Official: Draft Signings Thread

[waldo7239117]

MLB.com says the Cubs signed 34 draft picks, but everywhere I see it only has 33. I wonder who if 34 is correct.

 

[waldo7239117]

Run down of all signed draftees and their bonuses:

1st round pick SS Jaiver Baez- Bonus 2.625
2nd round pick 1B Dan Vogelbach- Bonus 1.6M
3rd round pick OF Ezekiel DeVoss-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 7/12/11;Bonus of 500K
4th round pick RHP Tony Zych-400K
5th round pick RHP Taylor Scott- 279.950K
6th round pick C Neftali Rosario-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 7/5/11-150K
7th round pick 1B Travor Gretzky- 375K
9th round pick OF Garrett Schecht-235K
10th round pick SS Daniel Lockhart-395K
11th round pick OF Shawon Dunston Jr.-1.275M
13th round pick OF Darien Martin
14th round pick RHP Dillon Maples-2.5M (over 5 years)
15th round pick C Justin Marra-100K
16th round pick C Rafael Lopez-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11
17th round pick OF John Andreoli
18th round pick RHP James Pugliese-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11
19th round pick 1B Paul Hoilman-Assigned to Boise Hawks-Signed 6/13/11
20th round pick OF Ben Klafczynski-Assigned to Boise Hawks-Signed 6/13/11
21st round pick LHP Andrew Mckirahan-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 7/10/11
22nd round pick RHP Ethan Elias-
25th round pick 1B Rock Shoulders-294K
26th round pick RHP Michael Jensen-Assigned to AZL Cubs
27th round pick OF Taiwan Easterling-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 7-4-11-200K
30th round pick RHP Arturo Maltos-Garcia-
32nd round pick LHP Pete Levitt-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11
33nd round pick LHP Sheldon McDonald-
35th round pick RHP Ian Dickson
36th round pick IF Travis Garcia-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11-Retired
38th round pick RHP Casey Lucchese-
40th round pick LHP Patrick Francescon-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11
41st round pick LHP Austin Urban-100K
42nd round pick SS Brad Zapenas-Assigned to Boise Hawks-Signed 6/13/11
44th round pick SS Kenny Socorro-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11
46th round pick LHP Scott Weismann-Assigned to AZL Cubs-Signed 6/19/11

Found it...the Cubs also signed 35th round pick RHP Ian Dickson.

Thanks to...Twitter

 

[Jntg4]

:yeah:

9 of our Top 10 picks signed!

 

[waldo7239117]

And Dugas was not a big deal at all.....

 

[bleacherbum54]

I cant tell you how happy I am the Ricketts are focusing on player development and the draft like they are. This is how you build a winning franchise.


But watching Dillon Maples I hate his delivery terrible technique if he doesn't fix it IMO he will have arm troubles in his career.

 

[dabynsky]

Yeah the word is that his mechanics are going to need a lot of work. Though the reports on his stuff as having two possible plus plus pitches is very encouraging. He is a high risk/high reward project. If they can straighten out his mechanics he has the stuff to be an ace type pitcher. If they can't he will be another high priced flameout.

 

[bleacherbum54]

Yeah the word is that his mechanics are going to need a lot of work. Though the reports on his stuff as having two possible plus plus pitches is very encouraging. He is a high risk/high reward project. If they can straighten out his mechanics he has the stuff to be an ace type pitcher. If they can't he will be another high priced flameout.

o i have no doubt about stuff after watching a 5 minute clip. But I also have no doubt his mechanics might be the worst mechanics I have ever seen. To me it looks like an impossible thing to do I hope our staff down in A ball or rookie ball can help him out. If I was in charge I wouldn't pitch him in a game till he fixs his mechanics which could take years.


here is a video and an article on him http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/2011/03/game-report-dillon-maples/

But if he flames out as a pitcher he may make it as a hitter he is pretty good at the plate it seems like.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez-T45PAdi8[/ame]


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgnjyoW1rU&feature=related[/ame]

 

[bleacherbum54]

Tony Zych looks like he could be in the majors as early as next year. The guys stuff is crazy good.

 

[waldo7239117]

It looks like Maples throws half side arm.

 

[dabynsky]

Tony Zych looks like he could be in the majors as early as next year. The guys stuff is crazy good.

He could but there is a fair bit of competition that he has to jump over to make it to the majors as a right handed reliever. Zych though is probably the first of this draft class to make it though.

 

[Rice Cube]

Noticed in the previous posting that Travis Garcia "retired"...what's up with that?

 

[daddies3angels]

As you guys know i am not fan of Ricketts but he did keep his word and spend money on the Draft and international signings.

 

[dabynsky]

Noticed in the previous posting that Travis Garcia "retired"...what's up with that?

I'm sure there is a joke about not playing for a doomed franchise in there somewhere.

 

[Rice Cube]

I'm sure there is a joke about not playing for a doomed franchise in there somewhere.

Well, at least he didn't kill himself.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Great, Great, Great News

HOUSTON — Between a draft deep in talent and an ownership commitment that Tim Wilken said he hasn’t had since he ran the Toronto Blue Jays’ draft 20 years ago, the Cubs just completed their best draft in Wilken’s six years as scouting director.

