2022 MLB Draft

The Bus Ride
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Draft begins at 6 pm tonight and will be televised on ESPN and the MLB Network…

Schedule:

  • Sunday, July 17 (day 1): rounds 1-2 including compensation picks
  • Monday, July 18 (day 2): rounds 3-10
  • Tuesday, July 19 (day 3): rounds 11-20

Deadline for signing picks:

  • August 1 (all but draft and follows)
  • July 9, 2023 (draft and follows)

Astros picks in first 5 rounds:

  • #28
  • #64
  • #80 (compensation for loss of Correa)
  • #103
  • #133
  • #163

How much can the Astros spend:

  • Total bonus pool: $6,837,000 (25th highest)
  • Slot value of 1st round pick: $2,620,400
  • Slot value of 2nd round pick: $1,103,600
  • Slot value of compensation pick: $806,800
  • Slot value of 3rd round pick: $594,300
  • Slot value of 4th round pick: $443,700
  • Slot value of 5th round pick: $331,400
  • Slot value of 6th round pick: $257,300
  • Slot value of 7th round pick: $202,700
  • Slot value of 8th round pick: $170,200
  • Slot value of 9th round pick: $157,100
  • Slot value of 10th round pick: $149,500
  • Rounds 11-20 (except draft & follows): $150,000 each (excess counts towards bonus pool)
  • Rounds 11-20 (draft & follows): $225,000 each (excess counts towards bonus pool)
  • NDFAs: no more than $20,000 each
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Updated to reflect a just-reported change to how much you can spend on undrafted guys. Go crazy Mr. Click (and Mr. Crane)…

Schedule:

  • Sunday, July 17 (day 1): rounds 1-2 including compensation picks
  • Monday, July 18 (day 2): rounds 3-10
  • Tuesday, July 19 (day 3): rounds 11-20

Deadline for signing picks:

  • August 1 (all but draft and follows)
  • July 9, 2023 (draft and follows)

Astros picks in first 5 rounds:

  • #28
  • #64
  • #80 (compensation for loss of Correa)
  • #103
  • #133
  • #163

How much can the Astros spend:

  • Total bonus pool: $6,837,000 (25th highest)
  • Slot value of 1st round pick: $2,620,400
  • Slot value of 2nd round pick: $1,103,600
  • Slot value of compensation pick: $806,800
  • Slot value of 3rd round pick: $594,300
  • Slot value of 4th round pick: $443,700
  • Slot value of 5th round pick: $331,400
  • Slot value of 6th round pick: $257,300
  • Slot value of 7th round pick: $202,700
  • Slot value of 8th round pick: $170,200
  • Slot value of 9th round pick: $157,100
  • Slot value of 10th round pick: $149,500
  • Rounds 11-20 (except draft & follows): $150,000 each (excess counts towards bonus pool)
  • Rounds 11-20 (draft & follows): $225,000 each (excess counts towards bonus pool)
  • NDFAs: $125,0000 (excess counts towards bonus pool)
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Updating for final mocks out today from BA and MLB Pipeline…

Baseball America
Version 1.0: RHP Peyton Pallete, Arkansas (underwent TJS in Jan.)
Version 2.0: LHP Connor Prielipp, Alabama (underwent TJS in May '21)
Version 3.0: RHP Justin Campbell, Okla St (6’7" & drafted by Astros in 18th round back in '19)
Version 4.0: RHP Landon Sims, Miss St (TJS in March)
Version 5.0: RHP Blade Tidwell, Tennessee (missed 6 weeks early in spring w/shoulder soreness)
Version 6.0: LHP Cooper Hjerpe, Oregon St (led D1 with 161 Ks this spring)
Version 6.1: OF Sterlin Thompson, Florida

MLB Pipeline
Version 1.0 OF Jud Fabian, Florida (elite CFer who draws walks, has pop but whiffs a lot)
Version 2.0 OF Jud Fabian
Version 3.0 OF Brock Jones, Stanford (also played football as freshman but now focusing on baseball)
Version 4.0 3B Max Wagner, Clemson (.369/.496/.852 w/16 HRs in last 22 regular season games)
Version 5.0 OF Jacob Melton, Oregon St. (.364/.427/.669 and can play CF)
Version 6.0 OF Sterlin Thompson, Florida
Version 7.0 OF Sterlin Thompson
Version 8.0 RHP Cade Horton, OU (rising up draft boards due to his outstanding work in postseason)
Version 9.0 OF Drew Gilbert, Tennessee (CFer who whacked at a .362/.455/.673 clip this spring)
Version 10.0 OF Sterlin Thompson
Final OF Sterlin Thompson (Mayo) or OF Jordan Beck (Callis)

The Athletic/Keith Law
Version 1.0 OF Jud Fabian
Version 2.0 OF Chase Delauter, James Madison
Version 3.0 LHP Connor Prielipp
Version 4.0 LHP Carson Whisenhunt, ECU (missed spring after being suspended for banned substance)

ESPN/Kiley McDaniel
Version 1.0 RHP Blade Tidwell, Tennessee
Version 2.0 C Dalton Rushing, Louisville (.314/.401/.514 in the Cape last summer)
Version 3.0 OF Brock Jones

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The Athletic did a staff draft back on July 7 with the Astros selecting Blake Tidwell. For whatever that’s worth.

