OsFanInOhio Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 1 hour ago, Rbiggs2525 said: College juniors normally have savings. If you look at last year some players like Jacob Gonzalez and Kyle Teel were taken slot and saved 500-700k. The negotiations are done before the draft even starts. I believe that could have factored into EBJ falling last year. Brock Wilken saved the Brewers 800K as a Junior. Not sure I follow your “normally have savings” comment. The most players drafted across the entire draft are college juniors. By your logic, more than half of players drafted “normally” sign for less than slot. I don’t think that is accurate. Yes, in the first round wilken and Gonzalez and teel had savings, along with others, but that’s part of the under slot strategy. Tons of other college juniors didn’t take under slot (Langford, dolander, schanuel despite being over drafted, Shaw, Taylor…). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tony-OH Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 9 minutes ago, Sports Guy said: Layton, "It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid to play professional baseball," he said in a statement. "My family and I thought the opportunity was more than amazing and something we thought I couldn't pass on. The blessing that I have been given to have the type of talent to not only have the opportunity to play college baseball, but to also become a part of the very small population of athletes to say they play a professional sport, makes it all the more reason to take advantage of the opportunity that I have in front of me. I am well aware of the future struggles that will come with playing baseball at the professional level and, to say the least, I am excited and ALL IN for those future struggles!" Sounds like he has basically signed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Guy Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 2 minutes ago, Tony-OH said: Layton, "It's been a dream of mine since I was a kid to play professional baseball," he said in a statement. "My family and I thought the opportunity was more than amazing and something we thought I couldn't pass on. The blessing that I have been given to have the type of talent to not only have the opportunity to play college baseball, but to also become a part of the very small population of athletes to say they play a professional sport, makes it all the more reason to take advantage of the opportunity that I have in front of me. I am well aware of the future struggles that will come with playing baseball at the professional level and, to say the least, I am excited and ALL IN for those future struggles!" Sounds like he has basically signed. Yea, it’s either done and we don’t have the details or it’s been verbally agreed on and he is signing the contract any day now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony-OH Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 30 minutes ago, Sports Guy said: Yea, it’s either done and we don’t have the details or it’s been verbally agreed on and he is signing the contract any day now. They typically try to keep some of these signing bonuses quiet as they try and sign the other players. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Guy Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 3 minutes ago, Tony-OH said: They typically try to keep some of these signing bonuses quiet as they try and sign the other players. And we aren’t seeing many guys sign yet, so this seems plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OriolesUpAndDowns Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Pretty cool he has been to Camden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim'sKid26 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Very happy for this young man and his family. Congrats to D.J. here's to you wearing Orioles' colors in the near future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seak05 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 Callis has the signing bonus at 720k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can_of_corn Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 Late third round money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsFanInOhio Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 49 minutes ago, seak05 said: Callis has the signing bonus at 720k Quite a bit higher than the previous tweet suggested. Hopefully still enough left to chase Tess and George Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number5 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 15 minutes ago, OsFanInOhio said: Quite a bit higher than the previous tweet suggested. Hopefully still enough left to chase Tess and George Looks like the previous tweet was mixed up and listed the amount over slot, rather than the bonus amount. 720-318.3=401.7. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsFanInOhio Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 26 minutes ago, Number5 said: Looks like the previous tweet was mixed up and listed the amount over slot, rather than the bonus amount. 720-318.3=401.7. Gotcha. That leaves closer to 600k or so to go sign the remaining 3 hs/cc guys unless we get more savings from Vance (which is definitely possible, but who knows). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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