Draft Signings 2010
by TtD on Jun 11, 2010 10:24 AM EDT
Email
Print
I thought it'd be worth keeping track of the signings as they come in, players signed in bold hopefully, list thanks to battersbox, many thanks to them.
| Round | Overall | Player | Position | School | State | |
| 1 | 11 | Deck McGuire | RHP | Georgia Tech | Ga. | |
| 1s | 34 | Aaron Sanchez | RHP | Barstow (Calif.) HS | Calif. | Signed |
| 1s | 38 | Noah Syndergaard | RHP | Legacy HS, Mansfield, Texas | Texas | Signed |
| 1s | 41 | Asher Wojciechowski | RHP | The Citadel | S.C. | Signed |
| 2 | 61 | Griffin Murphy | LHP | Redlands (Calif.) East Valley HS | Calif. | Signed |
| 2 | 69 | Kellen Sweeney | 3B | Jefferson HS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Iowa | |
| 2 | 80 | Justin Nicolino | RHP | University HS, Orlando | Fla. | Likely |
| 3 | 93 | Christopher Hawkins | 3B | North Gwinnett HS, Suwanee, Ga. | Ga. | Signed |
| 3s | 113 | Marcus Knecht | OF | Connors State (Okla.) JC | Okla, | Signed |
| 4 | 126 | Sam Dyson | RHP | South Carolina | S.C. | |
| 5 | 156 | Dickie Joe Thon | SS | Academia Perpetio Socorro, San Juan, P.R. | ||
| 6 | 186 | Sean Nolin | LHP | San Jacinto (Texas) JC | Texas | |
| 7 | 216 | Mitchell Taylor | LHP | Spring (Texas) HS | Texas | |
| 8 | 246 | Logan Ehlers | LHP | Nebraska City (Neb.) HS | Neb. | |
| 9 | 276 | Brandon Mims | SS | Smith HS, Carrollton, Texas | Texas | |
| 10 | 306 | Tyler Shreve | RHP | Phelps County HS, Redlands, Calif. | Calif. | |
| 11 | 336 | Shane Opitz | SS | Heritage HS, Centennial, Colo. | Colo. | |
| 12 | 366 | Omar Cotto | OF | Bonneville School, San Juan, P.R. | ||
| 13 | 396 | Tyler Painton | LHP | Centennial HS, Bakersfield, Calif. | Calif. | |
| 14 | 426 | Dayton Marze | RHP | Louisiana-Lafayette | La. | Signed |
| 15 | 456 | Zak Adams | LHP | Flower Mound (Texas) HS | Texas | |
| 16 | 486 | Dalton Pompey | OF | Fraser SS, Mississauga, Ont. | Signed | |
| 17 | 516 | Myles Jaye | RHP | Starrs Mill HS, Fayetteville, Ga. | Ga. | |
| 18 | 546 | Kris Bryant | 3B | Bonanza HS, Las Vegas | Nev. | |
| 19 | 576 | Travis Garrett | RHP | Cypress (Calif.) JC | Calif. | Signed |
| 20 | 606 | Art Charles | LHP | Bakersfield (Calif.) JC | Calif. | Signed |
| 21 | 636 | Chris Marlowe | RHP | Navarro (Texas) JC | Texas | |
| 22 | 666 | Aaron Westlake | OF | Vanderbilt | Tenn. | |
| 23 | 696 | Angel Gomez | OF | Maria Cruz Buitrago HS, San Lorenzo | Signed | |
| 24 | 726 | Ronnie Melendez | OF | Cowley County (Kan.) CC | Kan. | Signed |
| 25 | 756 | Brando Tessar | RHP | Chaminade HS, West Hills, Calif. | Calif. | |
| 26 | 786 | Jay Johnson | LHP | Texas Tech | Texas | |
| 27 | 816 | Eric Arce | C | Lakeland (Fla.) HS | Fla. | |
| 28 | 846 | Adaric Kelly | RHP | Trinity Christian Academy, Lake Worth, Fla. | Fla. | |
| 29 | 876 | Jonathan Jones | OF | Long Beach State | Calif. | Signed |
| 30 | 906 | Steve McQuail | 2B | Canisius | N.Y. | Signed |
| 31 | 936 | Luis Benitez | RHP | Ashworth HS, Carolina, P.R. | ||
| 32 | 966 | Andy Fermin | 2B | Chipola (Fla.) JC | Fla. | Signed |
| 33 | 996 | Melvin Garcia | OF | Monroe HS, New York | N.Y. | Signed |
| 34 | 1026 | Tyler Powell | RHP | Belmont-Abbey (N.C.) | N.C. | Signed |
| 35 | 1056 | Dan Barnes | RHP | Princeton | N.J. | Signed |
| 36 | 1086 | David Whitehead | RHP | Moeller HS, Cincinnati | Ohio | |
| 37 | 1116 | Chad Green | RHP | Effingham (Ill.) HS | Ill. | |
| 38 | 1146 | Pierce Rankin | OF | Washington | Wash. | Signed |
| 39 | 1176 | Nick Vander Tuig | RHP | Oakdale (Calif.) HS | Calif. | |