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The bonus pools and slot values were revised ever so slightly in the past few days so adjusting this accordingly. Also that increase in the threshold for rounds 11-20 to $150K does not actually apply until 2023 so I’ve also adjusted for that…

Schedule:

  • Sunday, July 17 (day 1): rounds 1-2 including compensation picks
  • Monday, July 18 (day 2): rounds 3-10
  • Tuesday, July 19 (day 3): rounds 11-20

Deadline for signing picks:

  • August 1 (all but draft and follows)
  • July 9, 2023 (draft and follows)

Astros picks in first 5 rounds:

  • #28
  • #64
  • #80 (compensation for loss of Correa)
  • #103
  • #133
  • #163

How much can the Astros spend:

  • Total bonus pool: $6,840,600 (25th highest)
  • Slot value of 1st round pick: $2,621,700
  • Slot value of 2nd round pick: $1,104,100
  • Slot value of compensation pick: $807,200
  • Slot value of 3rd round pick: $594,600
  • Slot value of 4th round pick: $443,900
  • Slot value of 5th round pick: $331,600
  • Slot value of 6th round pick: $257,500
  • Slot value of 7th round pick: $202,900
  • Slot value of 8th round pick: $170,300
  • Slot value of 9th round pick: $157,200
  • Slot value of 10th round pick: $149,600
  • Rounds 11-20 (except draft & follows): $125,000 each (excess counts towards bonus pool)
  • Rounds 11-20 (draft & follows): $225,000 each (excess counts towards bonus pool)
  • NDFAs: $125,0000 (excess counts towards bonus pool)
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Updating for Kiley McDaniel’s final mock as well as FG’s Longenhagen one and only mock…

Baseball America
Version 1.0: RHP Peyton Pallete, Arkansas (underwent TJS in Jan.)
Version 2.0: LHP Connor Prielipp, Alabama (underwent TJS in May '21)
Version 3.0: RHP Justin Campbell, Okla St (6’7" & drafted by Astros in 18th round back in '19)
Version 4.0: RHP Landon Sims, Miss St (TJS in March)
Version 5.0: RHP Blade Tidwell, Tennessee (missed 6 weeks early in spring w/shoulder soreness)
Version 6.0: LHP Cooper Hjerpe, Oregon St (led D1 with 161 Ks this spring)
Version 6.1: OF Sterlin Thompson, Florida

MLB Pipeline
Version 1.0 OF Jud Fabian, Florida (elite CFer who draws walks, has pop but whiffs a lot)
Version 2.0 OF Jud Fabian
Version 3.0 OF Brock Jones, Stanford (also played football as freshman but now focusing on baseball)
Version 4.0 3B Max Wagner, Clemson (.369/.496/.852 w/16 HRs in last 22 regular season games)
Version 5.0 OF Jacob Melton, Oregon St. (.364/.427/.669 and can play CF)
Version 6.0 OF Sterlin Thompson, Florida
Version 7.0 OF Sterlin Thompson
Version 8.0 RHP Cade Horton, OU (rising up draft boards due to his outstanding work in postseason)
Version 9.0 OF Drew Gilbert, Tennessee (CFer who whacked at a .362/.455/.673 clip this spring)
Version 10.0 OF Sterlin Thompson
Final OF Sterlin Thompson (Mayo) or OF Jordan Beck (Callis)

The Athletic/Keith Law
Version 1.0 OF Jud Fabian
Version 2.0 OF Chase Delauter, James Madison
Version 3.0 LHP Connor Prielipp
Version 4.0 LHP Carson Whisenhunt, ECU (missed spring after being suspended for banned substance)

ESPN/Kiley McDaniel
Version 1.0 RHP Blade Tidwell, Tennessee
Version 2.0 C Dalton Rushing, Louisville (.314/.401/.514 in the Cape last summer)
Version 3.0 OF Brock Jones
Version 3.1 OF Jacob Melton

Fangraphs/Eric Longenhagen
Version 1.0 2B/3B Tucker Toman, Hammond HS (Columbia, SC)

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I feel comfortable that the Astros might draft someone mentioned in this thread :wink:

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Matt Holliday’s kid is the #1 pick by the Orioles.

BA and Keith Law nailed that one.

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And Andruw Jones’ kid goes #2 to the D-Backs.

BA and Law again get that pick right.

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Woah, Kumar Rocker goes #3 to the Rangers.

Highest any of the mocks had him going was #13 by Longenhagen.

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Just to keep the theme let’s say that he’s John Rocker’s kid.

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Termarr Johnson at #4 to the Pirates.

Three of the top four picks are HSers.

Three of the top four picks are African American.

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Elijah Green at #5 to the Nats. Son of former NFLer Eric.

Four of the top five picks are HSers.

Four of the top five picks are African American.

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Ex U of Arizona & LSU star Jacob Berry at #6 to the Marlins.

First SEC selection (unless you want to argue that Rocker is).

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Late riser OU RHP Cade Horton at #7 to the Cubs.

First Big 12 selection.

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Some of the top-ranked Texas HSers. I doubt the Astros pick any of these guys but I am curious to see where they might go…

  • SS Jett Williams, Rockwall-Heath HS–18.7. 5’8” 175 lbs. May not stick at short. Miss. St commit
  • RHP Cole Phillips, Boerne HS–19.1. TJS in April ‘22. Up to 99. Arkansas commit
  • OF Jeric Curtis, Tomball Memorial HS–18.6. Burner w/80 speed. Plus CFer. Texas Tech commit
  • RHP Chase Shores, Midland Lee HS–18.2. 6’8” 221 lbs. Up to 96. LSU commit
  • SS Jalin Flores, SA Brandeis HS–18.9. Texas commit
  • SS Anthony Silva, Plano Clark HS –19.0. TCU commit
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Cal Poly SS Brooks Lee goes to the Twins at #8. Played for his dad there.

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Virginia Tech OF Gavin Cross to the Royals at #9.

First ACC selection.

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Gonzaga RHP Gabriel Hughes to the Rockies at #10.

Earliest any of the mocks had him was at #20 to the Braves.

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Georgia Tech C Kevin Parada to the Mets at #11.

2nd ACC selection.