2014 Blue Jays Draft | Signings, Bonuses and Rumors Thread

[Frenchsoup]

Yeah the jays probably didn't leak anything about his shoulder so his draft stock isn't ruined when he comes out in a couple years, pretty classy actually.

[S33n]

Does anybody have Klaws insider article on the AL draft? http://klaw.me/1ihRLX7

[TwistedLogic]

 

 

Here are the names of the 24 players that have officially signed:

 

Foley, Wells, Morgan, Thomas, Shafer, Metzler, Romano, Mallard, McBroom, D. Isaacs, Brantley, Attaway, Fisk, Wheatley, Carlson, Garcia, Pepe, Autrey, Wellbrock, Hinkle, Aquino, Kraft, Lynch, Miller

 

Source: http://www.baseballamerica.com/draftdb/index.php

*Filter by Team: Toronto Blue Jays; Signed: Yes

[Angrioter]

Dee/Nick Gordon https://sqor.com/posts/69dc7696-70a8-4a6e-9f21-5ab2821de8a3

[billjc33]

Haven't heard a single word on either of the top 2 picks. I wonder if the blue jays low balled both of them and now they are in a stale mate where really neither side has any power. Player doesn't want to loose value being a senior and jays can't not sign another 1st rounder.

[John_Havok]

Haven't heard a single word on either of the top 2 picks. I wonder if the blue jays low balled both of them and now they are in a stale mate where really neither side has any power. Player doesn't want to loose value being a senior and jays can't not sign another 1st rounder.

 

Naw. They just don't want to announce anything because that would give Houck and Latz insight as to how much under slot the top 2 guys signed for, which would allow their agents to better calculate how much more they should be asking for.

 

Hoffman is a gauranteed sign. Pentecost will too.

[GD]

I'll be floored if we don't sign them.

 

Hopefully Latz signs. Like him.

[Orgfiller]

I'll be floored if we don't sign them.

 

Hopefully Latz signs. Like him.

 

I see that it says Pentecost is signing in the OP, can someone refer me to the page/link where this was discovered?

[43211234]

Haven't heard a single word on either of the top 2 picks. I wonder if the blue jays low balled both of them and now they are in a stale mate where really neither side has any power. Player doesn't want to loose value being a senior and jays can't not sign another 1st rounder.

 

There's a 99% chance they sign Hoffman and Pentecost. Quit worrying yourself.

[TwistedLogic]

I see that it says Pentecost is signing in the OP, can someone refer me to the page/link where this was discovered?

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Blue Jays draft pick Max Pentecost ‘can’t wait to get up there and go play’

The Jays have failed to sign their first-round pick in two of the past three years, but they have nothing to worry about with the talented catcher from Kennesaw State University.

By: Brendan Kennedy Sports reporter, Published on Sun Jun 08 2014

 

Max Pentecost has never been to Canada, but the 21-year-old Georgia native — and first-round draft pick of the Blue Jays — has heard it on radio and seen it on TV. “I've been to Massachusetts and Maine, that kind of area, and I've heard the radio stations talking in French,” Pentecost said this weekend on a conference call with reporters. “Besides that, I really don’t know much about it. I'm a huge outdoorsman, so I've always watched hunting videos, and I know Canada’s got good hunting and fishing, and that it’s a beautiful country. So I don’t think I’ll have one problem with it.”

 

The Jays, who had two first-round picks this year after failing to sign their first-rounder last year, took Pentecost — considered by some to be the best “true” catcher in the draft — with the 11th overall pick. Toronto also had the ninth overall pick and with it they took East Carolina right-hander Jeff Hoffman, who was once in the mix to go first overall until he blew out his elbow in April and underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery.

