingcain on Aug 17, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I suspect it’s easier to say that when you’re not in the position of being able to potentially make a lot more.
In pretty much every situation, people try to make as much money as they can manage. That’s how capitalism works.
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That’s true, but if I was fairly satisifed with the team, and the money wasn’t outrageously below the slot rate, I’d make sure to sign – sure, it might not happen immediately, but I would never ever ever decline to sign and go play a year of independent leagues just in hopes of a little more money.
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by raisingcain on Aug 17, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
in my current mindset and life experience, no
I’d take the millions and be happy. But then again, I’m not surrounded by agents and parents and friends hyping my worth and telling me to ask for more more more. I also can’t throw more than like 60 MPH and my hitting could use some work. So there it is.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Pre-emptive NATILOLNALS
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 17, 2009 11:03 AM PDT reply actions
Panic in Tampa!
Here’s a surprise. A local Tampa reporter is reporting that the Rays won’t sign either of their top 2 picks. Imagine the panic if that were us! I’d heard that #2 (Diekroeger) was in love with his Stanford committment and unlikely to sign, but the loss of their #1 pick (Washington) surprised me. Wait, now I see that his agent is Boras – so I’m not so surprised.
http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/comments/rays-come-up-empty-with-top-two-picks/
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I was just about post this
Ouch.
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Wow
Rays Draft FTL. I hope they’re smart enough to save that money they would’ve spent this year and put it toward’s next year, considering how many picks they may end up with.
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by BruteSentiment on Aug 17, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Even worse for the Rays is that they likely will have to trade Carl Crawford and/or Scott Kazmir in the off-season because they won’t be able to afford their payroll going into next year.
Yeah, the Rays really got shafted by the timing of the economic collapse. They made it to the WS last year and have a young and exciting team, but didn’t at all reap the benefits of a big jump in attendance that normally follows from that. The Tampa Bay area has been really hard-hit because it depended so much on tourism and construction.
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Washington Nationals
The Nats are getting a bad rap. Last season they offered Aaron Crow more money than other pitcher in the draft and Crow rejected the offer. This season it is rumored the Nats have offered Stephen Strasburg $17M and Strasburg has yet to accept.
With Strasburg, they drafted perhaps the most hyped amateur prospect ever – and he’s represented by Boras. They had to know he would break the bank, and if they weren’t prepared to pay absurd amounts they should’ve drafted Dustin Ackley or something.
With Crow, wasn’t the difference between their offer and Crow’s demand pretty small?
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It is absurd
But not unexpected. All I’m saying is that they didn’t exactly go into the draft not knowing what a nightmare signing Strasburg would be, and if they weren’t prepared for that they should’ve drafted someone else.
I suspect he’ll be signed right at the deadline, though.
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Also, where is $17 million coming from?
What I’d read is that their offer was worth $12.5 million.
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Fair enough
$12.5 million comes from here: http://twitter.com/SI_JonHeyman/status/3366657683
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Strasburg needs to come down off the mountain and just accept that he’ll break the bank by oh, $6-7 million and be glad to be a franchise savior. I don’t know why he can’t be happy to have all this talent, praise, worship…unless he thinks he deserves to be paid like a Las Vegas hotel act.
Unless this guy is going to pitch and saw women in half in-between innings, Boras is going to put him on the Matt Harrington path.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
by sectionop92 on Aug 17, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s worth noting that the Rays signed Glassman, Bailey and Malm, so they did bring in some talent.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 17, 2009 12:11 PM PDT reply actions
The Orioles have signed their 11th and 22nd rounders for almost $2 million combined.
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And Kentrail Davis got $1.2 million, the most of any supplemental round pick thus far.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Our remaining unsigned picks
As far as I can tell, anyway. Errors abound in this kind of thing.
1) Zack Wheeler RHP
18) Jonathan Walsh OF
20) Mitch Mormann RHP
21) Zach Wasserman 1B
23) Adam Champion LHP
28) Jamaine Cotton RHP
31) Diego Seastrunk C
34) Brandon Kirby OF
42) Nick Schwaner 3B
43) Matt Jansen LHP
44) Joe Lewis 1B
45) Kyle Kramp RHP
47) Michael Ness RHP
48) Randolph Oduber OF
49) Austin Goolsby C
Assuming Wheeler signs, that’s at least 36 of our draft picks signing this year.
