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2022 MLB Draft Thread

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13 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

He's not going to miss much development time but there are other things here to woory about.  I don't like the small frame, the max effort level and that he was also hurt his sophmore year. He has a pretty big hill to climb.

That and only 62 innings in his 2 years of college.

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    You're not supposed to get upside like this with the 26th pick.  

  • I don’t think selecting Schultz is going to end Longenhagens jokes about how Shirley only selects players within a drive from his house

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Tampa has had a strange draft. 

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1 minute ago, Timmy U said:

Tampa doing Tampa things.

They draft athletes.

Rumors that Toman is going 77 to Toronto

3 minutes ago, fathom said:

Rumors that Toman is going 77 to Toronto

And there he goes

That blows! Wonder how much he will sign for? 

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7 minutes ago, fathom said:

Rumors that Toman is going 77 to Toronto

I was told they weren't that in on him. 

How does the MLB draft go in terms of what each team can afford and what players can sign for?

Wow. I figured Toman was going to school. That's a great get there for Toronto.

Sox pulling an Angels and taking 20 pitchers

1 hour ago, The Beast said:

How does the MLB draft go in terms of what each team can afford and what players can sign for?

There is a slot value for each pick and each team is given a total amount of money to spend commensurate with the sum of each of their pick’s respective slot values.

 

Players don’t necessarily have to sign for the value of the slot they’re taken though which leads to lots of gaming so teams can sign over slot players later in the draft. To this end, you’ll see a lot of teams draft college seniors in rounds 3-10 and sign them for a $10k bonus (Minimum signing bonus), leaving them the rest of the slot money to spend elsewhere. i.e. a player signs for $10k but his pick has slot value of $500k, the team now has $490k to spend elsewhere. They do this several times and can now sign a player for $1mil +. 
 

that’s the broad strokes version of how it works anyways. Hope it helps

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2 hours ago, flavum said:

Sox pulling an Angels and taking 20 pitchers

Not a bad thing imo. 

7 hours ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

They draft athletes.

Except for the HS first baseman

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49 minutes ago, bmags said:

Except for the HS first baseman

He was an all-conference hooper.  Even their 1B are athletes!  :lolhitting

I would like to see the sox try on Trey Dombrowski and see if they can get a velo jump during his progression. 

Seems like Jake Madden feels more sox.

Otherwise, I guess Cameron Smith.

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I'm eyeing up some college catchers. Hayden Dunhurst, Dominic Keegan or Matt Wood. They have to address the dearth of catching in the system. 

5 hours ago, Joshua Strong said:

Not a bad thing imo. 

Seems like it would be easier to trade surplus pitching to fill a specific positional need rather than the opposite.

47 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

I'm eyeing up some college catchers. Hayden Dunhurst, Dominic Keegan or Matt Wood. They have to address the dearth of catching in the system. 

I think sox should try with Dunhurst, but I know in 5 years I'll be bored by him hitting .500 OPS in birmingham.

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Rocker signed for $5.2M. That's a savings of about $2.3M and could be enough for Prock Porter. 

Rocker signs for well under-slot.

4 minutes ago, bmags said:

@Y2Jimmy0 any chance we'll get Schultz signing amt today?

If nothing else we will be able to guess it by the types of players we pick today.

 

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8 minutes ago, bmags said:

@Y2Jimmy0 any chance we'll get Schultz signing amt today?

It's for pretty much slot.

That would be outstanding if we sign for slot. Everyone was saying he was asking in the $3-4 million price range. 

some great picks in the compensation round, would have been nice if Hahn did his job and offered Rodon the QO.

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