Cord Sandberg Agrees to Terms

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Short and sweet…Cord Sandberg, the Phils 3rd round pick has told his hometown newspaper that he has agreed to terms with the Phillies for $775K, about 160K over slot.

 

65 thoughts on “Cord Sandberg Agrees to Terms”

  1. I guess that is where the seniors in rounds 8-10 come in. Is there any standard on what is an appropriate bonus for seniors that the club is pretty clearly looking to save money on? And what happens if they just don’t sign one of those seniors?

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    1. I believe the seniors in 8-10 will get around the standard 10k. They might get more but not much more. I also believe all the seniors will sign since they really have 0 options if they want a shot to be a ball player. If you are a senior there is no reason to flush a few grand down the toilet when nobody will give you more after spurning the team that drafted you.

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    2. The 3 seniors they drafted in rounds 8-10, will get between 5K and 15K each. Each of those rounds have 150K bonus slots attached, so the Phillies will save between 400-425K on those guys. They can use that 425K to get a ‘hard to sign’ pitcher, later in the draft.

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  3. I’m just really glad Sandberg has made his decision and is anxious to get started. Not like a guy who waited until the deadline to sign a couple of years ago and then said he just wanted to enjoy the rest of his summer. Sounds like Cord will be coming to camp in shape.

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  4. I grossly underestimated how much a third rounder got for a bonus . Glad he signed .sorry about my comment on the other thread . Go Cord Sandburg . I like this kid hopefully im right . Well done philles now lets get JP signed and lets play ball!

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  5. Ranked pretty high. Compares to josh H. Give me 80 percent and ill take him. With him and Dylan c might have a pretty interesting pair of power LH

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  6. I know its early but is this guy a top 20 prospect in our farm i heard mention that JP might be 2 or 3 in phils system

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  7. Maybe I’m saying this because I’m still on cloud nine but this is icing on the cake. Great draft all around. Hopefully we can sign some good international player(s) and get back to having a good farm system.

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  9. I gotta say that I am very impressed with the strategy that the Phillies used in conducting this draft.
    1. The drafting of Knapp in the 2nd round was a smart way to get the best use of that draft slot allotment. He was a player who’s talent (#56 Keith Law) was worthy of that slot, but he has no leverage to get the entire 1 million dollar bonus associated. Some of his money can be moved later, for over slot, HS pitching.
    2. Taking HS position players at the 600K (#89), 500K (#96) and 400K (4th round) slots limit the amount that has to be added, to sweeten their deals. Jan Hernandez doesn’t even have a college commitment, so he probably signs for slot.
    3. Taking 3 seniors in the 8-10 spots, allows them to get all of the money for those spots (425K), so they can use later, on HS pitching, over slots.

    The way they conducted their draft, it only looks like they have one guy, Trey Williams, that might be a risk to refuse to sign, and his draft slot is minimal. Nothing lost if he doesn’t sign.

    The way they did conducted their draft, they probably have over 1 million dollars to play with, on HS pitching after round 10. All that while drafting five (5) of Keth Law’s top 88 players (#14 Crawford, #53 Sandberg, #56 Knapp, #74 Hernandez and #88 Sweaney).

    Smart draft.

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    1. I agree.
      Though not sure why Knapp would not have any leverage, since he was drafted where he was expected to be and does have the threat to head back to school. (Cozens last year was supposed to be an under slot guy.)
      Williams may not have much leverage either, which college has given him a scholarship?

      The question is how many ‘upside’ HS players did they ‘miss’ on drafting the last 3 rounds when they drafted college seniors?
      Also, generally it would make sense for them to draft HS kids they like who they know will take $100K with their first few rounds tomorrow (why not secure talent you are sure about). However, that may also limit the HS guys that other teams will want to take as potential bonus babies.

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      1. Knapp is college position player, Cozens was a HS player with a scholarship to play Division 1 football. They are in no way comparable. Knapp, can go back for his senior year, and risk having to sign for 50K next year, or play independent league. Depending on how fast the Phillies want his slot signed, they can play serious hardball with him and sign that guy for probably 500K.
        The Phillies didn’t miss out on any HS arms in rounds 8-10, when they took the college seniors. None of the good HS pitchers were going to sign for the 150K slots. The Phillies would have then needed to save enough money from Knapp, to overpay both Sandberg AND any of the HS pitchers they would have selected. The Phillies would have lost the 450K portion of the total pool money for no good reason, if they drafted 3 good HS pitchers in those rounds.
        Any team that selected a HS pitcher in rounds 6-10 is either stupid, or they have predraft, underslot, deals, with their 1st round pick.

