CaliforniaRaisin

Yeah, I know. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati both killed it. Just one year, I want the Cubs to acquire comp picks.

MLB Pipeline ranked him 24th:

Prospects Live ranked Horton 12th overall:

Horton shouldn't be anywhere near slot, at least I'd hope. He's got another year of college eligibility left, so they don't have a lot of leverage. He was projected to go 10-20, so they should. They probably already know his number. This is from Kiley McDaniel (he’ll get more than the $3 million Kiley mentions since he went too 1):

I think most people are smarter to judge players on more than 2 good weeks or 3 good starts. Well, maybe other than the people running the Cubs. He was a top 75 prospect coming out of HS, despite being a 2-sport star who didn’t focus on baseball. Had a huge fall camp his freshman year and then needed TJS. He didn’t come out of nowhere. He was ranked as high as 12 by both Eric Longenhagen (FG) and Joe Doyle (Prospects Live).

Always a good reminder that this board hated the Horner and Brennen Davis picks, as did a lot of Cubs Twitter. what about Little, Jensen, Howard.. Little and Howard were picked around where the publications’ ranked them so they were pretty well-liked. If you’re trying to slam me or something for “defending” the org, I don’t have much of an opinion on the pick and know better to judge draft picks based on blurbs and videos.

Horton was ranked 23rd by BA:

Horton was ranked 22nd by ESPN, also a 45+ FV:

Cade Horton was ranked 12th by Fangraphs with a 45+ FV:

Always a good reminder that this board hated the Horner and Brennen Davis picks, as did a lot of Cubs Twitter.

Wow. Assuming they’ll try to buy Schultz or Ford in the second round with the savings.

They’re gonna win the College World Series!

They’re gonna win the College World Series!

Longenhagen says the Pirates will take Termarr

Kumar Rocker to the Rangers at 1.3.

Kumar Rocker to the Rangers at 1.3.

Agreed. Think it’ll be Collier or Neto for the Pirates.

Every year, we put up a new thread for draft day. Post everything in here and I’ll lock the other thread. I will update this OP with the Cubs’ actual picks and signing as they are made. The schedule: Tonight, 6 pm CT: Rounds 1-2 starting at 6 pm on MLB Network Monday, 1 pm CT: Rounds 3-10 on MLB.com Tuesday, 1 pm CT: Rounds 11-20 on MLB.com This year, there'll be 20 rounds. The Cubs bonus pool for the draft is $10,098,100 ($10,603,005 with 5% overage). 1.7 $5,711,000 slot - RHP Cade Horton, Oklahoma; rankings - BA: 23, ESPN: 22, FG: 12, MLB: 24, Prospects Live: 12 - $4.45 million bonus 2.47 $1,661,200 - LHP Jackson Ferris, IMG Academy, FL (Ole Miss commit); BA: 34, ESPN: 41, FG: 43, MLB: 19, PL: 27 - $3,005,000 bonus 3.86 $735,500 - SS Christopher Paciolla, Temecula Valley HS, CA (UCLA commit); BA: 128, FG: 93, MLB: 166, PL: 91 - $900,000 bonus 4.113 $538,600 - RHP/SS Nazier Mulé, Passaic County Tech Institute, NJ (Miami commit); BS: 96, FG: 92, MLB: 94, PL: 214 - $1 million bonus 5.143 $402,400 - RHP Brandon Birdsell, Texas Tech; BA: 137, FG: 86, MLB: 101, PL: 160 - $385,000 bonus 6.173 $303,900 - RHP Will Frisch, Oregon St; BA: 200, PL: 426 - $228,000 bonus 7.203 $237,500 - RHP Nick Hull, Grand Canyon - $25,000 bonus 8.233 $189,100 - RHP Mason McGwire, Capistrano Valley HS, CA (Oklahoma commit) - $200,000 bonus 9.263 $164,690 - RHP Connor Noland, Arkansas; BA: 470, PL: 251 - $200,000 bonus 10.293 $154,300 - RHP Brody McCullough, Wingate (NC); BA: 482, PL: 286 - $125,000 bonus 11.323 LHP Branden Noriega - $125,000 bonus 12.353 RHP Matthew Peters, Indiana Institute of Tech - $125,000 bonus 13.383 RHP Luis Rujano, Sunshine State Elite Academy, FL; MLB: 234 (South Florida commit) - $210,000 bonus ($85k counts to pool) 14.413 RHP Shane Marshall, Georgia - $125,000 bonus 15.443 C Haydn McGeary, Colorado Mesa (Kentucky commit) - $125,000 bonus 16.473 RHP JP Wheat, Next Level Academy, AL (Georgia Tech commit) - $125,000 bonus 17.503 OF Andy Garriola, Old Dominion - $50,000 bonus 18.533 RHP Garrett Brown, Georgia - bonus: $80,000 bonus 19.563 RHP Brock Blatter, Billings Central Catholic HS, MT (Alabama commit); BA: 407, PL: 472 20.593 OF Ke’Shun Collier, Meridian CC (South Alabama commit) - $100,000 bonus Teams can spend up to $125,000 on picks in the 11th through 20th rounds and NDFAs without it counting towards their bonus allotment. Any portion of a bonus above $125,000 comes out of the team's bonus allotment. Final mocks: Athletic/Keith Law: Brooks Lee BA/Carlos Collazo: Cam Collier ESPN/Kiley McDaniel: Brooks Lee FG/Eric Longenhagen: Cam Collier MLB/Callis: Brooks Lee MLB/Mayo: Gavin Cross Prospects Live/Joe Doyle: Brooks Lee & Walter Ford (2nd round)

The first two innings were pretty good, at least.

After today, all full season teams are off until Friday. The ACL Cubs are off till Thursday.

Scheduled Game (All Times Central): Iowa vs Buffalo, 1:08 pm Tennessee vs Biloxi, 1:00 pm South Bend at Peoria, 1:35 pm Myrtle Beach vs Fayetteville, 5:35 pm All rookie league teams have the day off Probable Starters: Iowa: RHP Luke Farrell Tennessee: LHP Jordan Wicks South Bend: RHP Luis Devers Myrtle Beach: RHP Tyler Schlaffer

PCA Futures Game double