Signing Deadline Thread

by laxtonto on Aug 14, 2025 4:47 PM EDT

I figured it would be a good idea to make a single thread to dump all of the late minor league signings ...

So far it seems like the major stumbling blocks are with Alonso, Crowe, and Hosmer.

Dykstra's hip might lead to problems aswell.

Looks like Melville and Posey has signed...

So out of the top 11, Alvarez, Hosmer, Matsuz, Alonso, Crowe and Smoak are unsigned. Feilds, Dykstra and Cole, fill out the rest of the unsigned 1st rounders.

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My predictions..

Dykstra doesn’t sign and Crow probably doesn’t sign but all the other first rounders do. Alonso might be a close call though, rooming w A-Rod in NYC is a pretty sweet fallback plan.

Keep in mind that since Josh Fields is a college senior the Aug 15 deadline doesn’t apply to him. The deadline for him signing is one week before the start of the ‘09 draft, although I’d expect his deal to get done by, at worst, sometime this winter.

Yanks 2nd or 3rd rounder Scott Bittle is probably heading back to Ole Miss for his senior year. The Yanks are saying hes got a bum shoulder and, accordingly, should take a lower bonus. Bittle disagrees.

BA has a rundown of all of the first ten rounders unsigned and their predictions..
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/news/2008/266692.html
They also are reporting that the Giants signed 3rd and 4th rounders Roger Keishnick (Tex Tech OF) and Brandon Crawford (UCLA SS) for overslot bonuses.
Plus they say the Reds are going to give 500k to a darkhorse of sorts
http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/?p=423

by nms on Aug 14, 2025 4:59 PM EDT 0 recs

Daniel Webb

It says Hultzen is going to attend UVA not a surprise, but what about Webb and Kentucky?

by AZDBACKS on Aug 14, 2025 5:06 PM EDT 0 recs

Webb fell to round 12

so that is why he wasn’t mentioned in that BA piece.

Kentucky baseball coach John Cohen left to take over the Miss St job after legend Ron Polk retired. Because of this Webb will not be going to Kentucky. If he goes to college it will be Okaloosa-Walton CC, in Florida, or Miss St.

by nms on Aug 14, 2025 5:08 PM EDT up 0 recs

News

Has there been any news on him possibly signing or going to college recently?

by AZDBACKS on Aug 14, 2025 5:12 PM EDT up 0 recs

coming into the draft

he was considered signable, but right before it his dad put out a big figure and since then it has looked like Webb is probably not going to sign.

I’d bet on him turning down the D-Backs and Miss St (and Kentucky) and spending one year at the CC and trying his luck next year.

by nms on Aug 14, 2025 5:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

Bubba Meyer

He was another UK commit. Any news on him?

Founder of the Rowdy Hardy Fan Club

by eazyb81 on Aug 14, 2025 5:41 PM EDT up 0 recs

still headed to UK

Apparently Boston has been throwing 7 figures at him but he is still considered unsignable.

Kentucky hired assoc. head coach (and pitching coach.. and top recruited) Gary Henderson to take over the program right after Cohen went out. He managed to keep most of that class committed.

Interestingly, Henderson’s background is as a West Coast guy, which you don’t see a whole lot of in the SEC

by nms on Aug 14, 2025 6:14 PM EDT up 0 recs

Response

I thought BP reported a few weeks ago that it looked like Boston and Meyer had a deal done for $2M . . .but I haven’t heard anything else.

by mrkupe on Aug 14, 2025 10:42 PM EDT up 0 recs

BP has reported a lot of signings that they say

are done deals that haven’t come through yet.
We’ll see.

by nms on Aug 15, 2025 1:25 AM EDT up 0 recs

There are also notable picks from the later rounds

It looks like the Yanks won’t pony up to sign 16th round Indiana HS LHP Blake Monar away from Indiana University. Monar is a curve and slider specialist who has dominated this summer for the elite Midland (Cincy) Redskins travel team but his velo has been down, partly due to a case of strep throat.

UGA looks like it will get two of the top HS pitchers in the state onto campus. Micheal Palazzone and Cecil Tanner onto campus. Both were early round arms who fell for money reasons and the Braves took fliers on the local guys late.
UGA looks to get real lucky this year by getting those two plus two 3rd round position players into school and getting 10 round junior RHP ace Trevor Holder to return.

Braves 17th rounder Mark Pope is a similar case, but not as good as Tanner or Palazzone, he probably won’t be bought away from Ga Tech.

The Braves signed 14 of their top 15 picks but almost no one after that.
The one early guy they didn’t sign, RHP JJ Hoover from an Alabama CC, has been showing some sweet velo and is an All-Star in the Cape Cod League. He is a WVU commit, it is uncertain if he will sign.

by nms on Aug 14, 2025 5:06 PM EDT 0 recs