- #1: RHP Chris Stratton ($1.85M, exactly slot)
- #8: LHP Joseph Kurrasch
- #9: OF Shilo McCall ($200,000, which was slotted for $125.6K; article has nice first person description of how Giants negotiated with him, also from his advisor)
- #12: SS Jeremy Sy
- #13: 2B Ryan Jones
- #15: C Leonardo Rojas
- #16: RHP Ian Gardeck
- #17: RHP Christopher Johnson
- #18: SS Matthew Duffy
- #19: LHP Randall Zeigler
- #21: C Benjamin Turner
- #22: OF Brennan Metzger
- #23: LHP Andrew Leenhouts
- #24: OF Andrew Cain
- #25: C Sam Eberle
- #26: LHP Mason McVay
- #27: LHP Chris Fern
- #28: IF Joey Rapp
- #29: OF Shayne Houck
- #31: RHP Jason Forjet
- #32: LHP Christopher Pickering
- #33: RHP Brandon Farley
These are just my opinions. I cannot promise that I will be perfect, but I can promise that I will seek to understand and illuminate whatever moves that the Giants make (my obsession and compulsion). I will share my love of baseball and my passion for the Giants. And I will try to teach, best that I can. Often, I tackle the prevailing mood among Giants fans and see if that is a correct stance, good or bad.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
2012 Draft: 22 Signings So Far
Including Stratton, there have been 22 signings in total (CSN Enteen; also has nice video of his first interview discussing his signing and other questions, seems like a very nice guy, good manners, well spoken) out of 40. Here are the signings:
The link to the newpaper article about McCall was in interesting read. The higher up who was obssessing about McCasland had to be Sabes himself. I'm a Sabes supporter, but the guy has extremely thin skin and a very long memory.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm not sure why the McCall draft and signing is still being referred to in some corners of the internet as a "fiasco." I mean, they got him signed for an amount that won't cost them draft pick penalties even if they are not able to go below slot with other picks. Yeah, if several picks 2-7 end up not signing because of it, then it might end up being a fiasco, but again this is much ado about absolutely nothing in my book.
DeleteThey are calling it a fiasco because they don't understand how business negotiations go. They already feel that the Giants are being cheap so they frame this as a fiasco because the Giants "lowballed" Shilo early on and what not, then ended up paying over slot in the 9th round when he would have been around slot in the fifth round.
DeleteNow, I don't know what happened or what their preferences are, but to me, it could also be viewed as the Giants preferring the players they drafted in the rounds they did, and they were hoping to pick up Shilo at some point, but not over the guys they had selected already. They then decided to pull the trigger, because it is not that much money.
But their view is that by being penurious, the Giants almost lost this player that they clearly liked.
What they don't realize is that every team has a lot of different prospects that they like and are negotiating with, and it is a volume business, if not one, then the other, and then you move on when you lose one or another on your list.
And at $200,000, that's not a very high probability prospect, he could certainly beat the odds and reach the majors, but the odds are totally against him.
But that is the beauty of baseball, when somebody beats the oods, like Ryan Vogelsong or any prospect who was drafted way back in the draft and makes it to become a regular.
OCG - just saw this. I'm the one who called it a lowball, so I guess you are saying I don't understand how business negotiations go.
DeleteOK, the "general" they, obviously you can speak for yourself.
DeleteBased on the numbers available on Perfect Game, and the data on BA's draft database, I can deduce that Joseph Kurrasch signed for slot, $134,500.
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