The Future Helena and Arizona Brewers -- 30th round 3B/OF Dedrick Signs

[Bambis Bombers]

The Brewers score the Stosh

 

According to this article on the Toronto Sun website, the Milwaukee Brewers have signed 16th round draft pick Stosh Wawrzasek.

 

Signings

Right-hander Brad Furdal, an 11th-round selection in the June draft has signed with the Tampa Bay Rays. Furdal pitched this season for the Inter County Terriers and the National Canadian Junior Team. The Milwaukee Brewers signed 16th-round pick Stosh Wawrzasek, of Langley, B.C. yesterday. When Wawrzasek was in for a pre-draft work out, Brewers scouting director Jack Zduriencik showed his name tag to the high schooler and said "You and me."

[battlekow]

49th-rounder Dan Meadows signed (a week ago--whoops).

 

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[Bambis Bombers]

BA's draft database shows 8th round pick Erik Komatsu as signed

[Tbadder]

Am I right to be a little concerned that we haven't signed Lintz yet? I realize that the first two picks are going to be complicated, and their contracts quite large, but the iron is not so hot now--it just feels like he's (Lintz) gonna bolt. Anyone hear anything at all?

[battlekow]

The whole to-do with Lintz and Haudricourt earlier stemmed from Lintz too eagerly reporting his own signing. Based on that, I would be surprised if he doesn't sign.

[colbyjack]

Lintz on draft day had some peculiar comments, which seemed to cause everyone to question his signability. The Brewers didn't take Lintz where they did if they weren't 99.9% confident they would be able to sign him. Lawrie and even Odorizzi haven't signed yet either, yet no one seems concerned about them signing eventually.

 

I've said this before and I'll say it again, Lintz will be in the system by the end of the month, and there's a better than good chance that Lawrie and Odorizzi will be as well.

[battlekow]

BA's draft database shows 8th round pick Erik Komatsu as signed

He has an MiLB.com page that has him assigned to Helena, so I guess it's true.

 

[battlekow]

Mass Haas wrote:

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I don't see Austin Adams on that Hyannis Mets roster, so far it's just Evan Bronson who I've identified on a roster thus far.

He's still not on the roster, but this article confirms he's on the team:

Hyannis narrowed things with two runs in the second when Curt Casali and Joey Gonzalez crossed the plate on singles from Austin Adams and [stephen] Ashcraft.

[Mass Haas]

Mass Haas wrote:

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I don't see Austin Adams on that Hyannis Mets roster, so far it's just Evan Bronson who I've identified on a roster thus far.

He's still not on the roster, but this article confirms he's on the team:

Hyannis narrowed things with two runs in the second when Curt Casali and Joey Gonzalez crossed the plate on singles from Austin Adams and [stephen] Ashcraft.

But that's a different Austin Adams, an outfielder from TCU.

[Mass Haas]

Link while active, text follows:

 

Odorizzi getting close to signing with Brewers

BY NORM SANDERS

Belleville (IL) News-Democrat

 

Negotiations between Highland High graduate Jake Odorizzi and the Milwaukee Brewers have reached a point where the supplemental first-round pick could be signed as soon as today.

 

Odorizzi, who helped lead Highland to the Class 3A state baseball championship, was the 32nd overall pick in the major league draft.

 

"It's getting close," said Jason Wood of Arland Sports, Odorizzi's advisor. "There's still a few details we've got to work out, but it looks pretty promising. We're already above last year's (contract) number, which is positive for the 32nd overall pick."

 

Wood said the 32nd overall pick last year signed for $915,000.

 

Odorizzi, who finished his senior year with a 14-0 pitching record, was a first-team selection on the Chicago Tribune's All-State Baseball Team.

[filthyfrog]

When the Brewers picked Lintz, I would speculate that they passed on Tim Melville because they thought he was unsignable. Therefore, they must not have had the same concern about Lintz.

 

That said, after seeing Evan Frederickson's line in the link report the other day, I understand why people are itching to see the same from Lintz and Odorizzi and Lawrie.

[battlekow]

Mass Haas wrote:

But that's a different Austin Adams, an outfielder from TCU.

Why do you think that? "Our" Austin Adams confirmed to me that he's on the Hyannis Mets.

 

[Bambis Bombers]

Highland's Odorizzi agrees to terms with Brewers

BY NORM SANDERS

News-Democrat

LINK (while active)

In the past few weeks, Highland High baseball standout Jake Odorizzi has been drafted 32nd overall as a supplemental first-round pick by the Milwaukee Brewers and helped his high school team win a state championship.

On Friday, Odorizzi hit the jackpot once again when he agreed to terms with the Brewers, picking up a signing bonus worth $1,060,000. The signing package also includes an undisclosed amount of money that goes toward his college education.

"The Brewers are an organization committed to the development of their players," Odorizzi said. "They have the necessary processes in place to get the most out of my ability and that is something I am looking forward to. This is where I want to be."

Odorizzi was 14-0 this spring with a 0.08 ERA and 146 strikeouts in 89 2/3 innings. He walked only six batters and allowed only three runs, just one earned, and won his final 25 decisions in high school.

Odorizzi and his parents, Mike and Julie Odorizzi, visited Milwaukee on Friday and were expected to complete the formal signing process at Miller Park before the Brewers' home game against the Baltimore Orioles.

"It's just been a whirlwind, everything's happened so fast," Mike Odorizzi said. "From the beginning of things, even back in October and November when all this first started coming about, it has just gone by so fast.

