NH apparently said on the radio a few days ago that he didn’t expect Grossman to sign.

The system is almost devoid of pitching. I looked over the State College roster, which was posted today, and the pitching staff is pretty much prospect-free, which completes the class A trifecta of pitching garbage for the Bucs’ system. They desperately need to sign at least two out of Scheppers, Gagnon and Quinton Miller.

I can’t imagine they went into the draft expecting to sign most of the guys they drafted from round 33 on (13 of 18)-typically a team would sign just a handful of those guys, if even that-so I’m holding out hope that somewhere along the line they decided to sign more guys than they originally planned.

Of the guys they drafted who figure to get above slot (as far as I can tell), these are wild guesses about what it’d take:

Alvarez—God only knows.

Scheppers—Without the injury, he figured to go #5-10, which is about $2M or a bit less. The injury should depress his value, even if he went back to college next year and had a big year. Seems like $1.5M would be the high end for him.

Grossman—He seems to be determined to go to college, but in case he’s not, BA had him possibly going at the end of round 1 or in the supp. 1st round. Slot money there would range from about $500K to a little over $1M.

Gagnon—He said he wouldn’t sign unless he went in the 5th round or higher. Early 5th round is about $150K, so he may be looking for a little more than that.

Seth Gardner—I know little about this guy except that his prospective college coach says he won’t sign. He looks like a guy you might pay $100K to, maybe.

Freeman—I have no clue. The decision to sign him supposedly will turn partly on how he does in summer league play. Maybe it’d take something like 3rd round money, $300-400K.

Miller—BA rated him 158th overall, which would be about the 5th round, but he apparently has a strong commitment to North Carolina. Seems like the high end for him would be something like 2nd round money ($400-500K), but 3rd round ($300-400K) might be more realistic.

Austin Wright—23rd round HS LHP who dropped due to a bad senior year. BA said he’d be easy to sign, but maybe not. I wouldn’t think he’d get early round money, but he’d probably get something well above 23rd round money, which is basically nothing. Maybe he’s just decided to go to college and try to bounce back.

Litwin—I have no idea. Since they’ve signed a couple hundred thirdbasemen, he’s probably not high on the priority list. I don’t get the sense he’s a huge prospect.

Zach Wilson—Based on BA’s ranking (140th overall), he should get something like 4th/5th round money, which would be maybe $150-250K. But he’s a Boras client, so he’s going to want seven figures. Probably the least likely of anybody to sign.

Komstadius—He supposedly wants $200K, so you’d think they could sign him for a bit less.

Some interesting guys who aren’t big above-slot candidates but whom I’d like to see them sign:

Jason Haniger—Wieters’ replacement at Georgia Tech, had breakout year when he got the regular C job.

Brent Klinger—JC pitcher who throws pretty hard and had good K rates.

Ryan Hinson—Clemson LHP with good size who was a very solid starter for two years and had weak junior season.