Earlier this evening, Tom Haudricourt reported the following:
MLB Draft Deadline: Brewers Will Not Sign Dylan Covey
Brewers scouting director Bruce Seid just told me that talks have broken off with 1st round pick Dylan Covey. I'm working on the details.
And now Haudricourt provides an update:
I just spoke with Brewers scouting director Bruce Seid and he told me that first-round pick Dylan Covey has decided to go to the University of San Diego rather than sign with Milwaukee.
Seid said I’d have to get the specifics from the Covey family and I have a call in to them. He did tell me, “It wasn’t about money.”
Because they failed to sign Covey, the Brewers will receive a compensatory pick in next year’s first round. As of right now, that will be pick number 15. Should anyone that picked higher than them last June fail to sign their first rounder, though, that pick will be knocked back.
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