2023 Draft Signing Period

A reminder that the signing deadline is July 25 at 5pm. I'd bet Kyle Teel and maybe Zanetello and Anderson will be at Fenway for the Mets series July 21-23.

Hope you’re right! As long as 1 of the 3 high schoolers taken today sign I’m good, but Call would obviously be the preference. I’m still skeptical Tucker signs for the reasons I laid out in the Day 3 thread, but would love for him to.

I think the real question here is where does that $450,000 that is guessed here as going to Phoenix Call end up going? Before that pick, my guess (based on nothing other than just being too free to offer my opinions on things I know nothing about) was that Antonio Anderson would get a couple hundred thousand over 2m and then maybe someone(s) in the 11+ rounds get maybe $200,000-250,000 and maybe Justin Reimer randomly costs a little more than that or something - no unexpected signings in other words.

Sure do hope it's a guy named Phoenix who ALSO happens to have an all-time great last name for prospect puns. The gameday threads will write themselves, iakovos11 is salivating.

Call me crazy, but I love some good prospect names you can have fun with.

And as awesome a name Nazzan Zanetello is, that's tough to work with for Gameday threads. Donatello? Shazzam?

I did some looking into the timeline for signings and debuts last year to see if there was anything to notice. Signing bonus information started trickling in during the week following the draft, with official contracts being signed in two bunches: one on the 26th (7 days after the end of the draft) and one on the 29th (10 days after).

The draft class can be broken down into three groups: high school hitters, college pitchers, and Chase Meidroth. Meidroth was the only college hitter that they drafted last year. The college pitchers was the easiest to describe. They drafted 13 of them. Six pitched during the 2022 season and seven didn’t. Some due to injuries and I would guess some due to enough innings already. The pitchers that did make an appearance all got their first innings between August 16th and 20th; about two to three weeks after signing. They all made only two pitching appearances. The top high school hitters (Romero, Coffey, and Anthony) debuted on August 9th-three weeks after the draft. Brannon followed four days later. Brannon and Coffey spent the whole time in Florida, but Romero and Anthony moved up to Salem after three weeks. Meidroth was his own special case. He made it to game action in Florida on August 5th and was playing in Salem on August 9th.

The Red Sox ended up with a little bit of a different group this year. 2022 saw 13 college pitchers, 5 high school hitters, and one college hitter. Their top five rounds went 3 high school hitters, two college pitchers, and one college hitter. This year, the Sox have done 6 college hitters, 4 high school hitters, 11 college pitchers, and 1 high school pitcher. 2023’s top five rounds were three college bats, two high school bats, and two college pitchers.

The interesting thing about this year is that the draft is 8 days earlier than it was last year, while the season still ends the same time. This will give the draftees another week of time this year. For the pitchers that do make an appearance, it won’t mean much. 3 appearances rather than 2, likely. For the hitters, it will have a bigger impact. I would expect the college hitters to get up to Salem quickly. Meidroth got 85 PAs in Salem and barring injury or contract issues, Zeel, Campbell, and Riemer could easily surpass that.

I'll do the research, but could use an assist here. My rap tastes are stuck in the 80's/90's. I've heard of Nelly, but give me some De La Soul or A Tribe Called Quest.

This thread has turned into one of my favorite traditions around here. Love the optimism on Call. So much of this draft is going to come down to what the first 3 picks get, so if a couple of those guys sign we should have a much clearer picture of what the Sox might be able to do with the other HS selections.

Jim Callis the main one, but Carlos Collazo and Jonathan Mayo, too.

That’s one good thing about the Red Sox kids still love the organization. The tradition behind this team still holds. Very very good.



How much fun is it when we can play around with the draft board. I get so sick of the usual 6 teams doing this every friggin year.