2025 Official Draft Signings Thread

[wiguy94]

11 minutes ago, Jake McKibbin said:

Also that's now two consecutive years the Brewers have failed to sign seniors taken in rounds 11-20 after Caedmon Parker in 2024

Both Parker and Coil were college juniors not seniors

[James Zumstein]

Prep Baseball Report on Peyton Niksch - September 2024

UDFA Peyton Niksch threw a perfect game earlier this year while striking out 16 of 21 batters faced, finished third in DII JuCo in ERA and seventh in Ks.

[LouisEly]

17 minutes ago, biedergb said:

The one I am more surprised by is Coil. A left reliever going back for senior year turning down $150K (or so), wow. I was hoping he would be a great relief arm that could fly up, but we will see.

Maybe the Arkansas staff told him that they think he can start next year.  Perhaps he believes that if he can excel as a starter as well as he did as a reliever that he can get more in bonus next year.  

That, or maybe he has a smokin' hot girlfriend at Arkansas.  Wouldn't be the first time that a pretty young woman swayed the rational decision of a young man.

[narwhalattack]

Would’ve loved to have Underwood, Lauridsen, and Cadiz in the fold as well, but overall still a very solid class. I wonder who will turn out to be this year’s Ethan Dorchies.

[Jake McKibbin]

31 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Both Parker and Coil were college juniors not seniors

Tired lad here, meant to say they chose senior years over signing with the Brewers 

[duewizard]

I think that the 2023 draft will be very hard to beat but this one was good too. Would have loved to get Cadiz too but overall another fantastic job

[bigred]

7 hours ago, MattK said:

Well, you don't need to be 18 to go to college.  If 18, and offered a bunch more money than you may ever get a chance to make - what if he gets hurt in college and doesn't come back well - in the career you are going into anyway, I would think 99 out of 100 folks take the $$.
Just bummed, looking at a ceiling somewhere around a Max Fried/Cole Hamels type.  Not a ton of those guys around, ever.  Between Levonas last year and Underwood this year, the Crew could rue missing on some future #2 starters. 

I'm well aware of the risk they take by not signing. Some just prefer to go to college, though. Some probably choose college, because they don’t like the team that drafted them. 

[liveforoctober]

 

Who would have thought it. Be curious, not judgemental.

[wallus]

1 minute ago, liveforoctober said:

 

Who would have thought it. Be curious, not judgemental.

Did this include the 5% overage? If not, that is not being entirely honest.

[rccola42]

5 minutes ago, wallus said:

Did this include the 5% overage? If not, that is not being entirely honest.

Does not. May have been by design to stay within the bonus pool or just a product of not having anyone to give that extra money to. My guess is the former, that the organizational mandate is to not use the overage money. I don't believe we used it last year either. 

[wallus]

1 minute ago, rccola42 said:

Does not. May have been by design to stay within the bonus pool or just a product of not having anyone to give that extra money to. My guess is the former, that the organizational mandate is to not use the overage money. I don't believe we used it last year either. 

If it is an organizational mandate, stuff like that is much more annoying to me than not spending more on free agents.

[Spencer Michaelis]

Here's what I can say on the unused money... It was offered to all of the unsigned HS guys and they all declined. In fact, I hear that Lauridsen turned down an offer for closer to $1.5 mil at some point throughout the process. Pretty wild, but hey, what can you do? In the end they're kids who apparently really wanted to go to college unless they got insane money thrown at them.

[wallus]

4 minutes ago, Spencer Michaelis said:

Here's what I can say on the unused money... It was offered to all of the unsigned HS guys and they all declined. In fact, I hear that Lauridsen turned down an offer for closer to $1.5 mil at some point throughout the process. Pretty wild, but hey, what can you do? In the end they're kids who apparently really wanted to go to college unless they got insane money thrown at them.

Thanks for the information. Assuming this is true, I am less annoyed.

On a side note, 1.5 mil is insane money to me.

[mudbutt]

Don’t forget the big school guys are getting NIL money as well.  Probably nothing crazy but sign me up to be paid money to attend USC.

[igor67]

There is also importance from a negotiating perspective of demonstrating that the offer is the offer. You run into problems if everyone knows you are going to use every last dollar.

[SF70]

This is my favorite class maybe ever.

The pitching added is better than in ‘23 or ‘24, my opinion, and the 2 positionals taken early have good hitting upside with power potential.

HS pitchers watching what this team has been doing with their pitching development have to be salivating over the prospect of being drafted by this organization.

Convinced the team is going to continue to draft pitching each and every draft until they have so much organizational pitching they can’t develop them all. 

A true pitching factory. They can supply teams around the game with some of their pitching in exchange for positional talent we need. 

[Spencer Michaelis]

1 hour ago, wallus said:

On a side note, 1.5 mil is insane money to me.

Oh same lol. Just mean it in the context of the draft as a whole

[snoogans8056]

22 minutes ago, SF70 said:

This is my favorite class maybe ever.

The pitching added is better than in ‘23 or ‘24, my opinion, and the 2 positionals taken early have good hitting upside with power potential.

HS pitchers watching what this team has been doing with their pitching development have to be salivating over the prospect of being drafted by this organization.

Convinced the team is going to continue to draft pitching each and every draft until they have so much organizational pitching they can’t develop them all. 

A true pitching factory. They can supply teams around the game with some of their pitching in exchange for positional talent we need. 

Carolina’s pitching roster may be entirely made up of teenage starters next year.

[biedergb]

2 minutes ago, snoogans8056 said:

Carolina’s pitching roster may be entirely made up of teenage starters next year.

It’s close to that already

[StearnsFTW]

4 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

 

Who would have thought it. Be curious, not judgemental.

Easy, Ted.

 

They had more to spend, but you can't make them take it.

 

Fully tongue in cheek on the Ted part. 😃

[Jake McKibbin]

After the chaos of yesterday, we have our final set of signings and bonuses (highlighted from red to green by how overslot they are conditionally)

[umphrey]

So they used all of the budget but not the 5% overage? If I'm reading that correctly, that's pretty good. Ideally yes they would use the 5% but that's kinda like threading the needle, very difficult to do while still being aggressive. 

[Jake McKibbin]

4 minutes ago, umphrey said:

So they used all of the budget but not the 5% overage? If I'm reading that correctly, that's pretty good. Ideally yes they would use the 5% but that's kinda like threading the needle, very difficult to do while still being aggressive. 

Yep, in a nutshell!

And valuably, our resident prospect nerd suggested they didn't avoid the overage for a lack of effort at least

[Jake McKibbin]

Also, regarding spending the overage, any team venturing up to 5% over has to pay a 75% fine on the overage. So if the Brewers spent a further $656k just f the sake of things, the actual cost would have been $1.15m to the organization

[BrewerFan]

46 minutes ago, Jake McKibbin said:

Also, regarding spending the overage, any team venturing up to 5% over has to pay a 75% fine on the overage. So if the Brewers spent a further $656k just f the sake of things, the actual cost would have been $1.15m to the organization

Yeah... but that's a paltry sum when talking about signing a couple of HS prospects.

They've stayed within the bonus the last two years and that's fine. They're willing to spend the money. I'd be a bit bothered if they were skimping here. Their payroll is already lower... but they've been doing a great job at continuing to add talent to the system. So I'm alright with that. 

But it doesn't seem like it's a factor. IIRC last year they were pretty much in the same situation. Made very aggressive offers, kids just turned them down.