SATURDAY, 8:00pm: The signing is official, writes David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
3:33pm: The Braves have announced that they’ve agreed to terms with Anderson. Heyman tweets that Anderson will receive exactly $4MM.
MONDAY: The Braves and No. 3 overall draft pick Ian Anderson are finalizing a deal that’ll pay the high school right-hander about $4MM, reports FanRag’s Jon Heyman (links to Twitter). Heyman adds that Anderson will not officially sign until he has graduated. That bonus represents a savings of about $2.5MM on his slot value of $6,510,800 (via MLB.com’s Jim Callis) — money that will help the Braves afford later picks such as Joey Wentz, Kyle Muller and Drew Harrington — each of whom has already reportedly agreed to an over-slot deal.
Anderson, who just turned 18 last month, was rated most highly entering the draft by ESPN’s Keith Law (No. 7 overall), but Baseball America (No. 12) and MLB.com (No. 13) each had him as a top-half-of-the-first-round talent as well. Shortly before the draft, rumors surfaced indicating that Atlanta may tab Anderson in order to save some funds which would be allocated tough signs, and that indeed is how their draft played out.
Scouting reports on Anderson from the three outlets above praise his fastball that sits in the low 90s but can reach 95-96 mph, and BA calls his changeup “devastating” while giving him credit for an above-average curve as well. At 6’4″ and 180 pounds, there’s certainly reason to think that Anderson can continue to fill out his frame. Anderson’s stock might’ve been higher this season if he hadn’t been slowed by an oblique injury and a bout of pneumonia. Ultimately, his deal will allow the Braves to add four high-upside arms to their ranks. While three of them (Anderson, Wentz and Muller) will be a ways off because they are of the high school variety, landing three arms that both BA and MLB.com rated within the top 25 draft prospects seems like a strong haul that should only further bolster an impressive Braves farm system.
The Braves were $2,584,700 over-slot on the combination of Wentz, Muller and Harrington, so the savings from Anderson alone appear to be enough to ensure that Atlanta avoids the loss of a future first-round pick. That wouldn’t happen until the Braves exceeded their bonus pool by more than five percent, although Atlanta will pay a 75 percent luxury tax on any overages up to five percent. That, however, hasn’t been a deterrent for teams in the past and should be of fairly marginal consequence to the Braves should they be required to do so this year.
He also plays a mean flute…….
For some reason this joke hasn’t gotten old. That wasn’t sarcasm either. I hope they make it his walk-up music if he reaches the majors.
Thought I read the ‘meat flute’….
Teheran for Moncada
Markakis for Trout.
Finally! A reasonable trade 😀
Haha I couldn’t help myself.
To ATL: RHP Ubaldo Jimenez
To BAL: OF Nick Markakis
Swap of bad contracts, both these guys need a fresh start
Ubaldo is garbage. Markakis isn’t as bad as he’s put out to be
I don’t know why ATL would do that.
They would take Ubaldo and eat the last year of his contract if BAL added a good prospect. Or trade Markakis and his contract for some minor league filler.
Also, what better place to get a fresh start than where you spent the first 9 years of your career?
I had thought this morning Markakis and Fried for Kemp and Norris.
The Braves won’t want an older player locked up through 2019
They wouldn’t and every body tell me I put bad trade out there and the only was Boston gets tehran is if they over pay and blow Atlanta Braves away and that goes to any team my trade with Braves , Pittsburgh , Cleveland , rockies works if you all get over your self
Seriously, just a little effort on grammar would be awesome.
Lmao
That’s what I keep saying… Slow down and type a word at a time.
Chief, you know I like to pose them here and there too. I don’t even mind the 30 player included trades, but do not want a headache trying to read it.
One word at a time is busch league. Accuracy is worthless without speed.
Let’s add to these trade rumors: Strasburg, Scherzer and Harper for Olivera. High upside, high risk.
Stop deleting my post . It’s ok if people make commits but I’m not aloud to reply to them . If this web site like to be communist site I though this was A free society
Under which screen name got deleted; Chris or cjs?
You figured it out. Your posts are being deleted as part of the Steve Adams Communist agenda, not because the proposals are illegible and asinine
Yes, some of the first things Marx and Engels wrote about was internet comments and the rights of the proletariat to not be subjected to absurd baseball trade proposals. I think many of your comments might be deleted because they are really hard to read. That thing with all the lettered pitchers with their career stats is like reading hieroglyphics. Nobody wants to go through all that, especially to reach a really faulty conclusion. I’m glad you have this hobby and spend lots of work on it, but in general people will read and respond positively to comments when they are concise, well thought out, and use the basic rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation.
I’d have gone with bourgeoisie, but yea, some formatting would help with his stat dumps.
Can’t complain. Loading up on high school pitchers makes me twitchy but it’s not like I know a thing about any of these kids. Hope they all make the most of their careers!
What more does Julio gotta do to get respect in the sabermetric world ? 8 shutout innings vs the Mets today and a complete game shutout earlier in the week.
His fastball was also at 93 all day, even touched 94 a few times..just to shoot the, he doesn’t throw hard enough comments down..
Maddux rarely touched anything more than that on his fastball and he did just fine. Not comparing Teheran to Maddux, but it’s not how hard you throw the fastball, but the movement, location and timing of it that makes it an effective pitch. I’d much rather have a pitcher that can locate their fastball at 2 MPH less than someone throwing it at 97 mph with no movement and not hitting the zone.
I absolutely agree..
Everyone says they’d give up their mother, their first-born, and their virgin bride for Chris Sale, yet Teheran is having just as good of a season, if not better. Sale has 10 more K’s in 7 more IPs, while having 2 less BBs. Sure, Sale is 12-2, while Teheran is 3-7, but that just shows the offenses. I only mention it because it seems like Sale’s name keeps being connected to Teheran thinking that CWS should suddenly sell-high on Sale on throw in the towel, while ATL should somehow not get an ace-like return for someone putting up ace numbers in front of a very bad offense. Coming from someone that traveled to see Teheran pitch in PHI for his debut, he is throwing his best stuff in his career right now.
Teheran is a good pitcher, but nobody is picking him over sale
I know fans tend to overvalue their own teams players, but I’d bet there is a team or two that would value Teheran over Sale based on the fact that he’s A.) 2 years younger with 250 less innings on his arm and B.) owed a bit over 37 mil over the next 4 seasons compared to Sale’s 38 mil over the next 3 years.
Why do you make a rebuttal statement to DMC that was not his point at all? Nobody is saying Teheran should be picked over Chris Sale right now, though Chopping does have some good points. There are some very interesting points of comparison, though, and the value gap between Sale and Teheran is not that large.
Wow the Julio haters are nowhere to be found. And he is what 2 yrs younger than Sale too.
My favorite are the ones who treat Arrieta as if he is the 2nd coming of Christ yet how long did it take him to figure it out ? But Julio can’t be figuring it out he is just lucky because Bill James equations says he is lol.
Completely agree. I’m a big fan of sabremetrics. I reference them all the time. When people look at Teheran, they always Tao his FIP stat. They say how he can’t sustain his production when his ERA is lower than his FIP but this is the fourth year in a row (yes, even his less than stellar 2015 he outperformed his FIP) he has done this.
When an individual player breaks a metric year after year you have to at some point come to the conclusion that that metric does not measure that player well.
What kind of high school doesn’t graduate their kids until the end of June? Schools are done mid to late May. Maybe it is different in NY.
Yeah it is different up here in the northeast. I am in Jersey and school let out this past week.
Google translate is failing you bro.
Whenever I see moves like this, it reminds me why I would never make it as any type of decision maker in MLB.