Sleepy Harold

Their lastest mock has the Sox selecting Bailey, but notates that they're looking at the top high school hitters/pitchers as well.

Probably. But at the moment he's in somewhat of a similar situation. He's still under contract in Japan (or at least his team believes he is) and hasn't been cleared to sign with a MLB club, so he can't really do anything at the moment until those get resolved. I'm sure teams are "talking" with him and he may ultimately have a preference on where he wants to be, they all just need to wait for the green light from the league.

That's correct, the vast majority of the AB's he took was in their "farm league", although he did apparently get some time with the regular club. Link

A lot of the players internationally have had "agreements" with teams for multiple years before they're actually allowed to sign, so I don't see why not.

This is fun.

Freeman has only hit more than 35 HR once, and it was last season. He knocked out 34 in 2016, so it's not like you're that far off lol. I'd be more than happy if Vaughn was able to produce Freddie Freeman numbers in the majors.

He played in Panama with their amateur program, so he's a well rounded player but wasn't really known prior to this year. He's a physical freak though, 6'5"/225 with power potential and he runs well for his size. I wrote a piece about him for FutureSox if you'd like some more info.

Yeah exactly. I'd guess that's his contract floor at worst, barring injury or what have you.

Tin foil hat theory: Mookie countered with those figures because he's dead set on testing FA. He threw out some Trout figures that if Boston agreed to pay him that, he'd be fine with staying. Asking for Trout money is ambitious, but I'd wager he doesn't quite crack that.

Everyone is signed.