| 40 | 1206 | Brandon Berl | RHP | St. Mary's | Calif. | Signed |
| 41 | 1236 | Seth Conner | 3B | Logan-Rogersville HS, Rogersville, Mo. | Mo. | |
| 42 | 1266 | Drew Permison | RHP | Towson | Md. | Signed |
| 43 | 1296 | Ronald Schreurs | LHP | Freedom HS, Orlando | Fla. | |
| 44 | 1326 | Mott Hyde | 2B | Calhoun (Ga.) HS | Ga. | |
| 45 | 1356 | Phil Diedrick | OF | Pickering HS, Ajax, Ont. | ||
| 46 | 1386 | Connor Smith | RHP | Blessed Trinity SS, Grimsby, Ont. | ||
| 47 | 1416 | Gabriel Romero | RHP | Roosevelt HS, Los Angeles | Calif. | |
| 48 | 1446 | Nick Studer | C | St. Michael's College HS, Toronto | ||
| 49 | 1476 | Matt Abraham | 2B | Eckerd (Fla.) | Fla. | Signed |
| 50 | 1506 | Kelly Norris-Jones | C | Lambrick Park SS, Victoria, B.C. | ||
| UDFA | Jesse Hernandez | P | Central Michigan University | Signed | ||
| UDFA | Chris Enourato | RHP | West Virginia University | Signed |
122 comments
|
18 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
GCL
college pitchers will head to Auburn.
On the topic, Jake Marisnick believes he’s headed to GCL Jays.
Really?
I’m going to Auburn in July…was hoping to see him there.
Gotta play 'em, might as well win 'em.
First Tweet
back to Dunedin today. should know in the next few days where I’m going to play. I’ll post when I know. hate airports!
Then he posted this
Gulf Coast League for me
Link
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Very good idea and rec'd
A couple of ideas for improving this:
- Add the day 3 players to the list
- Add a column where we can put a link to the source like this
1s 38 Noah Syndergaard LHP Legacy HS, Mansfield, Texas Texas Signed
Aye, working on it but just chasing down the extra rounds
There’s your links in.
Will get the rest in later, gotta head out for a few hours
But you should have a full list by tomorrow.
I really hope Sanchez and Wojciechowski do NOT sign
we can use the picks in next year’s much much better draft. Not signing McGuire would also be pretty solid.
I'm with COCO!!!
So we dump two steals in this draft
for the chance to get someone potentially better in a draft we have no idea on yet, but may be better. Think i’ll pass on that one, both are real high upside guys and probably our best two picks.
Doubly Agreed
Considering there are reasons to believe that we will have a ton of picks next year do to some free agent partings, it would be stupid to lose yet another year of top prospect development because we didn’t sign guys. We lost a year of development last year because of this.
Griffin Murphy Signs…
http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/berka/2010/06/murphy_agrees_to_terms_with_bl.html
All added
Thinking of adding links for any likely to sign articles.
Just read the Knecht article
Impressed with Deck McGuire’s comments. Good for him. There’s no rush. Don’t know much about him, but sounds mature.
Also as a pro-Canadian baseball guy. Glad we took fliers on local and Canadian guys in the late rounds; even if nothing comes of it.
It’s in the Knecht articule linked in TtD’s comment. I’ll quote the relevant bit…
On Monday night, he told reporters at a post-game news conference he was still too wrapped up in Georgia Tech’s crushing loss to think too deeply about becoming a Jay.
"The Blue Jays are a great organization and I look forward to helping them out in the future perhaps," McGuire said after the season-ending loss. "I’m still in the moment . . . tonight my teammates are a way more important story than I am."
Since then he hasn’t spoken to the media, declining interview requests through a Georgia Tech spokesperson.
