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Earlier today the Mets first decided to go overslot to sign 15th round selection Phillips Evans for $650,000. Evans is a shortstop from California high school who was thought to surely be attending San Diego State because of such a low round draft pick. According to Baseball America this was “the highest bonus ever paid [...]
Baseball America updated their draft database with official signing bonuses for most of the signed draft picks. It was already known that Cory Mazzoni signed for $437,500 and Danny Muno signed for just $10,000, Michael Fulmer‘s number is not out there yet, but the next highest price tag was 10th rounder Matt Budgell who signed [...]
According to Michael Fulmer himself on twitter, although he has not officially signed a contract with the Mets he has agreed to one. [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/MFulmer12/status/84115889561157632"] This is big news for the Mets. While I fully expected to Fulmer to sign at some point I did not think he would sign this early. Fulmer has signed [...]
[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/mwilliams2929/status/83321476496883713"] The twitter account says it is the official page of Spartanburg Methodist College Baseball, the school Missigman had committed to, so this is likely indeed true. Missigman has been as high as 89 mph with his fastball and at 6’4″ 170 lbs. there is still some projection left in his frame. There is [...]
