For the 16-17 signing period I have them with 56 signing and bonuses for 15 guys bringing them to $215,800 for the remaining 41 players. Now they didn't trade for any money, their biggest bonus was $900,000, and the whole thing was a complete disaster, but they technically gave out money.
It sounds like the Jays taking most of Straw's contracts off of Cleveland's hands - and possibly the Guardians also just not being able to afford to spend their full international - is the main component of the deal, PTBNL might not be anything special. Though Cleveland did retain some of Straw's salary, so maybe that's what buys them a prospect.
MLB Trade Rumors reporting that Sasaki decided on the Dodgers
Well, The Athletic is who reported it (haha or rather, they noticed it on his Instagram first).
Guess Toronto was just taking its shot. Maybe they'll do something else with it now.
Kind of funny, after all that. Dog bites man.
Phillies traded the Dodgers allocation for minor league OF Dylan Campbell
Pretty ho-hum, not a top 30 guy it seems.Hope that's not all they're doing with $2.5M.
Estimated the Phillies traded between 750k and 1 million in allocation for Campbell
Dumb question - but do Phillies basically lose this cap space?
While not exciting, ~$750k for a 22 year old 4th round pick from 2023, 21 doubles 11 homers , 41 steals, decent walks not a ton of k’s- some promise. Former running back.
https://youtu.be/9BkyD6--KfM
Yes, they sold it.
I can't believe the Phillies have indirectly traded Sasaki for Dylan Campbell
Sasaki was never coming to the Phillies. I don’t know what we would have to do to get in the Japanese Market, but it hasn’t been done yet.
I guess the only way would be to sign a player as a Major League FA and have him become great.
A 31-50 older prospect is still probably worth more than most 17 year-olds, even if the latter have higher ceilings. What's the worst possible outcome for Campell, that he's no better than Ortiz or Garcia or Muzziotti?
One more signee posted on the milb.com transactions page: LHP David Hernandez, 17-year-old from Mexico.
He is young for his college class too (July birthday). While his football was mainly in HS, there is a chance he is still catching up a bit. Used to play more infield so if he could add 2B/3B to the mix he might be a decent utility prospect.
Every signing period you should feel like you are at least coming away with a talent equivalent to a second round pick. A hand full of teams come away with a first round pick kind of talent. The Phils have peaked out at third round type guys the last 2 years.
I guess I can't be too surprised or disappointed by that because all of these kids were already under informal deals long before the Phillies hired Chung (just over a year ago), so it's same as it ever was. It will be another couple of years before the entire scouting apparatus feels like his, same as with Mattingly (who was hired in 2021) since changing an entire development culture takes time too.
Whereas a director of domestic scouting should be able too walk right and run a pretty good draft (though obviously that was not the case for several past Phillies guys either).
And he was basically full season of ABs in high A last season. A .703 OPS isn't great, but he has speed and a lot of positional flexibility, and this was his first real taste of pro ball, since not many ABs in his draft year. He'll be at Reading this year at age 22. It'll be what you see is what you get, because at 5'11" and 205# he is fully developed, physically. He seems like good value for the international money we traded. I doubt we could do better spending that part of our allocation. He's a guy who seems to have a reasonable chance of being a bench guy on the Phillies in 2026.
.703 OPS and 41 steals would be very acceptable. I would also presume by that number of steals that he has plus-plus speed which hopefully can translate to above average OF play. (Agreed an assumption)