Can't find a news article, any idea where you saw it?
Twitter feed or something?
Speaking of signings, looks like the Jays are in for another international
28 yr old pitcher Yuniesky Maya
has just been cleared to sign, and the jays are one of the teams interested. Anyone remember him from the WBC?
interesting
5’11, 174lb 28 year old righty isnt really what you’d think people would be after in terms of an international prospect.
Onions Baby Onions
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Travis Garrett.
Toronto Blue Jays signed 2B Andy Fermin.
Toronto Blue Jays signed 2B Matt Abraham.
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Daniel Barnes.
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Brandon Berl.
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Noah Syndergaard.
Toronto Blue Jays signed OF Marcus Knecht.
Toronto Blue Jays signed OF Ronald Melendez.
Toronto Blue Jays signed OF Angel Gomez.
Toronto Blue Jays signed 3B Christopher Hawkins.
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Tyler Powell.
Toronto Blue Jays signed OF Stephen McQuail.
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Aaron Sanchez.
Toronto Blue Jays signed RHP Drew Permison.
Will get the list updated ASAP, just got in.
Has been a good few days so far.
Congrats TtD
This is the most Rec’d BBB Fanpost of all time.
I'm on a horse.
by craig in calgary on Jun 15, 2010 7:56 PM EDT reply actions
Not bad for my first fanpost :D
Might have to do them more often from my little british haven of blue jays madness.
Jays as a rule don't declare their signing bonuses, it would all be guesses
So not sure of the value of doing that.
I've seen BA report that Sanchez was $775,000 and Syndergaard was $600, 000
and Hawkins and Knecht were $350,000 a piece and Murphy was $800, 000
Which are probably right but again all coming from other sources other then the Jays. Presumably BA got the information from the prospects themselves but its hard to know.
I would think if come across the info post it in the comments but without it being able to be confirmed lets leave it out of the post.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Ok, but I take BA as a one of the best sources, it's not like fanpost author will
get sued if the figues turns out to be wrong
The fan post author is an accountant though
And obsesses over the accuracy of his figures :D
Why aren't signing bonuses declared?
I can understand the Jays not wanting to declare signing bonuses as a rule if they don’t have to – why give that information to other players you’re negotiating with. But I’m wondering why MLB contracts are generally public knowledge (is this a rule?), why wouldn’t signing bonuses be too?
Hmm, according to Griffin in his new mail bag, Deck Mcguire may not want to be a
Blue Jay:
“he has cast off bad vibes about being happy drafted by the Jays. On draft day, he refused to participate in a conference call with Jays’ media, a long-time tradition on draft day even for players not yet signed. In fact when the Jays’ texted him about a call in follow-up, when he found out who it was he never texted back. When Morgan Campbell of The Star went through the Georgia Tech sports information department, they said okay, then came back and said he didn’t want to do it. Hmm!”
Just read that on BB too
Honestly I wouldn’t mind at all if he decided to not sign with the Jays. He is one of the prospects I was least excited about, and this pick is protected. Next year’s draft is considered to be very deep and having 2 first rounders would be swell. But then again I don’t think it is in his best interest to not sign, so I assume he will eventually.
Deck was supposed to be signable too…
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Stop listening to Dick Griffin.
McGuire will sign. Nothing more than a sports writer stretching an insignificant story into something serious.
I haven’t read Richard Griffin in quite some time. I think hes an idiot. I didn’t click on the link at all.
I was just replying to Woodman that we would have to use a signable pick next year with a response that Deck was/is considered a signable pick this year.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
Griff's great on Twitter
what he lacks in cunning baseball insight, he makes up for with wit in 144 characters or less.
Who's his agent?
In terms of Deck McGuire not wanting to talk on draft day, in the interviews I read with him it was because he was frustrated at his Georgia Tech team having just lost a big game and didn’t feel it was right for his personal draft news to take precedence over that.
As for him not wanting to talk to the Jays, who is his agent? Could it be something like the deal with James Paxton last year where Paul Beeston said that his agent…er, advisor Scott Boras wouldn’t let the team have direct contact with the player. Sounds ridiculously ungentlemanly, if I can put it that way, but could be a negotiating tactic.
I can’t really see McGuire not signing. Sure, he could go back and do his senior year of university, but he’s at the point after his junior year where a lot of guys seem to turn pro as maybe not much more to learn in college ball. Also he’s been drafted 11th overall, so hard to do much better than that in next year’s draft, while much more risk of slipping further, so it’d be kind of crazy not to sign now.