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By god, there are some fantastic names in there.
Kyle Kramp? Diego Seastrunk?
I’m glad I’m not a GM, cause I’d just spend the last 20 rounds of the draft picking guys with the most off-the-wall names.
by The Double Deuce on Aug 17, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
My favorite
Was a guy picked by the Marlins: Sequoyah Stonecipher.
Maybe the greatest name OF ALL TIME.
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That is amazing. A name right out of a DFW novel.
Joe Martinez: You are cool.
When it's all said and done, America will be remembered for three things: The Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
David Foster Wallace?
There was actually a character in his first novel named Stonecipher Beadsman.
Joe Martinez: You are cool.
When it's all said and done, America will be remembered for three things: The Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
His full name, by the way
Sequoyah Trueblood Stonecipher
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I am in love with that name.
Joe Martinez: You are cool.
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The Giants drafted him in 2007, IIRC. He did not sign.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Too bad
They could’ve changed the team name to the San Francisco Stoneciphers. That would’ve been awesome.
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Yeah, I looked at that list and was pretty disappointed at the thought of missing out on Adam Champion, Mitch Mormann and Austin Goolsby (who incidentally shares his Munsters-sounding name with one of Obama’s econ advisers).
Wasserman won't sign according to Seiler
21. Zach Wasserman, 1B, Lake Shore HS (MI), #627 overall, 6’6’’/225: Wasserman has already announced he will honor his college commitment. That makes this pick kind of worthless, doesn’t it? DOB: 8/30/90. Commitment: Louisville
Grab Some Pine Meat!
Cardinals get Shelby Miller for $2.9 million.
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That’s a good deal for them, as the rumor was that he was asking for > $4M on draft day.
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last year Posey was asking for $12 million on draft day. I doubt anybody has ever received what they were asking for on draft day.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
On draft day, I was asking for a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.
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True, but my point was that Miller fell in the draft, like Buster did, because of those rumors, so the Cards’s gamble paid off without having to spend extravagantly. Especially when you consider what some HS pitchers that were rated below Miller as prospects, and drafted in much later rounds, have been getting. Props to their front office for getting a steal at #19. This guy should immediately be their #1 rated prospect.
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A’s were able to sign Stassi for $1.5 million.
It never occurred to me that one man could play with the faith of 50 million.
Interesting
Seems like a lot of folks didn’t expect him to sign when the A’s drafted him.
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Grant Green is still unsigned though, right?
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Yeah
The A’s are still waiting on him and Krol.
It never occurred to me that one man could play with the faith of 50 million.
by imovermyhead on Aug 17, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
that really pisses me off. When the A’s drafted Stassi I was certain he would wind up at UCLA
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently Donavan Tate is in San Diego for a physical and may be close to signing.
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I was always pretty sure Tate would sign
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, he left UNC last week.
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OH THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO SIGN CRABTREE ARE THEY
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Report: Crabtree's dog advises him to ask for $750 K more
For rawhide bones.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Crabtree deserves a knee to the groin
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 17, 2009 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Or a...football to the groin?
It would make a good movie!
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by groug on Aug 17, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Crabtree would have to sign his contract. Then say how much he wanted to be a Niner so he could just play football…money be damned and how much he cried about his decisions at his agent’s house. While having that undertone that he doesn’t mean it, because he has three speech and body language coaches.
Plus he’d need to have the Rev. Tony Dungy defuse his personality for show purposes.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
Under $1 million was the report. Which can mean a lot of things.
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tree fitty
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by SoFa King Mike on Aug 17, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that story was just a cynical plant by the front office to keep the charade of “tough negotiations” alive, let a reporter have a “scoop”, and to keep the fans interested. It provides cover for not having an agreement announced sooner.
