2014 DRAFT PICK SIGNING and speculation thread

Danville paper confirms

No. 19 Codey McElroy, SS and 23. Tanner Kreitemeier, 1B

are signed, sealed and in Danville for the season opener, bringing total known signees to 23.
 
I think Codey McElroy may be one to watch. He was a starter at first base as a true freshman at Texas before transferring out for whatever reason.
 
Add No. 26 Trevor Sprowl to those signed. Former LSU player is assigned to Rome along with No. 31 Sal Giardina.
 
KB21 said:
I think Codey McElroy may be one to watch. He was a starter at first base as a true freshman at Texas before transferring out for whatever reason.
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I saw some video of him taking bp. Loved his swing. Just drops the head of the bat on the ball. Has the kind of graceful arc you see more often from a lefty swing. Big guy for a shortstop.
 
rico43 said:
No. 17 Perritt playing in Cape Cod League.
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rico, do you know how much of the pool is left if they want to go over late for a guy like Perritt? There's a $100,000 limit, but savings from the first 10 rounds and some percentage swing (can't remember how much) can be added to that. Do you have that number?

I'm guessing they are saving it up for one or two more difficult signing and Perritt is probably on that list.
 
50PoundHead said:
rico, do you know how much of the pool is left if they want to go over late for a guy like Perritt? There's a $100,000 limit, but savings from the first 10 rounds and some percentage swing (can't remember how much) can be added to that. Do you have that number?

I'm guessing they are saving it up for one or two more difficult signing and Perritt is probably on that list.
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Got nothing on cap limit. Sorry.
 
50PoundHead said:
rico, do you know how much of the pool is left if they want to go over late for a guy like Perritt? There's a $100,000 limit, but savings from the first 10 rounds and some percentage swing (can't remember how much) can be added to that. Do you have that number?

I'm guessing they are saving it up for one or two more difficult signing and Perritt is probably on that list.
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The BA data have us $80K below slot with 9 of the first 10 picks signed. The one top ten pick they don't have as being signed is Dykstra.

According to BA here is what each of the signed top 10 guys got (with the slot value in parens):

Davidson 1705K (1705K)
Fulencheck 1000K (860K)
Povse 425K (514K)
Sobotka 400K (381K)
Diaz 286K (286K)
Curcio 225K (214)
Roney 153K (153K)
Edgerton 115K (143K)
Tellor 5K (138K)
 
nsacpi said:
The BA data have us $80K above slot with 9 or the first 10 picks signed. The one top ten pick they don't have us signed is Dykstra. His pool limit is 244K. We could sign him for up to 472K without incurring loss of a draft pick. Or alternatively if we signed him at slot, we could sign remaining picks outside the top ten a total of 228K above the 100K limit for non-top 10 picks.
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I hope they can get Dykstra signed.
 
KB21 said:
I hope they can get Dykstra signed.
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I actually think he is. He changed his Twitter handle to Infielder in the Atlanta Braves system less than a week after the draft. If he hasn't signed, he and his dad have done a great job of talking out of both side of their a**.
 
Looks like our #12 pick, Pat Dorrian, has signed. On his twitter page, he now lists himself as 2nd baseman, Atlanta Braves organization. So far, we've drafted and signed 5 high school players--Davidson (1), Fulenchek (2), Dykstra (7), Gamez (11) and Dorrian (12). There are one or two others we might yet sign.

There has been a little bit of an uptick in the number of high school players we've drafted and signed in the last couple years. Here are some numbers

2013 6 high school players (Salazar, Murphy, Stiffler, Hagenmiller, Manwaring, Grosser)
2012 5 (Sims, de la Rosa, Black, Lien, Sanchez)
2011 3 (Moranda, Laumann, Livesay)
2010 3 (Lipka, Drury, Tate)
2009 2 (Northcraft, La Point)

If there was a strategy behind this pattern, it seems to have been to use the 2009-2011 drafts to rebuild organizational depth. Having accomplished this, we are now going for some more speculative but hopefully more upside high school picks.
 
Given the small sample involved, it is hard to draw conclusions about whether the yield on the HS players we've drafted is acceptable. I take it as somewhat encouraging that a couple guys who were relatively low picks-Northcraft (10th round) and Drury (13th round)-have done well enough that at this point it seems likely they will make the majors someday.
 
Baseball America reporting Braves signing No. 28 Matt Sims, RHP, UTSA and No. 38 J.J. Franco, 2B, Brown (son of John Franco).
 
Add Pat Dorrian to those acknowledging his signing in Twitter.

No. 35 Ryan Kokora pitching in Japan until mid-July. Braves are tracking, but he says he's leaning towards honoring his college commitment to Hawaii Pacific.
 
nsacpi said:
Given the small sample involved, it is hard to draw conclusions about whether the yield on the HS players we've drafted is acceptable. I take it as somewhat encouraging that a couple guys who were relatively low picks-Northcraft (10th round) and Drury (13th round)-have done well enough that at this point it seems likely they will make the majors someday.
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It is interesting. It seems that guys like Justin Black and Fernelys Sanchez fall into the Drury category as kids from Northern states where the seasons are short, so there's not a lot of "book" on the player being scouted. Black and Sanchez likely have better raw tools than Drury, but Drury was a noted sleeper by several pre-draft analysts. I'm curious to see whether the light bulb goes on for either Black or Sanchez. I'm a tools guy at heart, but you still have to figure out the chance of tools translating to production for each player. Braves seem to be falling short in that department. Is that the fault of the scouting or instructional staff? Don't know.

I think Northcraft and Lien (as California and Florida guys respectively) fall into a different category. Those guys had a ton of exposure prior to being drafted.
 
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