What's the point of Ricky Renteria. He gets out managed on a daily basis and his teams lack basic baseball fundamentals. I'm not sure why the hell he's here.
He won the Golden Spikes award as a sophomore. He's mashed. If he's not mashing now it's most likely because he's pressing and not because he forgot how to hit.
I go:
1. Adley
2. Jr
3. Abrams
I won't be upset if they took Abrams over Jr. I will be very upset if they pass on both of them for a college bat not named Adley.
That's still an awfully big chunk when you have 13 other players to sign. I think a more likely scenario would be pushing down a guy like Riley Greene for around $5M. Either way Zona is in the drivers seat and it's going to be interesting to see how they play it.
Sure they can Ricky Williams the draft though I'm not sure that would be the smartest use of their pool money. Maybe if there was a Bryce Harper/Ken Griffey Jr/A-Rod type player available. Adley is really good but he's not a generational talent.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2019-mlb-draft-signing-bonus-pool-and-pick-values/
I acquired this top secret information from an industry source two days ago. It's called twitter you fuckin dopes.