Draft Deadline Winners and Losers

Winners

Washington Nationals - sign Strasburg to a 4 yr/15 million dollar deal, if they wait until May 5th next year to call him they'll up they would have him for 7 years and pay him about $40 million good work Scott and the Nationals

Diamondbacks - 15 top 10 round picks, all signed

Scott Boras - New records have been set for the largest bonus ($7.5 million by Stephen Strasburg), largest guarantee ($15,107,104 by Strasburg), largest bonus for a high schooler ($6.25 million for Donavan Tate) and largest bonus for a high school pitcher ($4.7 million by Jacob Turner) Scott represents each of those players

CAA - 7 of the top 49 picks, all signed mostly overslot, not bad for a "startup" sports agency, OK it's 3 years and they are holding their own with WMG and SBC

Tigers - as always go overslot like they have on Andrew Miller, Cameron Maybin, Rick Porcello, love the strategy

The big bad bottom three - Pirates-Padres-Nationals locked up most of their picks and spent what they needed to to compete

Losers

Draft system - 12 first rounders go overslot, change is coming in the new CBA

Rangers - failed to sign first round and supp first pick, lack of cash flow or poor draft management?

Blue Jays - failed to sign supp first, 2nd and 3rd round pick, this is not how you catch the Yankees and Sox, pretty sad considering 2 of those guys were Canadian bye bye JP try again

Rays - Lost first two picks, weird for a franchise that has been so "on" lately on the baseball and business side

Mets & Phillies - in the bottom 10 in spending but top 5 in team revenues, I know the picks were lower but all 3 teams have easy sales pitches, go overslot if you want to stay where you are or you'll slowly fall off your perch