AA confident he'll sign McGuire
This wouldn’t qualify as moving Deck McGuire’s signing into the “likely” category I don’t think, but for what it’s worth in a Canwest article AA says he is confident that they’ll sign their top pick though negotiations will probably push the 15 August deadline. Online scuttlebutt to the contrary, AA and scouting director Andrew Tinnish have spoken to McGuire, who AA describes as “very ecstatic” at being drafted by the Jays and "very polite:
After Georgia Tech got eliminated (in an NCAA regional tournament), he said he was pleased to be drafted by us and he was honoured and he heard it was a great organization. He seemed very thrilled to be drafted by our organization and he certainly seemed excited to get started on his pro career.
So why will it push the deadline? AA just figures that’s the way it usually goes with the top half of the first round picks as they all try to wait to gauge the market with other signings. And the good news, they were actually able to talk to McGuire without an agent taking part (suck on that Scott Boras!).
There was a similar little blurb on this at MLB.com.
The bit I found interesting is a comment from AA on how he’d like the draft signing period to be dramatically shorter – to just a week or two:
“I’d love to see the deadline pushed up to a week after the Draft or two weeks after the Draft,” Anthopoulos said. “I think it would help everybody. I think it would help families. I think it would help colleges. I think it would certainly help Minor League baseball, because some of these players would be out playing, and also help players at well. I think those are some of the things that are going to be talked about in the next collective bargaining agreement.”
That is interesting
It certainly would help colleges. As it stands many colleges don’t have their rosters finalized until the first day of class.
Bob Elliot says
Jays sign OF Dalton Pompey (Mississauga, Ont.) of Oakville Royals … 16th round $140,000 US
By my count that’s 19 of 56 now signed +1 undrafted.
What is the typical percentage of draft that is signed?
Just looking at it...
of the guys drafted in the first 30 rounds last year we signed 25, but of course that was after the full signing time was over.
In 2008 we signed 29 of the 30 guys drafted in the first 30 rounds.
2007 we signed 27 of our first 32 draft picks.
it should be lower this year
due to the high number of high schoolers, unless of course, we go over slot a lot.
13 of the 39 picks signed from the first 30 rounds
and June isn’t even over yet. They seem to be doing quite well.
Mostly JuCo and College Kids after the 3rd round though
Jays haven’t even gotten around to the high school kids yet, never mind the tougher signs.
It would really be awesome if we could somehow get Bryant to sign….
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
it would make this class even better
i really hope they at least pitch him the $ he wants
dont want to see a situation of us being too cheap to sign him
Really doubt money would be the reason we don’t sign him. The Jays took a flyer on him with one of their late picks knowing he probably isn’t signable, but if there is any indication that he might be I’m sure they’d pony up the cash.
Bryant on what he'll do
In this article on Vegas area draft picks, here’s a bit on Bryant:
Entering the draft, the highest-profile local high school senior was Bonanza infielder Kris Bryant, who played shortstop for the Bengals but projects as a third baseman at the next level.
Bryant, who has signed with the University of San Diego, was ranked the No. 29 overall prospect by ESPN.com, No. 33 by Rivals.com and No. 53 by Baseball America.
He wound up sliding to the 18th round to the Toronto Blue Jays, who chose him at No. 546 overall.
Bryant wasn’t surprised by where he was taken because teams were aware how strong his college commitment is. He carried a weighted 4.78 grade-point average as a senior.
“I think I would have (gone higher), but it’s the whole ‘signability’ thing,” Bryant said. “The commitment to USD is strong. I think that scared away some teams.”
The 6-5 Bryant hit 22 home runs as a senior, the third most in state history. He batted .469 and drove in 51 runs on his way to Nevada Player of the Year honors from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Gatorade.
“Going into the draft I knew I was in a win-win situation,” Bryant said. “I pretty much knew I was going to get drafted somewhere, but I didn’t care where I went. No stress for me.”
With his strong grade point average and what he has to say about the draft, sounds to me like a kid who’s planning on going to university…
Interesting
Maybe we will get lucky and he would rather take the 2-3 million and use the money wisely; after all, he is smart. Just think what kind of investments he could make with a few million.
I guess it depends what kind of education he wants.
Would he be offered 2-3M? Seems like an awfully big chunk of the draft budget. That aside, 4.78GPA or no I’d find it difficult to turn down that sort of money. I mean geez, just set aside 100K to cover tuition if your baseball career doesn’t pan out… you can always go to school later.