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I just realized
Tanner Scheppers doesn’t seem to have sign yet. L. O. L.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 17, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Well this deadline isn’t relevent for Scheppers as he’s got until next years draft to sign. It does make you wonder how much of their (both him and Crow) baseball careers they’re willing to give up to gain a bit more money though. They could conceivably miss 2 years playing time which is pretty inexcusable and has a good chance of costing them far more money in the long run.
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Good point
Although, you need to reduce the Scheppers remark down to 1 year, since with his injury he was never going to pitch last year at all.
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This should make everybody feel better - including A's fans
The latest from Peter Gammons:
There are rumblings that the commissioner’s office wants to hold off the announcement of some of the bigger deals so they do not impact others. GMs say the Padres have had a $6.7 million deal with OF Donavan Tate done for five days. The Tigers reportedly have had RHP Jacob Turner done at $6.7 million, and second pick LHP Andrew Oliver done at $1 million. The Giants are very close at $3.4 million with RHP Zach Wheeler. The Yankees have signed OF Slade Heathcott. Oakland (USC SS Grant Green, 13th pick) and St. Louis (RHP Shelby Miller, the 19th pick) are considered locks to get done. There are conflicting reports on Colorado signing LHP Tyler Matzek, and Texas signing LHP Matt Purke (rumors had $4 million despite Tom Hicks’ bankruptcy). Cleveland and North Carolina RHP Alex White seemed deadlocked, but there was still time and the Indians could go to near $2 million. Tampa Bay and OF Levon Washington seemed far apart, as well.
So far, he’s been right on Heathcott (signed), Miller (signed), and Washington (not signing).
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
If this all holds true, then we’ll have gotten a steal with Wheeler at #6. $3.4M would be basically 50% less than Jacob Turner and Tate (and only $500K more than Shelby Miller) went for.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I hate this duplicity. This is a faked dog and pony show in some regards to make this deadline significant for press purposes. If Selig knew what he was doing, he wouldn’t pretend the sky would fall if these numbers got out.
Selig acts like Newt Gingrich, as if the Internet and fact checking do not exist.
It's always Noonan somewhere.
I was really bitter with the drafting of Wheeler over Matzek, although it wasn’t anything against Wheeler. However, if he signs for much less than Matzek (or if Matzek doesn’t sign at all), I will happily retract all complaints.
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Wheeler should be next
If Gammons’s numbers are correct, then Wheeler’s signing should be the next big one from the 1st round that gets announced. It seems that MLB is staggering them to be incrementally higher in $$$, and since Miller was just announced at $2.9M then Wheeler’s $3.4M would be next in line.
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This doesn’t make sense to me. Bud wants to hold off on announcements because the bigger deals might impact other deals except it seems like all these deals are huge. It doesn’t seem to matter at all.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 17, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
it doesn’t make any sense. It’s pure idiocy
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I mentioned this on Gameday, but
BP thinks 3-6 top picks won’t sign and the system might “break:”
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=1370
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this sounds like typical Kevin Goldstein hyperbole to me
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
so does Purke and Washington not signing break the system? or is it just another Kevin Goldstein hyperbole to point and laugh at?
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, pretty much the same as what happened last year, when Aaron Crow and….shit, who was the guy the Yankees drafted last year?
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Gerrit Cole
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by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
4 Hour Countdown
This will possibly get verrrry interesting, although I don’t think Wheeler will be one of the interesting ones.
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Game's over, and hey, 2 hours until the deadline...
I’m not going to be panicing…but, hm…
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This should be the start of the flood.
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by BruteSentiment on Aug 17, 2009 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Donovan Tate has signed
No terms announced.
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#9 pick Jacob Turner signed with the Tigers
$6.25 Million
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Tigers are throwing money around like crazy
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Not what you think
The Turner deal is only $5.5M guaranteed, and it’s paid out over 5 years with a heavy backload!
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I meant the total
All these have come through recently:
Tigers Sign Fields For $1.6 Million.
The Tigers have signed No. 9 overall pick Jacob Turner to a major league contract with a $4.7 million bonus (payable over six years, with $1.6 million paid in 2014) and a guaranteed value of $5.5 million. Depending on how quickly he reaches the majors, he could push the total value to nearly $7 million.
Tigers Sign Oliver For $1.495 Million.
