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Jordan Bastian ‏@MLBastian 20m Indians have drafted team owner Paul Dolan's son, Peter, out of Gilmour Academy in the 33rd round of the MLB Draft.

Jim Callis ‏@jimcallisMLB 28s 1-1 pick Brady Aiken agrees w/@Astros on $6.5 mil. Ties Jameson Taillon's record for largest @MLBDraft bonus given to HS P.

QUOTE (ScottyDo @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 10:59 AM) Ahhh okay that explains it. I was really struggling to wrap my head around that one. Thanks! Essentially MLB takes and assigned a value to each individual draft pick. For example, Say Round 1, pick one is $7 million. Round 1, pick two is $6.5 million, Round 1, pick three is $6.0 million, etc. all of the way down to the last pick of the 10th round. They then take all of the picks a team has, and add up all of those assigned values, and that is a teams draft allotment. Any contract in the first 10 rounds counts fully towards that number. Then after round 10, any contract over $100k, has just the portion over $100k, also added to the pool (so if signed for $150k in round 15, $50k more gets added to their total). So after all those things are added up, they have to be under the allotment assigned to the team, or they start seeing penalties based on how far over you are. If you are less than 5% over, you get a 75% fine on your overage. Over 5%, they start taking away draft picks.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 02:02 PM) Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 1m Kendrys Morales reached agreement with the #Twins What a waste for the Twins.

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 12:58 PM) Celtics have 4 Number 1's in next two years so they will probably offer 1 each year and Green and/or Sullinger and Bogens. Bogens is cap clearance. Love will have to say he wants to resign there for it to really work.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 09:28 AM) Laumann on the Score in about 5 minutes...if you can't get enough of him. HIghlights?

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 08:37 AM) Do those putting Chris Beck high up on their lists know he has struck out a mere 35 batters in 75 AA innings this year? Granted there's a possible explanation in terms of concentrating on his fastball, and he seems to get a lot of groundballs, but that still scares me. Especially coming off a season when he struck out just 57 in nearly 120 innings at high-A. Read up on him, and why his K numbers are artificially low.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 07:56 AM) I can't find anything that says defin.itively whether or not there are penalties for going over slot on an individual pick. I do know there are penalties for going over your total allotment for the draft There are no penalties for going over on an individual pick. Penalties are for going over your full draft allotment. YOu could literally give all of your entire allotment to one player, not sign another player over $100k, and pay no penalties.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 07:59 PM) The fact that Jonathon Martin legitimately tweeted this is one of the most ridiculous things Ive seen in sports in a while. RT @J_Martin71: With that said… C’mon bruh. Drink a Gatorade & get out there Why? The guy is the poster child for the meatball, jock, fratboy football player. I'd be more surprised if he didn't have something stupid to say.

Clark, Brian Kent State (OH) LHP Junior.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 04:03 PM) Just remember it's a VERY brief synopsis about what actually happened, and it puts a little too much emphasis on only a few people. That was kind of the point. It was more supposed to be background on the main individual players of WWII, and how WWI and the lead up to II made them into what they were in II.

Ziznewski, John Long Island University (NY) SS, 5th year senior.

Jacob Peter ‏@JWPeezy4 5m So unbelievably blessed to be selected by the @whitesox it is a dream come true and I can't wait to see where the journey takes me! #Sox

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 03:18 PM) Getting more reps hasn't helped Alejandro De Aza. Oh man. It didn't help one guy. No one should ever practice again.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 02:54 PM) Getting good jumps? No, not really. Getting good jumps is all about getting good reads. Getting good reads is recognizing the ball off of the bat, which is absolutely able to be helped by reps.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 02:37 PM) Reading balls of the bat and getting good jumps is much more instinct than coaching. It is also a lot of repetitions.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 02:34 PM) Dang, we are getting to the players with no write-ups. This is our underslot savings, as he is a college senior.

From now on, all bad jokes must be coded with spoiler tags. That solves two problems.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 02:11 PM) at 6'7" 210 this dude is probably wire thin, right? That is Jack Mcdowell/Chris Sale territory.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 12:12 PM) Tommy John surgery already for Fry And there is your underslot signing #1.

I'd get familiar with this list. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/top-20...p;vkey=news_mlb

QUOTE (Charlie Haeger's Knuckles @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 11:09 AM) Will the Sox face a potential penalty if they go over slot, IF they stay under their total allotment? As long as they don't go after total allotment, they are OK. The first dollar they go over starts a 75% fine. If they get more than 5% over their total allotment, then starts the draft pick losses. The Sox total this year is $9,509,700, meaning they could go $475,484 over their allotment, or $9,985,184, before they lose a draft pick. If they spent their full allotment they could go over, without hitting 5%, the true cost to the organization would be $832,097, including the fines.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 10:51 AM) You are probably in love with Davidson's potential, and you probably loved the Reed trade when it happened. Fact is, his average was between .240 and .280 throughout his minor league career, going back to 2009. Then he goes downhill this year. Fact is, this is his 6th year of pro ball. Fact is, the star of Montas appears to be rising, and I say this objectively. He has a long way to go, but he fits the description of prospect; Davidson does not. Things might change later for both players, but right now any ML franchise would love to have Montas; Davidson, not so much. The fact is you are basing this on about five starts for Montas, while dismissing an entire year of Davidson without any thought. While you also note that Davidson is in his sixth year of pro-ball Montas is in his fifth, and hadn't really put up numbers to look at until this year. It probably isn't a bad idea to let the guy go a few months before declaring him a better prospect than a guy who was a BA Top 100 guy for last year.

Jon Morosi ‏@jonmorosi 12m The Tigers have a minus-50 run differential in their last 17 games . . . Folks, that is hard to do.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 10:33 AM) Chris Longenecker of BA's top 10 BPA: This sounds like us. No. 61 Brett Graves, rhp, Missouri The second-highest-ranked college player left on the board, Graves is an athletic strike-thrower (1.8 walks per nine) with a fastball that sits in the low 90s with life, touching 95, and a curveball that shows above-average potential.