Those are my two favorite picks this class. Weingartner's hit tool might not get there but the upside is immense.

44 minutes ago, Capn12 said:

So everyone except the 20th rounder. Thats quick work.

Who they said was contingency in the event they couldn’t sign someone else.

16 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:

He got more money than Thome.

8 hours ago, BamaDoc said:

Man, while the Braves were complimented on their draft class and shrewd spending of their pool, I kinda feel for their senior signs picks 8-10. "Congratulations we are drafting you to be an Atlanta Brave! By the way we are going to pay you $500". They didn't get 500k, they each got 500 bucks. I think I might refuse to sign on principal and let them lose about 200k from their pool. I guess that ends your career but wow.

I thought you were being facetious but just looked it up. They literally paid some college kids $500 bucks each. That’s just straight up shitty of them. Would it kill you to give them 10k each, let em take their family to a nice dinner and buy some new clothes or whatever?

9 hours ago, BamaDoc said:

In order to sign #11 at over slot, you have to know two things: first that 1-10 will sign because if one doesn't that pool of money is lost. Secondly you need to know what the $ value is so that you can offer #11 (and hopefully more picks 12-19) a firm amount. The implication being that 1-10 are done deals as well.

So what happens if one of your, say, round 8 punts, decides to go back to school for a 5th year or just give up baseball rather than take the 10K. You lose the whole allotment? I would think the $500 Braves might be at risk.

Ugh why did I start this

2 hours ago, GreenSox said:

So what happens if one of your, say, round 8 punts, decides to go back to school for a 5th year or just give up baseball rather than take the 10K. You lose the whole allotment? I would think the $500 Braves might be at risk.

You would lose the slot value for example 200k and the ability to go 5% over without penalty so total loss would be 210 from your pool.

Atlanta Braves On SI

Braves Set Record When Signing 2026 Draft Class

The Atlanta Braves did what they had to do in order to put pen to paper on who they feel is a prime draft pick

Edited 20 minutes ago20 min by caulfield12

Braves did all that maneuvering with #1/2 and 8-10 ($1500) picks to go way over on slots 3/6/11

But many had slotted AJ Gracia is the 20s.