Final 2008 Draft Signee List

According to Baseball America, these are all of the 2008 signees:

1. Lonnie Chisenhall
2. Trey Haley
3. Cord Phelps
4. David Roberts
5. Zach Putnam
6. Jeremie Tice
7. Tim Fedroff
8. Eric Berger
9. Clayton Cook
10. Donnie Webb
11. Matt Langwell
12. Guido Fonseca
13. Adam Abraham
14. Carlos Moncrief
15. Jason Rodriguez
16. TJ House
18. Kaili Mead
19. Nate Reckangel
20. Marty popham
21. Ryan Blair
22. Bryce Stowell
24. Kevin Fontanez
25. Steve Smith
26. Moises Montero
28. Russell Young
32. Roberto Perez
38. Brian Grening
39. Eddie Burns
40. Tim Palinscar
43. Mike McGuire

Among the late signees previously noted on LGT were Haley, Putnam, Fedroff, House, and Stowell.

I don't think Rodriguez, Reckangel, Perez, Burns, or Palinscar were mentioned elsewhere on LGT.

We ended up with 30 of the 50 signed.

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Gooooo Nate Rectangle!

by Toxicadam on Aug 19, 2008 3:37 PM EDT reply actions

Is he related to Sponge Bob?

by peter m on Aug 19, 2008 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions

BA reports that the Indians spent $4,662,000 to sign their round 1-10 picks, ranking us 16th. The Royals spent the most, $10,165,000. These figures don’t include the big bucks spent on later picks, however, such as the $750,000 the Indians used to sign T.J. House (round 16) and the $725,000 invested in Bryce Stowell (round 22). Jim Callis, by the way, lists those two guys among the “biggest coups” in rounds 11-50.

by ken from alexandria on Aug 19, 2008 6:00 PM EDT reply actions

Those other guys weren’t mentioned because they’re irrelevant. You’ll rarely see any draft pick discussed who isn’t either (a) drafted in the first five or six rounds, or (b) talented enough to be drafted in the first three or four rounds but dropped for signability reasons, or © had previously been drafted in the first three or four rounds and opted to go to (or return to) college instead of signing.

These lower-round guys who sign for slot, they’re just filler for the rookie league rosters.

by Jay on Aug 20, 2008 6:44 PM EDT reply actions

Interesting.

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by Jay on Aug 20, 2008 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions

You just have to put a damper on things don’t you ;)

I don’t care that they were mentioned or not, I just thought it was odd that on the last day of signing we signed the other guys as well, but they weren’t even mentioned as a footnote. May be the only chance some of these guys get any publicity, why break their hearts? ;)

Was just trying to be thorough Jay.

by talonk on Aug 20, 2008 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Are you sure we signed them on the last day?

If you want to be thorough, tell me about how Never-Gonna-Make-It-Rod is doing in Mahoning Valley.

by Jay on Aug 20, 2008 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions

No I am not sure that they did in fact sign the last day. But they were updated to the Baseball America link above at the same time as Haley, Putnam, and Stowell.

Maybe Baseball America was just slow in updating the page, but I don’t think they signed back in June either.

by talonk on Aug 21, 2008 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions

You’re really aware of what day each update to that list was made?

That, my friend, is just a sickness. Go spend some time digging up info on our Dominican signings. Nobody should know anything about the 40th round of the draft.

by Jay on Aug 21, 2008 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions