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Texas Tech lefty Dustin Richardson's name (5th rounder) is bolded on the BA database which i believe means hes signed. Hes also the only name in the whole dang thing thats bolded (i think) so it could just be a typo, or they havnt updated their signings yet
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What? Miami was so desperate for a QB they had to reach for a guy whos alternative was Arkansas STATE?
Quarterback hasn't been Miami's best position for some time. The last good one was Dorsey. Brock Berlin, indeed.
Oh i know but they can usually at least bring in some 4 or 5 star guy (Wright and Berlin were both like this)...hell at least a 3 star not an Ark St recruit
Yup. When Devlin switched (which happened after Coker fired the offensive co-ordinator, a totally justifed move -- but one that really screwed up their recruiting), they were up a creek. Now, thanks to the Mets, they've lost their paddle.
Stegall's no dummy. He knew that with Wright and Freeman around, the odds were slim he'd ever get on the field as a freshman. And he also knew that this year, the Hurricanes will be recruiting QBs heavily -- to say the least. They will sign at least two QBs much stronger than Stegall. Signing with the Mets for 7th round money? A no-brainer.
To quote a source not often seen around here, the CSULB Daily 49er (the student newspaper):
Longoria signed a non-Major League contract soon after being drafted and is expected to start his professional career with Tampa Bay's single-A club in Visalia, Calif. Although, Longoria expects to be in a Devil Rays uniform in the forseeable future.
"I'm hoping two years," Longoria said in a conference call after he was drafted. "The organization is giving me a good chance to move up. I feel that a couple of year is all I will need."
Pitcher by any other name
Jeff Locke (of Conway, N.H.), also a left-handed pitcher, was selected in the second round with the 51st pick by Atlanta. When this pick occurred, it was thought that Jared Locke was no longer available.
"How many times do yo•think that will happen? Same first initial and same spelling for the last name. And both left-handed pitchers," Locke's father, David, said."
Isnt this why they use the draft ID and redraft #s? To avoid this.
You'd think that he'd negotiate the contract with the Mets first, so that he didn't lose leverage.
But Jared, every time a phone rings an agent gets his bling.
2004: 10.80 ERA, 4K/6BB in 8 1/3 IP, 6 games pitched, 1 start
2005: 6.20 ERA, 31K/32BB in 45 IP, 13 games pitched, 7 starts
2006: 11.17 ERA, 30K/34BB in 44 1/3 IP, 18 games pitched, 10 starts
Newberry finished 9-45-1 in 2006.
You would think that a college with a record like that wouldn't attract much interest from scouts.
Anthony Dillenger put up a 263/360/391 line with 47 hits (13 doubles, 2 triples, 2 homers), 23 walks, 6 HBP. He's probably aa bigger prospect than Locke. Even if Dillenger is a Junior.
Evidently though Locke grew over half a foot in 4 years and gained 15-20 mph. I guess the hope is hes still getting used to his new body and stuff.
And its not like hes getting much money to sign. Like 500 dollars...maybe 1,000
Cool, maybe I can sign a low-round draft choice and have him clean my apartment every week.
Cool, maybe I can sign a low-round draft choice and have him clean my apartment every week."
Actually 1,000 dollars will buy you a Royals 5th round pick for your apartment....really.
Josh Hamilton?
Toronto signed 33 guys.
No, thats just the level of talent the Blue Jays prefer to draft
Baltimore: 21/20/10/0
Boston: 26/19/9/0
New York: 27/14/9/0
Tampa Bay: 9/29/11/1
Toronto: 32/8/8/0
Chicago: 19/21/10/0
Cleveland: 31/14/8/0
Detroit: 28/12/10/0
Kansas City: 14/20/15/1
Minnesota: 14/30/7/0
Anaheim: 22/15/12/0
Oakland: 21/13/6/0
Seattle: 27/12/11/0
Texas: 20/15/14/0
Atlanta: 6/23/24/0
Florida: 23/15/14/0
New York: 25/15/8/0
Philadelphia: 26/20/5/0
Washington: 18/23/10/0
Chicago: 19/16/12/0
Cincinnati: 23/18/9/0
Houston: 25/19/6/0
Milwaukee: 18/23/9/0
Pittsburgh: 23/18/9/0
St. Louis: 36/14/2/1
Arizona: 31/10/9/2
Colorado: 20/19/11/0
Los Angeles: 15/29/6/0
San Diego: 25/17/5/0
San Francisco: 32/12/5/1
All in all.. not a great year for high school kids, unless you were picked by the Braves.
Matt Antonelli signs as well.
More signings (Mets, Indians, Padres, Nationals) are here. A's and Rox are here. [God bless the agate pages.]
It looks like the Braves drafted more JuCo kids than HS kids. The Dodgers drafted more HS kids than any other org.
True, but would you rather play for the Braves, or the Dodgers?
Even when the DRays tie for first in something, they still lose.
That was the age that was given, but several Cuban Web sites
this and this list his birth date as Sept. 2, 1974.
And, in fact, if you check the Palm Beach roster at milb.com, you'll see that this is the birth date that is listed.
So is Marti the oldest player to ever get drafted?
Note: It says Stegall is from Arizona, but all other stories have him from Arkansas.
Here's the Lowell Spinners take on who the Red Sox have inked.
http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/spring/2006/06/first-batch-of-signees.asp
KC signs Marc Maddox (9th) and Daniel Best (14th)
The A's sign Toddric Johnson (14th round)
The Pirates sign Scott Massey (24th round)
All out of the University of Southern Mississippi.
