The Cardinal Draft Tracker

As I noted in this morning’s podcast, the Cardinals are going to have some difficulty signing all of their draftees in the first 10 rounds; the college players might not create a bonus pool surplus to get the high schoolers. Below I have laid out different tables to track the signings.

I’ll be updating these as often as possible. These are current as of 06/24/2015.

First is the Pool Tracker. The Cardinals have $7,387,200 to spend without penalty on their first 10 rounds, plus any overage after that. The table also has the amount they can spend plus 5%; that’s the amount they can spend without losing future picks.

Note: All figures are in thousands.

Available	Used	Overage
$7,387.2	$7,214.4	$(172.8)
Available + 5%	Used	Overage
$7,756.6	$7,214.4	$(542.2)

Next is the signed percentage for the full draft.

Drafted	Signed	Percentage
42	30	71%

The following table is everyone the Cardinals drafted. As they are signed, I’ll put the bonus in, along with the difference in slot value. Signed players are bolded.

Round	Pick	Player	Pos	School	State	Slot	Signed	Difference
1	23	Nick Plummer	OF	Brother Rice HS	MI	$2,124.4	$2,124.4	$-
1	39	Jake Woodford	RHP	Plant HS	FL	$1,585.4	$1,800.0	$214.6
2	66	Bryce Denton	3B	Ravenwood HS	TN	$935.0	$1,200.0	$265.0
3	100	Harrison Bader	OF	Florida	FL	$570.3	$400.0	$(170.3)
3	105	Jordan Hicks	RHP	Cypress Creek HS	TX	$543.3	$600.0	$56.7
4	131	Paul DeJong	3B	Illinois State	IL	$422.9	$200.0	$(222.9)
5	161	Ryan Helsley	RHP	Northeastern State	OK	$316.5	$225.0	$(91.5)
6	191	Jacob Evans	LHP	Oklahoma	OK	$237.0	$150.0	$(87.0)
7	221	Jesse Jenner	C	San Diego	CA	$179.1	$10.0	$(169.1)
8	251	Ian Oxnevard	LHP	Shorewood HS	WA	$167.4	$500.0	$332.6
9	281	Andrew Brodbeck	2B	Flagler	FL	$156.2	$5.0	$(151.2)
10	311	Kep Brown	OF	Wando HS	SC	$149.7	$-	$(149.7)
11	341	Paul Salazar	RHP	Lutheran South Academy	TX	$100.0	$-	$-
12	371	Jacob Schlesener	LHP	Logan-Rogersville HS	MO	$100.0	$-	$-
13	401	Craig Aikin	OF	Oklahoma	OK	$100.0	$-	$-
14	431	Carson Cross	RHP	Connecticut	CT	$100.0	$-	$-
15	461	Ryan Merrill	SS	Iowa Western CC	IA	$100.0	$-	$-
16	491	Max Almonte	RHP	Villanova	PA	$100.0	$-	$-
17	521	Chris Chinea	C	LSU	LA	$100.0	$-	$-
18	551	Josh Rolette	C	Shawnee HS	OK	$100.0	$-	$-
19	581	Ryan McCarvel	C	Howard JC	TX	$100.0	$-	$-
20	611	Luke Doyle	2B	Yavapai JC	AZ	$100.0	$-	$-
21	641	Gadyn Grenier	SS	Bishop Gorman HS	NV	$100.0	$-	$-
22	671	Hunter Newman	1B	Trevecca Nazarene	TN	$100.0	$-	$-
23	701	Gio Brusa	OF	Pacific	CA	$100.0	$-	$-
24	731	Daniel Martin	2B	Azusa Pacific	CA	$100.0	$-	$-
25	761	Kyle Molnar	RHP	Aliso Niguel HS	CA	$100.0	$-	$-
26	791	Brennan Leitao	RHP	Sacramento State	CA	$100.0	$-	$-
27	821	Gregory Tomchick	RHP	Old Dominion	VA	$100.0	$-	$-
28	851	Mitchell Traver	RHP	TCU	TX	$100.0	$-	$-
29	881	Ben Yokley	RHP	Air Force	CO	$100.0	$-	$-
30	911	Matt Vierling	OF	CBS HS	MO	$100.0	$-	$-
31	941	Aaron Coates	LHP	Glasgow HS	DE	$100.0	$-	$-
32	971	Thomas Spitz	OF	Wingate	NC	$100.0	$-	$-
33	1001	Chandler Hawkins	LHP	Arkansas State	AR	$100.0	$-	$-
34	1031	Parker Kelly	RHP	Westview HS	OR	$100.0	$-	$-
35	1061	Luke Harrison	RHP	Indiana	IN	$100.0	$-	$-
36	1091	Dylan Tice	2B	West Chester	PA	$100.0	$-	$-
37	1121	Stephen Zavala	C	Whittier	CA	$100.0	$-	$-
38	1151	Orlando Olivera	OF	Missouri Baptist	MO	$100.0	$-	$-
39	1181	R.J. Dennard	1B	Armstrong State	GA	$100.0	$-	$-
40	1211	Joseph Hawkins	SS	Missouri State	MO	$100.0	$-	$-

Update: 10th round pick Kep Brown will not sign and will attend the University of Miami in the fall. The Cardinals will lose $149,700 from their bonus pool; they will still have $23,100 available to spend without penalty after taking out Brown’s slot value. That leaves $385,000 to spend before they lose draft picks; they probably won’t be able to sign any of Paul Salazar (11th), Jacob Schlesener (12th) or Kyle Molnar (25th) with only $485,000 available to spend.

They have until July 17th to sign their picks.

The last 2 tables are breakdowns of what they took. First is by position:

C	5	12%
1B	2	5%
2B	4	10%
3B	2	5%
SS	3	7%
OF	8	19%
RHP	13	31%
LHP	5	12%

Second is by education level:

High School	14	33%
JuCo	3	7%
College	25	60%