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Yeah - that's a lot
They’re not the only team going nuts. The Yankees have spent big for lesser talent. They gave their #1 pick top 5 money, even though nobody had him anywhere near top 15 talent.
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SIGNED WHEELER FOR $3.3M
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Excellent Deal
now get the Georgia native down to AZ to get a few innings in.
My compliments again to Mr John Barr and his team
YES
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by Speedforthewin on Aug 17, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/08/giants-zack-wheeler-agree-to-terms.html
Tim Lincecum will win 1 Cy Young, and 11 Tim Lincecums. He's already got his one.
by icantdrive55 on Aug 17, 2009 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions
point to Callis for breaking the story
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
WooHooo!
I was close – I predicted $3M on the Zack Wheeler thread earlier this morning.
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O's sign Givens
Apparently the O’s just signed their #2 pick Mychal Givens for $800,000. Just 2 days ago they said they wouldn’t sign him. I guess Givens must have blinked and lowered his price.
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And Baseball America just died.
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Blame Selig.
It’s usually his fault.
LinceCain and pray for rain .... or for someone to take Zito off our hands.
you would think the MLB Network would have extensive coverage of this. Instead they have Vasgergian talking about games
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 8:59 PM PDT reply actions
not sure that is precedent setting money
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
just goes to show not to take these pre-draft demands seriously
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
This year the players blinked
But last year the owners blinked. You never know how it’s going to turn out.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
yeah, the Giants blinked and gave Posey the $12 million he wanted before the draft
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I still think ours was better. Especially when you look at how little we had to pay in signing bonuses. I think we got the most talent for the least amount of $$$ than anybody else. Although, there were probably a few teams that got more talent than us overall, by throwing around big $$$ to later round picks.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
what did all the experts say before the draft?
He would sign right at the deadline for around $15 million. Andy what do you know?
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Officially it was $15.67M
And Ackley also signed – but no money report yet
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everybody ended up signing. what a shock!
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
while Aaron Crow is still sitting in the corner
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by Speedforthewin on Aug 17, 2009 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Did I miss something?
By my count there were 3 first rounders that didn’t sign:
Aaron Crow – Royals
Matt Purke – Rangers
Alex White – Indians
Although Crow has until next year to sign since he’s graduated and had one year of independent ball.
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White signed. The deadline doesn’t apply to Crow. It looks like just Purke
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
You repeated my info on Crow
Although Crow has until next year to sign
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I forgot one
One we left out was Levon Washington for the Rays. That was a solid rumor from earlier today.
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I stand corrected
Callis is now claiming that Alex White signed at the deadline for $2.25M
http://twitter.com/BaseballAmerica/status/3376241425
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LeVon Washington
Unless that changed late in the day – I was out at the time of the deadline.
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You're right
And you’ll see from above that we both realized it and posted it at the same time.
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by say hey nation on Aug 18, 2009 7:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m sure most of these guys signed 2010 deals.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Posey signed at the deadline and played in 2008.
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he has a quicker path to the majors and the 40 man roster.
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by say hey nation on Aug 18, 2009 7:28 AM PDT up reply actions
That's fine
Better to be safe with the new toy. We don’t want to risk him trying to heat it up the last 4 weeks of the minor league season just to impress us. Let him get trained in our AZ camp now, get some work in the Fall and then report to ST with the other pitchers next February.
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Any indication whether or not we got any of the later round picks
I assume no.
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It's possible, but not probable
There were so many high-profile signing announcements flying around that a mid-round pick signing for < $300K could have slipped past.
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I hope the Giants picked Wheeler because they really think he's a better prospect than Matzek
And not because, as speculated around draft day, to save money and to get Wheeler signed quickly. $600,000 would be an insane amount of money for me, but in baseball terms it’s not exactly earth shattering.
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it is funny (and predictable) that Matzek so thoroughly caved rather than holding out for “precedent setting money”
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
You also have to remeber he would have had more leverage if he was picked 6th, so that 600,000 more could have easliy of been 1 or 2 million
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by say hey nation on Aug 18, 2009 7:30 AM PDT up reply actions
The Rays and Jays were the big losers
The Rays didn’t sign either of their first 2 picks (Washington and Dierkroeger).
