2024 Draft Signings Thread

[narwhalattack]

11 minutes ago, snoogans8056 said:

From what we've heard previously in the thread, we knew it would be a tough / impossible sign. We knew we'd have a ton of money available and thought we could influence that.

We will get the same pick next year, it's not a total loss. Just pushing the pick back a year.

Not a total loss, but I hope we don’t make a habit of tempting fate like this. I know HS picks can be fickle, but I would have thought there would have been some “Would you sign for X” discussions prior to the pick.

[balsamlaker]

Renz would be a nice day three sign.  Definitely has day two talent.

[biedergb]

With the money saved I would hope a few players were enticed to sign. Quantity is the key - you want quality but since injuries, development etc can’t always be predicted it’s safe to go for a bunch of talented players and see who develops, stays healthy.

if very few day 3 picks sigh then the draft is like the trade deadline - a dud. 

[wiguy94]

Will be interesting to see how many Day 3 picks they sign tomorrow. I feel like it won't be as many as people are hoping for especially if Nunnallee is one of them as he'd likely eat up a big chunk of the remaining bonus pool.

[titletownking]

46 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Will be interesting to see how many Day 3 picks they sign tomorrow. I feel like it won't be as many as people are hoping for especially if Nunnallee is one of them as he'd likely eat up a big chunk of the remaining bonus pool.

I'd whole heartedly disagree. I bet they walk away signing a majority of the guys from day 3. Levonas will not be signing. 

[markedman5]

 

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, titletownking said:

I'd whole heartedly disagree. I bet they walk away signing a majority of the guys from day 3. Levonas will not be signing. 

Yes I am including Levonas not signing. 

Nunnallee around $1.5M

Broughton, Renz, Brummel around $500K

Malamazian around $250K

That would use up the rest of the bonus pool.

We already know Parker isn't signing. Wech is supposedly a hard Oklahoma St commit that would need a sizable bonus to sign. Smith is a Mississippi State transfer portal commit and would be expensive to sign. Dubanewicz is a hard Florida commit and potentially already on campus.

[titletownking]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

Yes I am including Levonas not signing. 

Nunnallee around $1.5M

Broughton, Renz, Brummel around $500K

Malamazian around $250K

That would use up the rest of the bonus pool.

We already know Parker isn't signing. Wech is supposedly a hard Oklahoma St commit that would need a sizable bonus to sign. Smith is a Mississippi State transfer portal commit and would be expensive to sign. Dubanewicz is a hard Florida commit and potentially already on campus.

I believe your figure on Nunnallee is a bit too high. Nicholas Montgomery signed for just under 1 mil and was rated very similarly too Nunnallee, even a few spots higher on MLB draft's top 200 list. Heard rumblings he would take around 1 mil, so let's say 1.2 mil at most which leaves $ to throw at Wech and Smith. That's a life changing amount of money for these kids and now they get paid a better salary as well by MiLB. Still leaves them signing 6 or 7 guys from that 11-20 crop. Nunnallee is probably the top target left but if they are unable to work out an agreement, they could walk away with 8 from the group. .

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, titletownking said:

I believe your figure on Nunnallee is a bit too high. Nicholas Montgomery signed for just under 1 mil and was rated very similarly too Nunnallee, even a few spots higher on MLB draft's top 200 list. Heard rumblings he would take around 1 mil, so let's say 1.2 mil at most which leaves $ to throw at Wech and Smith. That's a life changing amount of money for these kids and now they get paid a better salary as well by MiLB. Still leaves them signing 6 or 7 guys from that 11-20 crop. Nunnallee is probably the top target left but if they are unable to work out an agreement, they could walk away with 8 from the group. .

$300K wouldn't be enough to get either Wech or Smith

[snoogans8056]

27 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

Being lumped in with the Rays is good company if we are going with the whole "punt to a better draft class" theory.

[titletownking]

35 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

$300K wouldn't be enough to get either Wech or Smith

Maybe not, but I don't believe Nunnallee gets 1.5 million. That extra 500k you mocked to him can be used to sign one of those two plus the additional 150k that does not count against the pool. 

[wiguy94]

Just now, titletownking said:

Maybe not, but I don't believe Nunnallee gets 1.5 million. That extra 500k you mocked to him can be used to sign one of those two plus the additional 150k that does not count against the pool. 

I was already not including the $150K in my numbers

[titletownking]

Just now, wiguy94 said:

I was already not including the $150K in my numbers

Ahh gotcha, regardless, i'd be shocked if Nunnallee is much over a mil.

[BrewerFan]

22 hours ago, LouisEly said:

We saw how expensive pitching was at the trade deadline.  Anyone still upset that the Brewers drafted 17 pitchers?

I'm never mad at drafting pitching...I don't think we could draft too many pitchers. 

[Jim Goulart]

6 hours ago, patrickgpe said:

I wasn't aware that applied to CBs as well. that lowers the risk and next year they will get CB A and B picks then. 

Plus the Adames comp pick after the first round…

[markedman5]

 

[narwhalattack]

13 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

With the Day 3 signings coming in, I think this may be the final nail in the coffin for any hopes of signing Levonas.

[wiguy94]

With Broughton signing for $535K. That leaves $2,115,580 to sign other round 11-20 picks assuming Levonas does not sign.

[BrewerFan]

36 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

With Broughton signing for $535K. That leaves $2,115,580 to sign other round 11-20 picks assuming Levonas does not sign.

So in theory you could still give Levonas ~3.4 yet, right? His slot is 1.2 or so, you're obviously taking his slot out of the total to come up with the 2.1M left.

I understand it's very unlikely he signs, but I wonder what his number was/is?

Are we thinking this is going to be a year the Brewers juts don't spend that 5%?

You can't really expect them to get a Pratt and Bitonti later on and come like 30 bucks away every year. 

Also really makes next years draft interesting given they should have 5 in the top 2 rounds or top 70 picks. 

[Jake McKibbin]

 

 

[titletownking]

Not sure if it’s been posted but it looks like Tyler Renz has signed as well. 

[StearnsFTW]

I bet Smith was a big bonus.  I doubt they sign Nunnallee now.

[Jake McKibbin]

2 hours ago, titletownking said:

Not sure if it’s been posted but it looks like Tyler Renz has signed as well. 

Apparently so though nothing confirmed yet

Smith is certainly interesting as the results/stuff don't jump off the page but that second year post TJ seems to be what people are looking at, and that apparently a lot of scouts think they can get significantly more out of his arm/frame?

[snoogans8056]

39 minutes ago, Jake McKibbin said:

Apparently so though nothing confirmed yet

Smith is certainly interesting as the results/stuff don't jump off the page but that second year post TJ seems to be what people are looking at, and that apparently a lot of scouts think they can get significantly more out of his amr/frame?

I’ve seen stuff saying he also lost a lot of time due to heart surgery. Guy just needs to catch a break and get healthy.

https://www.on3.com/teams/mississippi-state-bulldogs/news/mississippi-state-baseball-travis-smith-kentucky-transfer/

Also he was very highly rated out of high school. 

Travis Smith (2021): https://www.perfectgame.org/players/playerprofile.aspx?ID=407405

Chris Levonas: https://www.perfectgame.org/players/playerprofile.aspx?ID=630036

Bryce Meccage: https://www.perfectgame.org/players/playerprofile.aspx?ID=640499

[Sugarrayray]

So if Levonas doesn’t sign, what pick will the Brewers get for him next year?