The deadline for MLB teams to sign their draft picks is Monday at midnight, ET. Which first-round picks have signed, and which first-round picks are waiting until the last second?
Pirates Can’t Sign 1st-Round Draft Pick
PresswireThe Pirates had something like $3.5 million available for Appel’s signing bonus, so we may assume they offered him something like $3.5 million. Which is more than usual for the eighth pick in the draft, but less than usual for the first pick in the draft. And Appel might easily have been the first pick in the draft.
The good news for the Pirates is that they’ll have a compensatory draft pick -- the ninth in the first round -- next June. The bad news is that the draft next year isn’t supposed to be as deep as this year’s, and they’re little chance of choosing someone with Appel’s talent.
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