2022 MLB Draft

Kenny Van Doren profile on 6th round pick Collin Price who was expected to sign today after his physical today in WPB…

Third draft pick signing (at least according to the MLB Pipeline folks)…

Astros announce the official signing of 8 guys. Not on the list is Dezenzo and Taylor so obviously they haven’t completed their physicals yet.

$134,100 underslot. This one at least I got right.

So BA has bonus amounts now for some signees in their database (behind paywall):

Michael Knorr $487,500 ($107,100 underslot)
Collin Price $122,500 ($135,000 underslot)
AJ Blubaugh $172,500 ($30,400 underslot)
Tyler Guilfoil $122,500 ($47,800 underslot)
Zach Cole $97,500 ($52,100 underslot)

BA reports that Trey Dombroski signed for $441,400, a slight discrepancy from the $443,900 amount reported by the MLB Pipeline guys.

Just out of curiosity, if a HS player is not drafted can that kid sign with an MLB team as a FAgent like some of the undrafted college kids have done?

Yep

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Chandler Rome reports Gilbert, Melton, and Gillis have signed. That locks down all picks in the top 10 rounds. Bonuses not known yet but their pool to sign Clifford is set one way or the other.

Big swing and miss on the Melton prediction too.

Pending the reporting on Gillis I believe they’re currently underslot by $732,300.

(or $734,800 if the BA number on Dombroski is correct).

If you include the 5% overage and assuming no overslot signings elsewhere, as of right now the Astros have about $1.2MM to spend on Clifford. Finding out the underslot amount on Gillis will add to that.

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My prediction ain’t exactly shining brightly either.

So total underslot is $792,000 (or $794,500 if using the BA number for Dombroski).

Adding in the 5% overage (and assuming no overslot signings elsewhere), the Astros have $1,259,030 to spend on Clifford.

Interested to see if the Astros need all of that to sign Clifford, or if they have enough to sign both him and Jackson.

I sincerely doubt they do, but considering how wrong I was about what they would need to sign Melton…

Jim Stevenson profiles his 5 signees…

Additional bonuses reported by BA…

Tommy Sacco $125,000
Joey Mancini $125,000
Tim Borden $50,000
Garrett McGowan $20,000
Ryan Wrobleski $30,000

So of the expected signings the only two unknown bonus amounts at this point are Clifford and John Garcia.

Also one other slight discrepancy on reported bonuses between MLB Pipeline and BA. The latter has Gilbert signing for $2,497,500 which would put the underslot amount at $797,000 if relying on their numbers.

How much do we want to read into Clifford’s new twitter bio?

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Pretty close…

https://twitter.com/jimcallisMLB/status/1552754763749523456

With 20 of 21 draft picks signed (final) + 2 NDFAs…

3 CF
1 Corner OF/1B
3 C
1 1B
4 SS
9 RHP
1 LHP

21 4-yr
0 juco
1 HSers

Of the 12 position players, 5 are lefty hitters and 1 is a switch-hitter.