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Panas is from Toronto.
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You're not going to get "world breaking" with your first pick being 29th overall combined with one of the smallest draft pools.
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No, no he's not. He's a known College Junior ranked ~Top 200. Like I said, don't expect any significant "pick punting".
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150 on MLB 171 on Garrioch 283 on BA
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JC Sardenas looks like Justin Bieber.....
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HS players are unlikely to sign at this point in the raft unless you are taking guys way down the board.
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Tristan Pompey has a Kentucky commitment. He's not likely to sign for peanuts I'd assume.
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Cardenas is a draft eligible Sophomore. Hit .352 this year.
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A punt pick is by definition a guy who will sign for next to nothing. What you are describing is just an underslot selection. Yeah, we'll probably take some cheap College picks to round out today like we did last year. "Punting" would refer to 2012 where we drafted seven straight guys who signed for $5,000 or less.
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Zehner was not a punt pick. He just didn't sign. He was a Junior who appeared on Top 500 lists. He appears on Top 500 lists this year as well. I meant a full out "punt party". I know we took savings picks in the 9th and 10th rounds last year. Your initial post talked about us punting at Round 5, which is specifically what I was referring to. The only time we did that was the big 2012 draft. I never said we wouldn't take a pick or two under-slot in the ~8th-10th round range.
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Espada will sign for at least $100,000. I don't think you're getting "big discount" out of this pick. He's one of the top prospects from Puerto Rico, he's not signing for a bag of chips.
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Every team drafts HS guys who fall after the 10th round. All those guys you mentioned were drafted long before any of those players chose not to sign. They'll do the same this year because no one expects to sign 40 rounds worth of guys, but that doesn't mean we're going to be punting picks away.
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HS pitcher. Really punting those picks boys!
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Thats why they look into signability extensively. They've been on Singer and Maese forever. Maese will not be a hard sign, hence why he's already come out stating that he plans on signing. Singer appears a safe bet to sign as well otherwise he wouldn't have been drafted.
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They already know what the guys we've drafted will sign for. If its going to take an extra $500K, then sure, they'll account for that and save some money. The whole "punt all the picks" approach? Won't happen. You guys act like we do that every year when we've literally only done it once, and it was a special scenario (an absurd amount of high picks). By the way, you know how many big over-slot guys we signed after the 10th round last year? Zero. Like I said, its a pipe dream. When we landed Tellez and Brentz it was because we blew our first pick in Bickford.
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Those guys are pipe-dreams. They aren't going to throw away 4+ rounds of decent picks so that you can have a ~50% chance of landing one kid later on for over-slot. Don't expect any crazy pick punting.
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Harris will sign for slot. Singer will likely sign for around slot too. Maese is a pop-up guy who couldn't even dream of going 3rd round 6 months ago. he'll be an easy sign.
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What would they punt for? We don't have any high-bonus guys drafted. The "punting" thing was only a strategy when we had 7 Top 100 picks and wanted to sell out to get the best 7-9 guys we could. I think you'll see some sleeper College picks that will sign for real money and maybe another couple lightly-hyped HS kids who will sign. I don't expect any crazy "punting" where we're drafting $5,000 guys.
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f***.
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Maese was actually #33 on Keith Law's big board. Chris Crawford says there were rumors about us taking him at #29 (that would have been a way under-slot deal). Lots of buzz about interest in the supplemental first as well.
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Justin Maese after being drafted:
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Justin Maese. No surprise.
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Hooper ain't an option for us my man.
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Guardado was a big pop-up guy this spring. Him and Maese were the two big pop-ups.
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We're still in the 3rd round. This would still be "high" for a projection pick. He's dropped into this range on virtually every board.