 

With Major League Baseball’s amateur draft wrapping up on Sunday, the Jays were already being hailed by some experts as the early winners. Jim Callis, who has covered the draft for 25 years and writes for MLBPipeline.com, ranked the Jays’ draft as the best, not only for the Pentecost and Hoffman picks, but for how they “stole” Florida high-school right-hander Sean Reid-Foley in the second round. Callis ranked Reid-Foley as the 18th-best player in the draft — while Hoffman was ranked 13th and Pentecost 19th — making the Jays the only club to draft three players from the top 20. Callis also praised Toronto’s third- and fourth-round picks, including high-school catcher Matt Morgan, who, the Jays announced Sunday, has already signed with the team.

 

Pentecost, who grew up idolizing Jason Kendall and now tries to model his game after Buster Posey, is regarded as a highly athletic backstop who hits for a high average and has good speed for a catcher. His stock began to rise last summer when he was named the MVP of the Cape Cod League. “I think that was the whole reason I am where I am today,” he said.

 

He was first drafted out of high school three years ago by the Texas Rangers in the seventh round, but elected instead to go to Kennesaw State University, the alma mater of Jays right-hander Chad Jenkins.

The Jays have failed to sign their first-round pick in two of the last three years, but Pentecost said he’s eager to get the paperwork out of the way. “I can’t wait to get up there and go play,” he said.

Toronto selected 41 players in all, and once again they loaded up on pitching, selecting 16 right-handers and six left-handers. Among position players, they drafted seven outfielders, five catchers, three second basemen, two shortstops and two first basemen. Twenty-seven of the players the Jays selected were college juniors or seniors, with 14 of their picks coming out of high school.

 

The Jays drafted two Canadians — both right-handed pitchers from the Greater Toronto Area. Jordan Romano, a Markham native, was selected in the 10th round from Oral Roberts University, while Zachary Pop, a 17-year-old righty from Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Brampton, was selected in the 23rd round, 684th overall. Both Romano and Pop pitched for the Ontario Blue Jays summer team. The Jays have until July 15 to sign their remaining draftees.

 

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Should come as no surprise, but it looks like Pentecost is signing.

 

[billjc33]

Naw. They just don't want to announce anything because that would give Houck and Latz insight as to how much under slot the top 2 guys signed for, which would allow their agents to better calculate how much more they should be asking for.

 

Hoffman is a gauranteed sign. Pentecost will too.

 

Does it even matter? Any money saved is going to the top after round 10 talent

[TwistedLogic]

Gunnar Heidt -

 

http://www.carolinalive.com/sports/story.aspx?id=1057331#.U5pYzvldWSq

 

Yeah, Heidt was one of the first guys I put down as signing.

[John_Havok]

Does it even matter? Any money saved is going to the top after round 10 talent

 

Exactly, but you can't let the kids agents know the exact dollars you're playing with.

[ace3113]

AL East draft recap by BA:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLx_CozK6s

[TwistedLogic]

AL East draft recap by BA:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLx_CozK6s

 

I saw this earlier today but I didn't post it because the guy is so awkward, and it's hard to pay attention to what he's saying when his monotone voice and constant gasping for breath make it really obvious that he's just reading off of a paper. They should have just posted whatever he was reading in written form to make it a hundred times easier on the listener and make it more accessible to share.

[Angrioter]

2,9M to Trea?

[Angrioter]

[Angrioter]

[GD]

Kevin Garcia tweets out he's headed to Vancouver

 

One of Klein, Conner or De La Cruz will get the cut

 

Conner is easily the worst

[Angrioter]

[z3r0s]

ok, I'm dumb anyone who saw that last post... please ignore.

[Angrioter]

 

Sign these guys. f*** LSU.

 

[Atothe]

 

Sign these guys. f*** LSU.

 

Throw mansions at him, make him a jay

[GD]

I really want Latz signed.

[ElNik2013]

Was that a legit Latz tweet earlier? If so, they may be close on a deal. Wait and see I guess.

[ElNik2013]

What tweet are you talking about

 

 

Good thing you asked, I double-checked and it was Dan Lietz....#BrainFart!

[Angrioter]

Throw mansions at him, make him a jay

He's twin. He just could be here if the jays bring his twin brother Papierski.

[Angrioter]

What tweet are you talking about

 

[Angrioter]

[GD]

noooooooooooooooo