"Ever since Jake was that small, he's always told us that 'I'm going to play professional baseball someday.' My wife Julie and I would look at each other and say 'Yeah, sure you are."'

Turns out the youngster was telling the truth.

Once he signs, Odorizzi will report July 1 to the Brewers' spring training facility in Maryvale, Ariz. From there, he will be assigned to one of the Brewer' minor-league affiliates, likely one in Montana.

Odorizzi was the Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year, a Louisville Slugger Preseason All-American, a Rawlings/Perfect Game All-American and a member of USA Today's All-USA Team.

For more on this story, see Saturday's News-Democrat or visit: www.bnd.com.

[Mass Haas]

6/20 Jim Powell & Jake Odorizzi, Brewers recently-signed pitcher from the 2008 First-Year Player Draft

[Never Outhustled]

Am I right to be a little concerned that we haven't signed Lintz yet? I realize that the first two picks are going to be complicated, and their contracts quite large, but the iron is not so hot now--it just feels like he's (Lintz) gonna bolt. Anyone hear anything at all?

 

If Lintz did indead sign for $900,000, as he reported, then I have a pretty good idea what the hold up is, its the commisioners office. Thats enough above slot value that the commisioners office will get invloved and try to talk ownership out of the deal. They won't approve the contract for weeks.

[Tbadder]

X Man: is this typical? I mean for the comissioner's office. If it is, it just seems to me that they should see the reality of the situation and have a double scale--one for college players and one for high schoolers.

[Mass Haas]

The Brewers have announced they've signed 46th round 19-year-old high school SS Carlos George of the Bronx, and 48th round RHP Marcus Salmon, a 20-year-old out of Miami Dade Junior College. Expect to see both in Maryvale this summer.

Brewers Site -- Updated

[battlekow]

Odorizzi's signing bonus was $1.06M, "plus money for college."

 

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[colbyjack]

I haven't been shy to say that I think Odorizzi could very well be the best player from this draft, and I say that as a big, big fan of the Lawrie selection. It's so exciting to see so many players sign quickly.

 

This is really the MO of the Brewers' scouting dep't. under Jack Z. They've already signed 30 of their 54 draftees (including 25 of their top 30 overall selections), quite simply an astonishing total, and you know that Lawrie and Lintz are going to be in the mix as well (hopefully sooner rather than later).

 

This is a well-oiled machine we're watching doing it's thing, and it's incredibly exciting being a fan of a team that knows how to build from the bottom up.

[battlekow]

They've already signed 30 of their 54 draftees

Plus Wooten and Luetge, as soon as the CWS is over.

 

[Mass Haas]

Even 49th round draft picks can't escape from battlekow's interview fiesta.

 

Entertaining (and informative) as heck, thanks again!

[battlekow]

Haha, thanks MH. I appreciate the continued linkage. As to you question earlier, I pretty much do the interviews however they want, whatever's most convenient for them, but I really try not to do it over email. It just doesn't read like a conversation then.

 

In more important news, Tom H also speculates that Lawrie might not get signed for awhile:

The Brewers are still talking to first-round draft pick Brett Lawrie, a prep catcher from Canada. Timing could work against a deal anytime soon, however.

Should Lawrie sign in the next week, he wouldn't have much time in rookie ball before reporting July 13 to the Canadian national junior team in preparation for the world tournament later in the month in Edmonton. In the meantime, Lawrie plans to play for the Langley Blaze club team to keep sharp.

[Mass Haas]

MLB.com:

 

Energizer bunny: North Carolina has played four games so far in the College World Series, and reliever Rob Wooten has pitched in all of them. Call it tradition.

In the 2007 College World Series, Wooten pitched in the Tar Heels' first five games in Omaha, and in total, six of their seven games. In doing so, he tied the College World Series record for most appearances. His appearance on Saturday, in which he threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings, was his 10th in Omaha.

Wooten, a 13th-round pick in the June Draft to the Milwaukee Brewers, led the Tar Heels with five saves this season, en route to a 1.77 ERA. The sidearmer appeared in 42 games for North Carolina, after appearing in 47 games in the 2007 season.

[battlekow]

A http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=bcbf64d1-3a70-4b69-9a95-371bb9cac763'>short article on Brett Lawrie, but featuring a very GQ photo:

"I remember when Brett was really young, like three years old," says Russ Lawrie in the days leading up to Brett's selection earlier this month at No. 16 overall by the Milwaukee Brewers.

"We'd go camping in the summer and if you ever wanted to know where Brett was, he'd be down at the beach with a badminton racquet hitting rocks.

"And he didn't just hit them for 10 minutes. An hour-and-a-half later, he'd still be there trying to hit them further and further."

One day, an old-timer approached the dad.

"He said, 'I watch this kid hitting rocks every day and I can tell you this, one day that kid is going to do something really big.'"

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/idl/vapr/20080622/148118-50173.jpg

 

 

[splitterpfj]

I hope people realize how special it is for the Brewers to have a group that not only drafts great talent, but also chooses guys who sign quickly.

 

All signs point to Lawrie, Lintz and Wooten signing, which leaves Blake Billings, Round 19, as the first guy on the list who may not join the organization. The team chose 29 players in the first 25 rounds, and the worst they'll come out with is 27 of them signed - plus several more signees from the later rounds.

 

This draft has the potential to be a real difference maker for the Brewers, getting so many of these guys started so soon will likely get the first of them to Milwaukee one season earlier.