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As I understand the international signing rules, unless he is eligible to be signed prior to June 15, 2015, the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays will effectively be prohibited from signing him as a penalty for exceeding the bonus pool this year.  

Presumably any team signing him will blow through the pool limits, but given his age, position and reported skills, I would "all in" on this kid if I were Arte.

Wouldn't we need the bag of oats though?

Heavens yes!  Otherwise the horses get hungry.

Not sure that I care much for this move.  

Congratulations to Cam.

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20141023&content_id=99157914&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb

It's a low risk high reward deal for the Phillies. Good for the Williams family!

Good for Jerome, but it is more like a low risk, low reward signing IMO.

One game suspension for grabbing a player's jersey; two game suspension for misapplying a rule.  Seems about right!

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/47135778/umpiring-crew-disciplined-for-rule-mishap

And kudos to Tyler DeLoach on his debut at Arkansas.  5IP, 2H, 0R.

The Angels are winning, and I don't see any reason why Arte Moreno would not exercise his option to retain DiPoto next year.  But what purpose would be served to "extend" DiPoto's contract now?  At best, DiPoto's record as a player evaluator is mixed.  Seemingly, his sabermetrics convinced him it was ok to essentially give away Santana because Joe Blanton was better (or at least a little bit cheaper).  And while I agree with many of the trades he has made, he has without question "sold the farm" to put together the present team.  A decision about extending DiPoto is better deferred to a later time, IMO.

Well, thats not encouraging.  

Newcomb deal is close to being done.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/07/angels-near-deal-with-first-rounder-sean-newcomb.html

I don't know if it was posted earlier, but it appears that Jared Ruxer (12/359) has signed.  With the TJ surgery, he won't pitch this year, but he looks like a real value pick.

https://twitter.com/RuX40

Does anyone have a report on how Bolaski profiles as a pitcher?  I never heard that he had a great arm when he was playing 3B, so it seems somewhat odd that he would be converted to pitcher unless is he using a knuckleball or something similar.

Interesting . . .

Almost all of this year's college draftees who have signed are on the roster.  And this is the first place I have seen that Ryan Seitz signed (I presume he will play 1st, not 2B)

And, no Hunter Green yet?

Rd #8 Jake Yacinich signed for $150,000, slot at $158,000

With the announced bonuses so far, the Angels are $135,700 below their alotment. 

 

As a reminder, the bonuses from first ten rounds and any bonus for players drafted  in rounds 11-40 that is over $100,000 counts against the alotment.

It looks like these numbers don't include Joe Gatto, who reportedly will sign for around $140,000 over slot.  If true, that would put the Angels around $10,000 over slot.

I take him over Jepsen any day.

LOL

My sense of this board (and no, I don't have data to support my view):

Before the season: The starting pitching is questionable and the bullpen sucks.

Performance to date: Better than league average (depending on which pitching stat you like, somewhere around no. 5 out of 15 in the AL).

Pitching coach: Butcher sucks.

Even with the TJ surgery, Hoffman is likely to reach the majors before the Angel's first selection last year (Hunter Green).  And he would be the best Angel's pitching prospect since Weaver.  IMO, it's a no brainer--take him.

Even 2013 saw only 84 losses.

I'll say one thing, this guy is certainly bold in a lot of his predictions. 

Let me see.  Paul Goldschmidt wins the triple crown, but Bryce Harper is MVP?  Yes, that is bold!

They also spent slot money to acquire Brian Moran.  I would assume they saw the possibility to add guys while using whatever currency was available to them.  If everyone they felt was worth spending money on was gone, they lost nothing.  They got two guys for free basically.

 

There is no denying the Angels screwed themselves after the Daniels situation and only really started to show signs of life last year.   I'd be surprised if they didn't make better use of their currencies this signing season.

The problem is that the Moran deal cost the Angels $600,000 of spendable money against the 2014 allocation.  It appears that the Angels now have the lowest allocation of all 30 teams, so I would not hold my breath on the Angels being big players in the international market this year.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/international-bonus-slot-budgets-for-all-30-teams/

He was released in 2010:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/minor-league-transactions-136/

The Yankees released David Adams to make room for Wells.  Dipoto should put in a claim for him.

Some of us old-timers don't like avatars.

I have a friend that's a GM and would propose something similar to his structure:

 

1.2 million for 150 years.

 

Everyone wins.

LOL.  

Seriously, the time to offer big money is when the Angels are ready to extend him under a long-term contract.  There is NO way the Angels will pay Trout what he is "worth" before he is arbitration eligible.

Makes sense.  I believe Cassevah is out of options.  So he'd have to make the 25 man roster.  Outright him now, before people can figure out if his surgery was a success.  he then goes to AAA.  We can work on him, and can be called up later.  

What surgery?  I know he had a bad shoulder last spring that didn't require surgery, but it didn't stop him from pitching last year.