Joey Schoenfeld Signs

by Brakeman8 on Aug 13, 2009 1:12 AM EDT Comment 18 comments

The Post-Gazette reports that the Pirates have signed 10th-round pick Joey Schoenfeld. Pittsburgh now has their top 12 picks from the draft signed and 13 of their top 14. The Pirates have signed 22 draft picks overall. Baseball America reports that Schoenfeld signed for $195,000.

Although there are still some upside guys left unsigned, at this point I think you have to say that the Pirates' draft plan has worked fairly well. Outfielder Matt Den Dekker and pitcher Josh Urban would be really good guys to get nailed down to make this a very good overall draft class.

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He was clearly the best player yet to sign in the draft, and IMO this draft class is officially a success on paper now. Big upside with the bat. He dealt with some injuries in high school, so I wouldn’t put too much into numbers there.

by Gorkys n' Beans on Aug 13, 2009 2:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Glad to see another catcher sign.

We could really use the depth there.

P-G says we’re a hair over $8M for total bonuses, so we may not be done signing yet, either.

by Vlad on Aug 13, 2009 9:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That seems like enough money to get a couple more players.

My wish list at this point is Den Dekker and one of Heller/Cooper. They’re all going to be tough though.

by Slick1 on Aug 13, 2009 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Inman, den Dekker, Urban, Heller, Dermody and Cooper are really the only players I’m still interested in. I think they can get deals done with at least two of them, three and above would be fantastic.

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by Nate Rose on Aug 14, 2009 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Those guys are all good...

…but there are hardly any players on our draft board where I’d be disappointed to hear that they’d signed.

by Vlad on Aug 14, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

si.com

has an interesting article on terrible, terrible contracts currently on teams’ books
when you think about the potential the bucs have for $8 mil, even if every single guy fails, it still doesn’t stack up to how much money is wasted on mediocre, aging or outlier talent bought in a peak year or flatout stupidly paid for.

Or to put it another way, this great, inspiring rebuild the farm, draft still was cheaper than the cost of acquiring…

Matt Morris

by vherub on Aug 13, 2009 3:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Or...

Derek Bell
or
Pat Meares
or
Kevin Young
and about the same as
Sean Casey…

by IAPiratesFan on Aug 13, 2009 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How about...

Joe Randa
and
Raul Mondesi

by ravidesai1984 on Aug 13, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pat Mears

That’s the one guy I never understood. I mean all the other bums Littlefield signed had at least one All Star worthy season. He never hit well and from what I can tell or remember, he wasn’t that great a fielder. I know he got injured when we first got him. What was Littlefield’s rational for signing him, if any ?

"Baseball is better than football. Think about it, eighty degrees, a cold beer and a short-sleeve shirt is better than 30 degrees, a hip flask and six layers of clothes under a lap blanket. Take your pick: suntan or frostbite. " - Thomas Boswell

by Ketcham Bruce on Aug 13, 2009 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

he was someone

DL could build around! ;-)

by BurgherKing on Aug 13, 2009 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Think that was a Bonifay extension.

Not that blaming DL is ever a bad gut-level response.

by Vlad on Aug 13, 2009 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, Bonifay signed him for one year at about $1M or $1.5M, as there wasn’t much market for him. Then he had a pretty good spring so Bonifay signed him to a 4-yr, $15M extension just a month or two after signing him for a tenth of that.

by WTM on Aug 13, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs