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Inbox: Will the top Draft pick receive less money than last year?
- Updated: May 19, 2016
Three weeks from Thursday, the Philadelphia Phillies will make the first selection of the 2016 Draft. Who they will take remains up in the air.
In my mock Draft last week, I had them taking a college hitter, Kyle Lewis. Jim Callis has a new one coming Friday.
As the clock is ticking on the start of another Draft, I’m keeping this week’s Inbox all Draft-related.
@JonathanMayo @MLBPipeline @MLBDraft What is the likelihood that 1.1 gets less $ than Swanson got last year?
— Hank Rearden (@HankRearden1) May 18, 2016
@JonathanMayo @MLBPipeline @MLBDraft What is the likelihood that 1.1 gets less $ than Swanson got last year?
Last year, Dansby Swanson signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks for $6.5 million. That was more than $2 million less than the pick value assigned for the No. 1 overall selection ($8,616,900). This year, the top pick has been given a value of $9.015 million. One thing is absolutely certain: Whoever the Phillies settle on at 1-1 will not be getting full pick value.
• 2016 MLB Draft: June 9-11 on MLB Network, MLB.com
Whether or not that draftee gets more or less than Swanson remains to be seen. It doesn’t seem like there’s anyone in this class who is better than Swanson based on talent, though that’s not the only deciding factor. Of the players being mentioned as potential top pick candidates, Florida’s A.J. Puk seems like the one who might get close to that $6.5 million mark. Nick Senzel, the Tennessee third baseman who is advised by Scott Boras, could also potentially approach that, but with Swanson being thought of as a better player than Senzel, that could be a stretch.
The other candidates being mentioned, it seems, would be offered less by the Phillies. So if I had to guess, this year’s No. 1 pick will get less than Swanson, with the Phils using the saved money to be aggressive with their second pick, No. 42 overall.
• Top 100 Draft Prospects list
@JonathanMayo Consensus seems to be Blake …
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