2008 MLB Draft – Signing News

It’s been a little over a month since the MLB first year player draft, and there have been a hand full of signings since the completion of the draft. Below is a list of draft position, the player’s name, parent team, and minor league team. Since Tim Beckham signed with Razor, and who knows when we’ll see a card or autograph from him. In the meantime, you can write him care of his minor league team, cross your fingers and hope for an autograph. Speaking of which (big plug here) go to the Autograph Card Store and buy some cards to send through the mail to sign. Remember buy your first pack and receive some bad wax, after purchasing it, send Rusty a email at info@theautographcard.com and tell him you bought it through BadWax. He’ll email me and we’ll get your bad wax out to you. So far only one person took me up on this. So I still am offering 9 more bad wax packages to the next nine people.

Here is a list of all first round and sandwich pick signings. The list appears courtesy of Baseball America:

• 1 – Tim Beckham – Rays – Princeton Rays
• 6 – Kyle Skipworth – Marlins – GCL Marlins
• 12 – Jemile Weeks – A’s – Kane County Cougars
• 13 – Brett Wallace – Cardinals – Quad City River Bandits
• 14 – Aaron Hicks – Twins – GCL Twins
• 17 – David Cooper – Blue Jays – Lansing Lugnuts (Already promoted from NY-Penn League)
• 18 – Ike Davis – Mets – Brooklyn Cyclones
• 19 – Andrew Cashner – Cubs – AZL Cubs
• 22 – Reese Havens – Mets – Brooklyn Cyclones
• 24 – Anthony Hewitt – Phillies – GCL Phillies
• 25 – Christian Friedrich – Rockies – Tri-City Dust Devils
• 27 – Carlos Gutierrez – Twins – Ft. Meyers Miracle
• 29 – Lonnie Chisenhall – Indians – Mahoning Valley Scrappers
• 31 – Scooter Hunt – Twins – Elizabeth Twins
• 32 – Jake Odorizzi – Brewers – AZL Brewers
• 33 – Brad Holt – Mets – Brooklyn Cyclones
• 34 – Zach Collier – Phillies – GCL Phillies
• 35 – Evan Fredrickson – Brewers – West Virginia Power (Already promoted from Pioneer League)
• 36 – Mike Montgomery – Royals – AZL Royals
• 38 – Jordan Lyles – Astros – Greenville Astros
• 39 – Lance Lynn – Cardinals – Batavia Muckdogs
• 41 – Ryan Flaherty – Cubs – Boise Hawks
• 42 – Jaff Decker – Padres – AZL Padres
• 45 – Bryan Price – Red Sox – Lowell Spinner
• 46 – Logan Forsythe – Padres – Eugene Emeralds

I know that I might have missed some signings as of 7/12 but this is as complete as I can find. Let me know if you like this update. I figure there are a lot of people out there like me trying to figure out who is where. I will try and update this list about once a week. It will include all promotions as well. I think next week I’ll do a power index. Rank them as to how they are performing. Hope you found this usefull.

Tim Beckham (1st overall pick) Recent Razor Signee