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Where did he say this? I was on every conference call

That's a good deal on Larson imo.

He's already had Tommy John though. I don't think he's an injury risk right now more than any other pitcher would be from being a pitcher.

This is a great example.

What is significant? It's enough to not take $150K on day three it seems.

Oh see I don’t. There was risk that Cease wouldn’t pitch well. Crochet is healthy and awesome. I don’t really see much risk with him outside of the innings load, shutdown etc.

Really? I don’t feel this way at all. They’ll kill these trades or they won’t make them in my opinion. They didn’t want to incur the risk on keeping Cease but that was a good deal and by far their best offer. I believe he did this with Cease already so I don’t see why not.

I’m pretty sure they overslotted Burke, Cannon and Keener in round 3. They definitely overslotted Calvin Harris in round 4, Oppor in 5 and Wolkow in 7. They saved $600K on their first rounder last year though. Doesn’t appear that they did that this year.

I don’t know enough about the players. BP had Saucke at 53 overall and Sox scouts felt he really unlocked something with a swing change this year. McLain is a tweener but he’ll definitely hit. I don’t think they absolutely overpaid. I just think players have leverage now and the team wanted these players so they paid them.

They really like McLain, Saucke and Antonacci

Here's my guess on remaining bonuses: Hagen Smith $8 million Caleb Bonemer $2.8 million Blake Larson $1.4 million Nick McLain $1 million That takes them right to $13.2 million.

The White Sox have signed picks 4-20 and committed $2,078,000 against their bonus pool. That means that they still have $13,244,965 with the first four players left to sign. I'm guessing that they are all overslot.

Okay so I have no idea this year. I was expecting this one to be like $25K. This probably explains a lot.

What’s a normal amount? I think Jackson Appel and Phil Fox as money savers are fine and I like the 11th rounder. He should be ranked. Was kind of surprised that the 12th rounder wasn’t ranked as well.

This is true. It’s almost they decided they wanted McLain, Saucke and Antonacci and did what was necessary to land them all. In the end, it’s 10 players off of the BA 500 plus guys like Shepardson and Fox who could move quickly in relief roles. Lots of teams punted picks this year because there weren’t 10 rounds of players worth slot values. You can still get value out of those picks though. Jordan Appel can help minor league pitchers get better and Phil Fox could move through minors quickly etc. Tim Elko was a “punted pick”. Those guys in 6-10 were basically their picks in 16-20. That’s how you have to look at it.

Skenes is absolutely the exception though. In this draft alone there are multiple instances: Andrew Dutkanych, Gage Jump and Thatcher Hurd all turned down millions out of HS. So did Arkansas 2B Peyton Stovall. If someone is offering you millions to play baseball, take it in the vast majority of cases.

These guys get old and ultimately have to take like $10K in the draft though. MLB isn’t going to wait.

I think increasing $$ allotted for day 3 could help. Most of these kids turning down money are making short-sighted decisions. It’s generally better to start a pro career and get to that potential 1st contract sooner.

Burns and Condon have same agent. He broke the record with both guys. I was told on Sunday that Oakland had a predraft deal with Kurtz and that Bazzana was falling to 5 if he didn’t go 1. That’s why he took a haircut at 1. KC and STL were also bidding on Smith so I’m very curious to see the actual bonus there.

Something like Basallo, Norby, Beavers and a tiny sweetener for Crochet and a reliever makes sense for both teams imo.

It’s just all of your picks added up. First pick in rounds 2-10 and then also 10th overall. Should be $12 million or so.

Okay well 3-5 are legit guys and so is the outfielder from the 12th. They added nine position players.

I think the first three probably will be.

What was the strategy that they should have employed instead? I’m very curious. They’ll have the first pick in rounds 2-20.

The issue with this is that you lose the pick and the bonus pool space anyway. In theory, if Bonemer was supposed to get $3 million and didn’t sign, the Sox would lose the ability to spend the slot of $2.2 million at 43. They could only use whatever the overslot portion was.