2009 Draft & Signings Thread

[Keener98]

Supposedly for 2.9million. Was really hoping they wouldnt get him signed.

 

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

[Outshined_One]

Use this as the general signings thread, since the discussion was trending that way in any case.

[Guest]

What is with Aaron Crow? I hate it when players don't sign like this. Its one thing to have teams like the Yankees with unreal budgets, but another thing when teams smaller teams can't draft the best player available because of signability issues. We already limit what young player can do in terms of compensation with arbitration and free agency. They need to find a way to fix this end.

 

What happened with Crow?

[Guest]

The A's reportedly signed Max Stassi today. He got a $1.5M bonus, a record for a fourth-rounder.

[Guest]

The A's reportedly signed Max Stassi today. He got a $1.5M bonus, a record for a fourth-rounder.

 

I just saw that. :(

[Outshined_One]

Per BA:

 

The Rays have announced that they have broken off talks with first-round pick Levon Washington and also don't expect to sign second-rounder Kenny Diekroger.

 

Ouch.

[UK1679666180]

Per BA:

 

The Rays have announced that they have broken off talks with first-round pick Levon Washington and also don't expect to sign second-rounder Kenny Diekroger.

 

Ouch.

 

It'll be interesting to see how it plays out for next year as far as having 4 picks in the top 2 rounds. They had several overslot guys espec. with Halm and James.

[Outshined_One]

Tigers signed Turner; it's reportedly a major league deal (!!) ($5.5m plus incentives)

 

Athletics signed Krol and Green (2.75m)

 

Padres officially signed Tate, although reportedly he has been signed for the past week or so. They also announced the signing of Keyvius Sampson.

 

Orioles signed Mychal Givens ($800,000)

 

Twins signed Gibson (1.85m)

 

Giants signed Wheeler (3.3m)

 

Rockies signed Matzek (3.9m)

 

Mariners signed Ackley ($9.5m major league deal)

 

Indians signed Alex White (2.25m)

[Outshined_One]

Purke did not sign with the Rangers and will be going to TCU.

[Guest]

FYI, Jake Locker signed a 2-sport deal with the Angels for a $200,000 bonus. I was pretty stunned when they popped him in the 10th round but it looks like they did their homework after all.

[Outshined_One]

Team-by-team spending breakdown.

 

Cubs spent the 4th least in the majors in the first 10 rounds of the draft.

[Guest]

2010 Comp Picks from BA:

 

FIRST ROUND

 

13. Royals (for Aaron Crow/still eligible to sign)

 

15. Rangers (for Matt Purke)

 

31. Rays (for LeVon Washington)

 

SUPPLEMENTAL FIRST ROUND

 

38. Blue Jays (for James Paxton)

 

45. Rangers (for Tanner Scheppers/still eligible to sign)

 

SECOND ROUND

 

69. Blue Jays (for Jake Eliopoulos)

 

79. Rays (for Kenny Diekroeger)

 

SUPPLEMENTAL FIRST ROUND

 

tba. Blue Jays (for Jake Barrett)

 

tba. White Sox (for Bryan Morgado)

 

tba. Angels (for Josh Spence)

[Outshined_One]

Looks like the Royals are going to sign Crow in the near future. Link

 

The Kansas City Royals are on the verge of an agreement with their No. 1 draft pick, pitcher Aaron Crow, for a major league deal that will pay him between $3 million and $4.5 million, sources said.

[Outshined_One]

Aaron Crow and Tanner Scheppers have both signed.

[shnsajax]

Aaron Crow and Tanner Scheppers have both signed.

 

Good for him. No reason to waste two years playing for the Ft. Worth Cats.

[Guest]

I hate to be the jackass bumping super old threads, but I was kind of curious as to what was being said about Trout back when he was drafted so I looked through this thread a little bit.

 

why is jackson not wanted?

 

*Whiff*

 

*Whiff*

 

*Whiff*

 

why is jackson not wanted?

 

strikes out too much.

 

These people (along with a bunch of other people pleading for him to be taken before we came up) were pretty dead on.

 

Trout:

boy this kid is an exciting interview

 

On rain days, I was like, man, I can't play today.

 

Haha. Here's this interview.

 

Harold: "What are people gonna remember from this draft? Strasburg and Trout"

 

Well, I'll be [expletive] damned if Harold Reynolds wasn't extremely right about something.

[TruffleShuffle]

lol mike trout lol

[Sammy Sofa]

Everyone here is regularly wrong about these kind of things, but man, when Meph was wrong he tended to be SPECTACULARLY wrong. It's oddly impressive.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Everyone here is regularly wrong about these kind of things, but man, when Meph was wrong he tended to be SPECTACULARLY wrong. It's oddly impressive.

 

You mean Khalil Greene is not a HOFer yet?

[Guest]

shut up, khalil slugged like .500 away from petco for a few years

[TruffleShuffle]

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[mul21]

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Houston+Astros+Photo+Day+sjnYpzJEmL6l.jpg

 

I was surprised he hadn't been mentioned yet.