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The story with the Yankees - and other teams - is not that they wait to sign players, but that they don't always release the news that a player has signed, so unless you have an internal source for a signing, you won't know that the player has signed. I have no doubt that there are other signings (especially in the lower rounds) that haven't been reported yet, and I may not find out about them until the short-season and rookie-ball rosters are released this weekend.
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The Royals have 14 of their 50 draft picks under contract after signing five more.
The latest: No. 12 LHP Everett Teaford, 22, Georgia Southern; No. 15 OF Nicholas Francis, 20, Pensacola (Fla.) Community College; No. 16 SS Tyrone Wilson, 18, Southern Durham (N.C.) High School; No. 17 C Matthew Morizio, 22, Northeastern; and No. 22 RHP Romas Hicks, 22, Georgia State.
The Royals have signed eight players from the draft. They are: seventh round, Brett Bigler, outfielder; ninth, Marc Maddox, second base; 10th, Nicholas Van Stratten, center fielder; 14th, Daniel Best, right-handed pitcher; 21st, Burke Baldwin, left-handed pitcher; 23rd, Aaron Hartsock, right-handed pitcher; 31st, Brandon Lance, catcher; and 50th, Jarrod Dyson, outfielder.
The sixth-round pick, right-handed pitcher Harold Mozingo, has agreed to terms.
Brett Bigler (UC Riverside)
Marc Maddox (Southern Miss)
Nicholas Van Stratten (Meramec CC)
Daniel Best (Southern Miss)
Burke Baldwin (Elgin CC)
Aaron Hartsock (California Baptist)
Brandon Lance (New Mexico State)
Jarrod Dyson (Southwest Mississippi JC)
Unsigned college picks
College Juniors: Godin, Chambliss, Pearson
College Seniors: Cribb
It should be noted that Cribb's only stopped from signing due to the College World Series.
Unsigned JC picks: Kurt Mertins (JC of the Desert), Tyler Moyneur (Arizona Western JC), Michael Wheeler (Walters State CC), Steve Rinaudo (American River College), Jared Grace (Pensacola JC), Manuel Garcia (Cochise JC), Mike Dabbs (Cowley County Community College), Brennan Thorpe (Saddleback CC), Bryan Paukovitz and Eric Martinez (Southwestern CC/JC), and Ryan Cisterna (Chandler-Gilbert CC)
No word on which picks are just stubborn and which are "Draft and Follows"
Random stats time!
Jared Grace: 32 for 134 (.239), 9 doubles, 6 home runs. No word on how many walks he draws, but he has 41 runs, so presumably he draws walks. Grace is listed as a 6'5"/215lb outfielder, but he was drafted as a first baseman.
Brennan Thorpe is a 6'7/220lb pitcher who "won the challenge hitting contest at Saddleback the past two years" (according to the Saddleback site). I'm not particularly sure if that's an accomplishment for Thorpe, or an indictment of Saddleback hitting.
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Granted, the Texas League is only around 8 teams anyways.
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DBacks have signed: Ambriz (5), Christiansen(8), Perales(22), Byrne(25)
source: http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060615&content_id=1507479&vkey=news_ari&fext;=.jsp&c_id=ari
DBacks also inked: Beck(14), Miller(18) & Zavada(30)
source: http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060610&content_id=1499404&vkey=news_ari&fext;=.jsp&c_id=ari
Dbacks again signed: Barnette(10), Sharpe(16) & Walker (23)
source: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060615&content_id=1507635&vkey=news_mlb&fext;=.jsp&c_id=mlb
Seconded. The more sources of info we have (and people with the time to post!), the better.
To post links, use the Link button above the comment block. It allows you to do this:
Astros sign 1st rounder Max Sapp, 16 others.
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San Diego signed supplemental 1st rounder, OF Kyler Burke from Ooltewah (Tenn.) HS. He also was a pitching prospect, but projects as a corner outfielder. Raw and didn't face particularly good competition in high school, might have been a bit of an overdraft.
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It does now. Cincinnati signed a few more players as well, according to the Enquirer.
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Should be out this weekend, along with the rest of the short-season leagues.
Marlins sign Sinkbeil.
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Kyle and Brandon have both linked to a good site for NDFA news (though that's not their main focus): cstv.com. It also has an app for tracking NCAA tourney (and regular season) games.
I'm glad to help chip-in in any way i can.
speaking of NDFA's Der Komminsk-sar, is there any listing of those to be found?!?
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Systematic list? I'm not aware of one. The main places I look are cstv.com, all-purpose transactions listings (like the USA Today link in #51), team sites (either minor league teams or the mlb.com team notes pages), and org-wide fan sites (like soxprospects.com and brewerfan.net). Baseball America, of course, has their transactions pages, which are updated every two weeks or so, and a list of 5th year seniors that signed before the draft. You might also find some info on OurSports Central, which I know Mike uses as a transactions resource.
3B Chris Coughlan (#1b)
P Scott Cousins (#3) - who was listed as an OF during the draft
C David Hatcher (#5)
P Donald Czyz (#7)
OF John Raynor (#9)
P Graham Taylor (#10)
P Bradley Stone (#12)
INF Drew Saylor (#13) - who the article lists as a pitcher
P Jay Buente (#14)
INF Jacob Blackwood (#16) - also listed as a pitcher in the article
OF David Mense (#17)
P Ross Lierseman (#18)
P Thomas Davis (#19)
OF Brandon McDougall (#39)
Oddly enough, Guillermo Martinez #15), a shortstop who BA reports has signed with Florida and who was expected to report to Jamestown, isn't in the article. I don't know what to make of this.
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Hopefully the Boras clients are out of the way soon so we can focus on the HS signs
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by-the-by i hope cousins is staying in the field not as a pitcher; i have him on my draft!
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