LMAO. Sam Abbott right? Is he even with the Sox organization anymore? 

Just now, OneDog847 said:

LMAO. Sam Abbott right? Is he even with the Sox organization anymore? 

Yea he's still in AZ. 

3 minutes ago, turnin' two said:

Yup.  Gotta save money to buy guys out of their water polo commits.  

I mean the other real talent. ?

3 minutes ago, SoxAce said:

Yea he's still in AZ. 

On the baseball diamond or in the pool? 

5 minutes ago, OneDog847 said:

On the baseball diamond or in the pool? 

Has he made a real splash? *rimshot*

Orioles drafting Connor Gillispie.

 

 

So assuming the 10th round pick is a $10,000 pick again and if the Sox signed the first 4 picks to slot here is the savings available for later picks:

 

I think penalties kick in if you go beyond 5 percent of your pool so almost 550k more if 1-4 net at slot. 

5 minutes ago, Sox Fan In Husker Land said:

So assuming the 10th round pick is a $10,000 pick again and if the Sox signed the first 4 picks to slot here is the savings available for later picks:

 

Wasn't it reported that Dahlquist (3rd round) was looking for about 2 mil?  That would take up pretty much all of the savings at this point.  

1 minute ago, turnin' two said:

Wasn't it reported that Dahlquist (3rd round) was looking for about 2 mil?  That would take up pretty much all of the savings at this point.  

Vaughn and Thompson collectively will save us about $1,000,000 IMO.

So, when are we going to draft actual prospects again?

1 minute ago, Jose Abreu said:

Vaughn and Thompson collectively will save us about $1,000,000 IMO.

It will be interesting to see.  Personally I don't know why Vaughn would sign for anything significantly under slot.  Thompson maybe, he seemed to be taken a bit higher than predicted so there may be some savings there.

1 minute ago, BackDoorBreach said:

So, when are we going to draft actual prospects again?

Next year?

The Sox haul seems kinda underwhelming after the first 3 picks to be honest 

So how quickly does the excitement of being drafted in the 5th round as a college senior turn into the realization of "shit, I'm still only getting a 10K bonus"?

1 minute ago, BackDoorBreach said:

So, when are we going to draft actual prospects again?

Maybe never? We are entering no mans land anyways. Most of the guys drafted going forward have little chance of ever making any real impact. 

8 minutes ago, BamaDoc said:

I think penalties kick in if you go beyond 5 percent of your pool so almost 550k more if 1-4 net at slot. 

$578,275 should be exactly 5% of the $11,565,500 pool for the Sox.

 

Edited June 4, 20196 yr by Sox Fan In Husker Land

Not everyone is phoning it in.  The Twins got themselves a dude in the 9th round.

At this point this was probably the expected outcome here. 

So the Sox took 4 legit prospects and then a bunch of useless college seniors? 

 

9 minutes ago, turnin' two said:

It will be interesting to see.  Personally I don't know why Vaughn would sign for anything significantly under slot.  Thompson maybe, he seemed to be taken a bit higher than predicted so there may be some savings there.

Because if we didn't take him he was probably falling to 5, so we should be able to offer just over that slot and he would be getting more than if he doesn't take that.

Just now, OneDog847 said:

So the Sox took 4 legit prospects and then a bunch of useless college seniors? 

 

Sox need to sign these legit prospects. It's not like this is an unusual approach.

Lord you can tell some of the newbs here who don't understand how this process works in the draft. Been like this for a while. 

1 minute ago, SoxAce said:

Lord you can tell some of the newbs here who don't understand how this process works in the draft. Been like this for a while. 

Ha. all you have to do is look at the MLB draft tracker since round 5. rounds 6-9 have like one top 200 pick per all teams per round.