The Jays swung and missed on 2 highly-regarded pitchers that they drafted in the 1st round supplemental (James Paxton of Un. of Kentucky) and in the 2nd round (Jake Eliopoulos out of high school in Canada).
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I'll add the Rangers to that list of losers
They didn’t get Purke, and they might not get Scheppers. They have until next year’s draft to get their money problems straightened out and find about $2.5M for Scheppers.
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A great night!
The Giants win, the Fodgers lose, we gained 1/2 a game on the Rox, and we signed Wheeler. Why can’t every night end like this?
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
There probably aren’t enough good players named Wheeler to justify signing one every night.
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B/C that would require us to be behind the Rockies in the standings
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by say hey nation on Aug 18, 2009 7:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I sign him for 3.3 million tops.
He needs to start pitching in the majors by 2012 lincecum, cain, wheeler, bumgarner and sanchez, lincy and cain will be expensive, hopefully wheeler and bumgarner will be lower priced at that time and sanchez will be medium priced. Hopefully zito will be on the DL. 60 day.
It hurts me to type this, but...
Isn’t Cain only team controlled thru 2011?
Obviously I hope he’s signed to an extension. I think he likes it here in SF.
Nobody likes money
I think he wants to sign with the Mets.
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I was just thinking…it seems out of whack that Wagner Mateo, the consensus 2nd best hitter in the Latin American amateur market this year, signed with the Cardinals a month and a half ago for $3.1 million, while Tony Sanchez gets $2.5 million, Matt Hobgood gets $2.4 million, Wheeler gets $3.3 million, Tyler Matzek gets $3.9 million, and the Cardinals own first rounder Shelby Miller gets $2.9 million. When you compare what various amateur players are getting to sign, $3.1 million seems like a ton of money to be giving to a 16 year old kid with very limited experience playing organized baseball.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 17, 2009 11:37 PM PDT reply actions
Yeah, that’s what happens when you have a free market and all of the teams can sign a player as opposed to just the team that drafted him. Would be interesting to see how they’d do if the international players were included in the draft process as they are in the NBA.
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But the Latin American market only really exploded in terms of big signing bonuses in the last 3 years. Before then the brightest stars were lucky to get much more than $500K. I think what we’ve been witnessing is the classic case of “chasing the market” of “gold rush fever”. Some teams had good success mining the under-appreciated Latin American market (mainly the DR) starting back about 10 years ago, then some more teams noticed and jumped in about 6 years ago, then the past 3 years every team noticed and just piled on indiscriminately. That’s why the Giants and a few other smart teams took a step back this year. Too many teams chasing too few actual big-time prospects.
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Don't forget Michael Ynoa last year
Him and his $4 mil.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 18, 2009 12:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Quick Question:
Is Starsburg’s College stats that much better than Lincecums?
Last year of college:
Strasburg: 109 IP 65H 16 BB 11 WP 16.1 K/9 1.6 BB/9 25 Total Runs
Tim: 125.1 IP 75 H 199K 63 BB 13 WP 14.3 K/9 4.5BB/9 39 Total Runs
So ok his stast are better. Is the Pac-10 harder than Mountain West?
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Well, definitely the Pac-10 is a much tougher league than the Mountain West. But I would say the reasons Strasburg is considered a better prospect than Timmy was at the time would be:
1) Much lower walk rate (even accounting for the weaker competition)
2) Throws harder (hits triple digits on occasion)
3) Not considered as much of an injury risk. He’s much bigger and has a relatively orthodox delivery. The fact that Tim has proved to be durable doesn’t change the fact that his perceived fragility was probably the biggest knock on him as a prospect.
comparing college stats is not a very good way to evaluate pitching prospects
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 18, 2009 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I know, I just wondering how an ametuer ges 15 mil!
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by say hey nation on Aug 18, 2009 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, if you think there’s a 50% chance that he’ll give the Nats three years as an average starter, that’s what he’s worth. Since that seems pretty pessimistic, I’d guess he’s worth considerably more.
Yes, a FA starter is worth that
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by say hey nation on Aug 18, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Scott Boras agrees!
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