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        1. Nice explanation.
          It would be an interesting game of chicken I suppose. I guess I would then wonder why any college Jr outside the first round would have any leverage at all? If Phillies had taken Kyle Ziomek in Rd2, do you think he’d accept a $0.5M bonus as a stud pitcher from Vanderbilt?
          Obviously it did not hurt Appel 🙂

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          1. No. I don’t think Ziomek would accept a discount. Stanford and Vanderbilt guys don’t give discounts to leave school.

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    1. Meh, it’s a Phils prospect list with LGJ and Valle ahead of Franco. Not taking it seriously.

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    3. I saw that aswell , i could understand dropping him a few spots but to say , he isnt top 20 for the phils I think is a bit much really, IMO Larry Greene and his below mendoza average should have taken a the demotion in prospect status

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  13. I am just loving the third round of this draft and enjoy the focus on the hitters. Although I am a huge fan of drafting TBPA, the number of catchers we have drafted and acquired leaves even me a little amazed and puzzled, primarily because when a catcher fails, there is essentially nowhere else for him to go unless he becomes a first tier hitter, which is uncommon.

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    1. Both of the catchers they took, can hit, so they can both be moved if necessary. In Sweaney’s scouting report, they think he can be moved to OF.

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    2. “I think he (Sandberg) slipped a little bit because [of football],” Wolever said. “I don’t think he had a great senior season. I thought it was all right. His last high school tournament he did OK, but nothing spectacular. I think if you combine all that I think that leads to where he was available for us in the draft.”

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    3. I think the focus on trying to add premier Catching prospects makes total sense. Ruiz is near the end of the line. Valle has seriously regressed. Probably none of Rupp, Numata, or Logan represent starting quality prospects…at least right now…assuming they even ever make it. I have no idea how they view Ludy right now. Lino still has a ways to go. They have the LA Catching prospect they signed last year but he is years away.

      So that leaves Joseph as the best hope to replace Ruiz in the future. The Phillies have added a lot of bodies at C over the past 2-3 seasons but not many premier prospects. Knapp is the highest pick on a C since 2007 when they took D’arnaud.

      Assuming they get Knapp and Sweaney signed, that raises the bar for everybody at C and finally gives the system not just some depth…but some quality prospects and depth.

      In my opinion C and MI represent the most valuable draft picks outside of pitching. It is why I always argued that Andrew Susac should have been the priority sign in 2009 instead of well down the list.

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  14. Hopefully, the Phillies draft local DELCO kid big 1b L-L Danny O’Neill, 6’3″, 235 lbs, this afternoon.

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  15. Which of the top 10 picks will see in Lakewood by the end of this season? Also, which of them will crack the top 25/30 prospects by this time last year?

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          1. First one to sign will have the inside track. If Crawford wasn’t drafted I’d say that Hernandez could have stuck at SS for now for playing time

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  17. Sandberg and Williams both look like terrific values if both catchers can hit, this has the makings of a very good draft after a mediocre first two rounds. Hernandez looks like a player also. I love the fact that many of these guys will sign quickly and we’ll get to see how they do this year, that’s certainly an improvement due to the new rules. Williams sure has the look of a kid that just wants to play ball…

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    1. murray…..’very good draft after a mediocre first two rounds;, so I guess Crawford and Knapp are chop liver!

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        1. HS kids normally forego such small bonus offerings and opt for the education and possible larger bonus’ in 2/3 years.

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          1. normally, but we saved some money in the first 10 rounds to throw a little money at them, and its not uncommon for one or two to change their minds and take the money

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  21. 11-13 all HS kids so far. The 13th rounder is going to play football for a school without a baseball program, I can easily see him playing football at Boise and still playing pro baseball with us at the same time.

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        1. ah ok. well maybe its a possibility. I dont know the NCAA rules, it just didnt sound real.

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      2. It’s a violation of scholarship so the player has to forfeit their scholarship, but they retain eligibility to play. They can’t accept endorsement deals for the other sport though or they would lose college eligibility. This is what happened to the snowborder/football player Jeremy Bloom at Colorado.

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