First-round picks Trey Yesavage and Vance Honeycutt agreed to contracts as all however 4 of the highest 315 gamers chosen in Main League Baseball’s newbie draft final month struck offers earlier than Thursday’s deadline.
East Carolina right-hander Yesavage, taken twentieth by the Toronto Blue Jays, agreed to a $4,175,000 bonus. North Carolina outfielder Honeycutt, chosen twenty second by the Baltimore Orioles, agreed to $4 million.
Konnor Griffin, a shortstop out of Jackson Prep College in Mississippi taken ninth general by the Pittsburgh Pirates, agreed Wednesday for $6,532,025.
The 4 picks from the primary 10 rounds who failed to succeed in offers had been Lincoln East Excessive College shortstop Tyler Bell (No. 66 with the Tampa Bay Rays), Christian Brothers Academy right-hander Chris Levonas (No. 67 with the Milwaukee Brewers), Texas A&M left-hander Ryan Prager (No. 81 with the Los Angeles Angels) and College of Houston right-hander Jaxon Jelkin (No. 263 with the New York Mets).
Bell agreed to attend Kentucky and Levonas dedicated to Wake Forest.
Tampa Bay, Milwaukee and the Angels will obtain an extra choice in subsequent 12 months’s draft as compensation. The Rays get No. 67, the Brewers No. 68 and the Angels a choose after the third spherical.
MLB’s deadline utilized to all gamers within the draft besides those that exhausted faculty eligibility, a gaggle that may signal till till per week earlier than subsequent 12 months’s draft.
Just one choose from the primary 10 rounds didn’t signal final 12 months, UC Irvine outfielder Caden Kendle, a Tenth-round choice by the St. Louis Cardinals. He went to the Minnesota Twins within the fifth spherical this 12 months and signed for $147,500.
Wake Forest right-hander Chase Burns and Georgia outfielder Charlie Condon tied for the very best bonus this 12 months at $9.25 million, a document since gamers had been restricted to preliminary minor league contracts as a part of the draft swimming pools system began in 2012. Beneath the prior guidelines, the Washington Nationals signed pitcher Stephen Strasburg to a $15.1 million, four-year contract in 2009 and Bryce Harper to a $9.9 million, five-year deal the next summer season.
Burns was taken second general by the Cincinnati Reds and Condon third by the Colorado Rockies. Oregon State second baseman Travis Bazzana was taken first by the Cleveland Guardians and signed for $8.95 million.
Cleveland spent essentially the most on the draft at $19,236,100, adopted by Colorado ($19,236,100), Cincinnati ($17,156,100), the Oakland Athletics ($16,103,900), the Chicago White Sox ($15,267,500), Pittsburgh ($14,700,525) and Washington ($14,575,200).
The Houston Astros spent the least at $6,210,412, slightly below the Los Angeles Dodgers ($6,411,300), the Texas Rangers ($7,327,600), Philadelphia Phillies ($7,744,900) and San Francisco Giants ($7,942,350).
Groups dedicated $342 million to this 12 months’s group of draft-eligible gamers, up 8.3% from $315.8 million final 12 months on the deadline.
No group exceeded its signing bonus pool by greater than 5%, which might have triggered the lack of a first-round choose in subsequent 12 months’s draft. Twenty-three groups went over their pool by 5% or much less, Arizona spent precisely its pool and 6 had been beneath, led by Tampa Bay ($250,300 quick) and Colorado ($87,300 quick).
Atlanta ($7,765,000), Baltimore ($10,920,900), the Chicago Cubs ($9,802,300), Detroit ($11,921,800), Houston ($5,914,700), the Los Angeles Angels ($12,041,800), the New York Yankees ($8,134,500), Pittsburgh ($14,000,500) and San Francisco ($7,566,200) all completed precisely at 5% above their bonus pool.
No group has ever exceeded its signing bonus pool by greater than 5%.