‘‘I enjoyed a lot of the others,’’ Wilken said, ‘‘but this had a little bit of a euphoric feeling to it in the sense that I thought we were taking quality with almost every pick, the most quality you could get out of that pick.’’

Most important in that process, the Ricketts family backed up its pledged commitment with $12 million to get several tough picks signed, vaulting the Cubs from the bottom third in the majors in draft spending into the top third this year by the time Monday night’s signing deadline passed.

The result is a draft class of signed players that some outside analysts consider among the better classes in baseball and that Wilken said includes four signed players whose talent projected at or near first-round level — but some of whom were available in lower rounds because of perceived signability problems.

Among those was 14th-rounder Dillon Maples, a high school right-hander from North Carolina the Cubs considered the best pitcher they drafted — and perhaps the pick that most illustrates the Cubs’ philosophy this year.

Maples dropped so low in part because he was also a football kicker who seemed intent on going to the University of North Carolina as a two-sport player. When he was still on the board as the Cubs selected in the 14th round, chairman Tom Ricketts — who spent the first two days of the draft in June with Wilken and his staff — personally OK’d the pick and assured the resources to aggressively pursue signing him.

The Cubs paid Maples $2.5 million — second among Cubs picks only to No. 9 overall pick Javier Baez ($2.65 million), the prep shortstop from Jacksonville whose negotiations went into the final minutes Monday night.

‘‘He knew signing him wasn’t going to be real easy,’’ Wilken said. ‘‘[Ricketts] was saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to be aggressive and we’re going to try to sign him at the end.’ We knew most of these guys would take the length of the summer [to sign]. We didn’t know if we could sign them all, but with that little nudge that Tom did give us, it just gave us a lot of confidence in going ahead and taking these guys over guys who might get [to the majors] — role-player-type guys — who we would normally take in those spots in years past. . . .

‘‘It’s something that I’ve not been part of for almost 20 years since the heydays back in Toronto where that was pretty much the norm. It was a pretty special spring and pretty special summer.’’

The Cubs signed 10 of their top 11 picks (missing No. 8) and 20 of their top 22 among the 34 picks signed overall.

That included 11th-rounder Shawon Dunston Jr., another near-first-round-level talent who had a scholarship to Vanderbilt but eventually signed with the Cubs for $1.275 million. The fourth first-round talent in the Cubs’ evaluations was second-round power-hitting prep first baseman Daniel Vogelbach ($1.6 million), who may have gone higher if not for a Prince Fielder-type body and DH projections by some organizations.

In all, the Cubs have substantially ramped up spending on amateurs this year, including about $7 million on international signings.

‘‘I feel proud of what we’ve done for the five years up to now,’’ Wilken said, pointing to the 14 who made it to the majors from those drafts (third-most in MLB). ‘‘I think we’ve done decent so far, and I think we’ve done real [well] in this draft. And I hope it’s a sign of things to come.

‘‘We need to be a winning club every year, and I think this is a good avenue to do that.’’

Cubs savoring signings in a banner draft year - Chicago Sun-Times

12 million dollars is a lot of money. Good to see that money isn't a problem for the Ricketts. Can't wait to see what they do this offseason & what DewCawks has to say about this

 

[DewsSox79]

Great, Great, Great News



Cubs savoring signings in a banner draft year - Chicago Sun-Times

12 million dollars is a lot of money. Good to see that money isn't a problem for the Ricketts. Can't wait to see what they do this offseason & what DewCawks has to say about this

12 million dollars for the draft isnt a lot of money. but hey, if 500 million in debt and begging for money makes you think they are going to spend, have at it. I will be right once again. sig bet? i will do it for a year, you can do it 1 month.

 

[DewsSox79]

oh and dewcawks? poser.

 

[Rice Cube]

12 million dollars for the draft isnt a lot of money. but hey, if 500 million in debt and begging for money makes you think they are going to spend, have at it. I will be right once again. sig bet? i will do it for a year, you can do it 1 month.

To be frank, it's easier to invest $12MM in a draft for 30 or so kids to fill out minors rosters than it is to blow $20+MM per year for Prince Fielder. It's good that they spent well in a solid draft but this won't mean much for a few years.

 

[dabynsky]

12 million dollars for the draft isnt a lot of money. but hey, if 500 million in debt and begging for money makes you think they are going to spend, have at it. I will be right once again. sig bet? i will do it for a year, you can do it 1 month.

Actually it is a large amount, and a huge increase over recent years. You can argue that it doesn't mean that the team won't cut payroll in the offseason, but the Cubs have spent more on this draft than any year in the past. The past three seasons the Cubs ranked 24th in terms of amateur draft spending. This is a huge shift in philosophy to spend as much as they did in the draft and this is absolutely a positive thing no matter how much you want to diminish it.

 

[Rice Cube]

Actually it is a large amount, and a huge increase over recent years. You can argue that it doesn't mean that the team won't cut payroll in the offseason, but the Cubs have spent more on this draft than any year in the past. The past three seasons the Cubs ranked 24th in terms of amateur draft spending. This is a huge shift in philosophy to spend as much as they did in the draft and this is absolutely a positive thing no matter how much you want to diminish it.

I was happy with the draft I don't think it'll be super-impactful for years but it's a start, eh?