Teams offering to pay for college if a player’s career doesn’t pan out is actually pretty standard with most front offices.
Good story
Concerned a little about the comments about his bat, but we’ll see I guess.
"Don't tell me it's impossible. Be honest and tell me you can't do it. Tell me you don't know how."
Anybody who’s drafted in the 33rd round is bound to have a few holes in their game. The real question is whether the holes are fixable. The Jays are hoping they are.
He’s a raw HS kid who wasn’t a top prospect. I think the plan is to sign a bunch of those types and hope you get one guy who develops into something.
Sounds like we might have got a little steal here with Monroe Garcia – not in terms of money, but grabbing a good kid late. If we’re paying something like first-eight-rounds money, then presumably his talent is a lot better than a 33rd rounder.
And with that, Garcia decided to take the money and run – enough to pay for college later or maybe the Jays agreed to pay that too should his pro career not pan out. That got me wondering, do failed pro players who then go to college ever get scholarships and/or play on their college teams?
Let’s say a player signs out of high school at 18, toils in the minors until his mid-20s for sake of argument. I’d think that even if his minor league career flamed out, at that age he’d probably still have enough talent to play college ball. Just wondering.
I’d think that even if his minor league career flamed out, at that age he’d probably still have enough talent to play college ball. Just wondering.
No doubt he’d have the talent, but he’d be unable to do so under the current NCAA rules. Once you are professional, you cannot play college ball. That’s why in hockey, Canadian kids have to choose between playing Junior A and Major Junior. In Major Junior, the kids get a small stipend, which makes them professionals in NCAA eyes. Junior A kids don’t get anything, so they can play NCAA games, and which is why some kids choose this route.
Do the rules say you can play a different sport NCAA than you played professionally?
I feel like I remember someone (Chris Weinke?) not making MLB and then going back to play College Football (and I think he actually won the Heismann trophy if I remember correctly)
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
Yup, though a pro athlete can’t later play that same sport in college, looks like they can play another sport. And you nailed it with Chris Weinke. According to his Wiki page, he played six years of pro baseball with the Jays, making it as far as AAA and the Syracuse Chiefs (actually hit over .300 in 113 games there one year), before going back to college and playing football, before going on to the NFL. Too bad he never got called up to the Jays, then he’d have been able to say he’d played in both the MLB and NFL.
For anyone interested. The Blue Jays site also has a list here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/team/draft.jsp?c_id=tor
That being said it isn’t as up to date as this one because it only reports on things that have been made official by the press release and not the local papers as TtD has been doing a wonderful job recapping.
Life as a Toronto Sports Fan?... *sigh*... It is what it is...
JonJones
In Sieling’s article (MLB Bonus Baby) grading the Jays’ draft, he lists Jonathan Jones as signed. I don’t know his sources.
Added a couple more who have shown up on the GCL team
Also have a few more UDFA I could add given time.
UDFAs; any others?
It’s been awhile since this list has been updated. I noticed Casey Lawrence was an UDFA. You mentioned there were others? Have there been any more signings also?
List I have so far
Casey Lawrence, Drew Elliott, Jesse Hernandez, Chris Enourato, Matthew Johnson, Bryan Longpre, Michael Kelly
I’m sure there have been more but it’s tricky to keep track of, and for some all I have is names.
Signings have pretty much dried up it seems.
AA figured our no.1 McGuire would wait until the August deadline to see how the market shakes out, so I guess similar logic holds for our two unsigned number two picks.
But then we’ve got a big hole with no one signed from rounds 4 through 13! Same story even for these rounds, guys waiting towards the deadline?
Looking at our board, seems like you get a lot of signings from rounds 30 to 50 and many from 15-30 in the early weeks. How does this all compare to other teams and past Jays’ drafts?
Shane Opitz also signed in the past few days
Little behind catching up but will update with links later.
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Recommended FanPosts
Recent FanPosts
Baseball Nation Recent Stories
In Association With
Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
- The Citi Field All-Star game has finally been made official for 2013
- Brett Lawrie receives four-game suspension, fined for ‘aggressive actions’ toward umpire
- PNC Park security guard loses finger in struggle with fan during Pirates game
- Create-a-Caption: Partying like it’s 1988
- The Ron Washington puppet is watching you while you sleep — and has possibly jinxed the Rangers
