SUNDAY, 6:31pm: Lindsey's bonus is worth $873K, according to Jim Callis of Baseball America. The shortstop's bonus matches MLB's estimated recommendation for the No. 37 slot in 2009.
MONDAY, 9:02pm: The Angels have agreed to terms with three of their top seven picks from the June Amateur Draft. Mike DiGiovanna of the L.A. Times reports that supplemental pick Taylor Lindsey (the 37th overall selection) and third-rounder Wendell Soto (111th overall) agreed to deals with the club. Mark Saxon of ESPNLosAngeles.com also broke the news that another supplemental round pick, 40th overall selection Ryan Bolden, had signed.
No terms were announced, though DiGiovanna believes that Lindsey and Bolden received bonuses worth roughly $800K, or the standard amount for sandwich-round picks. Bolden gets an $830K bonus, according to Jim Callis of Baseball America.
All three players are high-schoolers. Scottsdale native Lindsey was drafted as a shortstop but "will probably" move to second or third base (as Angels scouting director Eddie Bane told Lyle Spencer of MLB.com). Bolden is a Mississippi outfielder who Saxon notes (via Twitter) has been "compared to Rickey Henderson." Baseball America wasn't nearly as high on Bolden's potential, rating him as the 141st prospect overall in their pre-draft top 200 ranking. Neither Lindsey or Soto, a switch-hitting shortstop from Florida, made Baseball America's ranking at all.
Saxon heard from LAA general manager Tony Reagins that the Halos have signed "more than 20" other draft picks, though negotiations with third baseman Kaleb Cowart (18th overall) have been "complicated." As Saxon notes, Cowart has signed a letter of intent to attend Florida State and was rumored to be looking for a $3MM contract offer to begin his professional career. Reagins is "still optimistic something gets done" with Cowart.
Either way. If we get a make up pick next year it will be fine.
Except that pick isn’t protected, so if the Angels get that pick, then they player drafted with it will have more leverage.
Either way. If we get a make up pick next year it will be fine.
Taylor Lindsay, with a name like that he must have gotten a lot of abuse in school.
Taylor Lindsay, with a name like that he must have gotten a lot of abuse in school.
ryan bolden is the next star he is very immature only 18 and in the first round lots of potential anything through the gap is a triple but the problem is he is not a power hitter and tries to swing for the fences once he gets that in cheeck him and taylor lindsey will make it to the majors
830 k for bolden get out of the projects.