OK, it has been reported by Guardians Prospective that tomorrow all 21 of Cleveland's draft picks will be in Goodyear to sign their contracts.
Any time you can sign all of your draft picks that is a good thing. The Guardians are, in my opinion, geniuses at drafting guys who can fit within or below the draft bonus slots and still be able to sign quality draftees to overslot bonuses. As always, it will be interesting to see how the jigsaw puzzle of available bonus pool dollars and draftees' bonus expectations will fit together. I imagine that, looking at the draftees, we can expect our 3rd-7th and 9th round picks taking bonuses below the slot for their draft position. We might see slightly over slot bonuses for our 11th and 19th round selections and significantly overslot bonuses for our 8th and 10th round selections. All the rest of our picks I can see coming in at or slightly below what was expected with DeLauter and Campbell being lower and Messick and the rest of the picks being at slot value, with the exception of our 15th and 17th round picks who appear to be college seniors. we might have saved money there to apply towards signing a couple of undrafted free agents.
So, while I totally disagree with the premise of the players drafted in this draft, I applaud the Guardians for getting all these guys signed.
The next question is will any of these guys actually play this year?
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