Yesterday, the Yankees have announced that they have signed their top-5 picks in the 2022 MLB Draft as well as a few UDFA's!
MLB Draft Signings:
In the 2022 MLB Draft, there were 20 rounds (not including an additional 2 competitive balance rounds and 2 compensation rounds), during which the New York Yankees had a total of 20 picks, or one per round. As it goes, the Yankees drafted the following 20 players:
Spencer Jones (OF) - Vanderbilt
Drew Thorpe (P) - Cal Poly
Trystan Vrieling (P) - Gonzaga
Anthony Hall (OF) - Oregon
Eric Reyzelman (P) - LSU
Chase Hampton (P) - Texas Tech
Cam Schlittler (P) - Northeastern
Brett Barrera (SS) - Stanford
Matt Keating (P) - USC
Will Brian (P) - Eastern Kentucky
Ryan Harvey (P) - UC Santa Barbara
Jackson Fristoe (P) - Mississippi State
Geoffrey Gilbert (P) - Clemson
Kris Bow (P) - College of Southern Nevada
Tayler Aguilar (OF) - Grand Canyon University
Shane Gray (P) - Evansville
Hayden Merda (P) - Azusa Pacific University
Sebastian Keane (P) - Northeastern
Beau Brewer (3B) - Paris JC
Trevor Kirk (P) - Elon University
From those 20 players, the New York Yankees have already officially announced that they have signed each of their top-5 draft picks, as well as their 11th round draft pick. This is how much they have each gotten:
Spencer Jones (1st round) - $2,880,000
Drew Thorpe (2nd round) - $1,190,000
Trystan Vrieling (3rd round) - $611,400
Anthony Hall (4th round) - $456,500
Eric Reyzelman (5th round) - $340,700
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Ryan Harvey (11th round) - $250,000
For each of the top-5 draft picks, the Yankees signed them to bonuses that were equal with the value of the draft slot. Ryan Harvey was signed to an over-slot value (as every pick in the 11th-20th round had no assigned value).
The Yankees have a total draft bonus pool of $6,428,600. As of now (with the 6th-10th round players not yet signed), they have used $5,728,600 of that money. They can spend up to $6,750,030 (while paying a 75% luxury tax on the additional $321,430) before any draft-pick penalties are applied. Additionally, if a player in the 6th-10th round does not sign, the slot value of that pick is removed from the bonus pool. The following are the bonus figures for the 6th-10th rounds:
6th round - $264,000
7th round - $207,500
8th round - $172,300
9th round - $158,000
10th round - $149,800
In addition, the Yankees have signed 6 additional undrafted free-agents. These are the following players (thanks to Eli Fishman for this information; tweet below):
Alex Bustamante (RHP) - New Mexico State
Jackson Lyon (OF) - Cal State Fullerton
Hueston Morrill (INF/RHP) - Oklahoma State
Kevin Stevens (RHP) - Rio Grande Valley
Adam Stone (RHP) - Harvard
Baron Stuart (RHP) - Pittsburgh
outfielders, pitchers and more pitchers.
drafting late in the rounds for the domestic draft, as usual, we can expect the Yankees to shoot for the stars in the international draft, which is far less regimented.