Daily Notes, With Two Useful Tables re: Draft Signees

Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Daily Notes.

1. Two Useful Tables Regarding First-Round Draft Signees
2. Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Two Useful Tables Regarding First-Round Draft Signees
A Note on the Following
On Sunday, we published in these electronic pages a table of the first-round picks who’d signed so far, along with (a) the amount of each signee’s bonus, (b) MLB’s suggested bonus for each corresponding slot, and (c) probably some really well-crafted prose that improved your outlook on life.

In any case, what follows is that same table, updated to include signings that’ve occurred in the interim.

Table: 2012 First-Round Draft Signees, Updated
The following information has been aggregated from Baseball America, MLB Trade Rumors, My MLB Draft, and also the Entire Internet. Players marked with an asterisk (*) have signed since Sunday.

Player	Team	POS	Pick	Slot	Bonus	New
Carlos Correa	Houston	SS	1	$7.200	$4.800
Byron Buxton	Minnesota	OF	2	$6.200	$6.000	*
Kyle Zimmer	Kansas City	RHP	5	$3.500	$3.000
David Dahl	Colorado	OF	10	$2.700	$2.600	*
Gavin Cecchini	New York NL	SS	12	$2.550	$2.300
Nick Travieso	Cincinnati	RHP	14	$2.375	$2.000	*
D.J. Davis	Toronto	OF	17	$2.000	$1.750	*
Michael Wacha	St. Louis	RHP	19	$1.900	$1.900	*
Chris Stratton	San Francisco	RHP	20	$1.850	$1.850	*
Lucas Sims	Atlanta	RHP	21	$1.825	$1.650
Stryker Trahan	Arizona	C	26	$1.700	$1.700
Clint Coulter	Milwaukee	C	27	$1.675	$1.675
Victor Roache	Milwaukee	OF	28	$1.650	$1.525
Lewis Brinson	Texas	OF	29	$1.625	$1.625	*

A Note on the Above
As was the case with the draftees who’d signed by Sunday, it remains the case that precisely zero teams have signed a first-round pick for a dollar amount above the amount suggested by Major League Baseball. The Houston Astros, in particular — by signing their first-overall pick to ca. $2.5 million less than slot — have created a surplus of funds with which they can address their other draftees, need be.

Table: Last Year’s Bonuses vs. This Year’s Slot Values
Here’s a (sortable) table containing last year’s top-30 picks, with their respective signing bonuses compared to the present recommended slot bonuses:

Player	Team	Pos	Pick	2011 Bonus	2012 Pool	Diff
Gerrit Cole	Pittsburgh	RHP	1	$8.000	$7.200	$0.800
Danny Hultzen	Seattle	LHP	2	$8.500	$6.200	$2.300
Trevor Bauer	Arizona	RHP	3	$4.000	$5.200	-$1.200
Dylan Bundy	Baltimore	RHP	4	$6.000	$4.200	$1.800
Bubba Starling	Kansas City	OF	5	$7.500	$3.500	$4.000
Anthony Rendon	Washington	3B	6	$7.000	$3.250	$3.750
Archie Bradley	Arizona	RHP	7	$5.000	$3.000	$2.000
Francisco Lindor	Cleveland	SS	8	$2.900	$2.900	$0.000
Javier Baez	Chicago NL	SS	9	$2.625	$2.800	-$0.175
Cory Spangenberg	San Diego	2B	10	$1.863	$2.700	-$0.837
George Springer	Houston	OF	11	$2.525	$2.625	-$0.100
Taylor Jungmann	Milwaukee	RHP	12	$2.525	$2.550	-$0.025
Brandon Nimmo	New York	OF	13	$2.100	$2.475	-$0.375
Jose Fernandez	Florida	RHP	14	$2.000	$2.375	-$0.375
Jed Bradley	Milwaukee	LHP	15	$2.000	$2.250	-$0.250
Chris Reed	Los Angeles NL	LHP	16	$1.589	$2.125	-$0.536
C.J. Cron	Los Angeles AL	1B	17	$1.467	$2.000	-$0.533
Sonny Gray	Oakland	RHP	18	$1.540	$1.950	-$0.410
Matt Barnes	Boston	RHP	19	$1.500	$1.900	-$0.400
Tyler Anderson	Colorado	LHP	20	$1.400	$1.850	-$0.450
Tyler Beede	Toronto	RHP	21	N/A	$1.825	N/A
Kolten Wong	St. Louis	2B	22	$1.300	$1.800	-$0.500
Alex Meyer	Washington	RHP	23	$2.000	$1.775	$0.225
Taylor Guerrieri	Tampa Bay	RHP	24	$1.600	$1.750	-$0.150
Joe Ross	San Diego	RHP	25	$2.750	$1.725	$1.025
Blake Swihart	Boston	C	26	$2.500	$1.700	$0.800
Robert Stephenson	Cincinnati	RHP	27	$2.000	$1.675	$0.325
Sean Gilmartin	Atlanta	LHP	28	$1.134	$1.650	-$0.516
Joe Panik	San Francisco	SS	29	$1.116	$1.625	-$0.509
Levi Michael	Minnesota	SS	30	$1.175	$1.600	-$0.425

Video of a Signee
For no reason in particular, here’s video of Cardinals’ signee Michael Wacha, who, according to Kendall Rogers of Perfect Game, “tops out at 95 mph, but consistent[ly] throws his fastball at 92-94 mph. Changeup comes in at 81-84 mph.”

Stats of That Same Signee
Here’s Wacha’s line from Texas A&M this season: 113.1 IP, 9.2 K/9, 1.6 BB/9, 0.3 HR/9. By comparison the entire Aggies team (which finished 16-8 in the Big 12) recorded this line: 554.1 IP, 7.6 K/9, 2.3 BB/9, 0.4 HR/9.

Today’s Notable Games
Boston at Miami | 19:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
The Red Sox’ most dominant starter starts tonight: Felix Doubront. His strikeout rate of 24.6% (9.77 K/9) is the best among Sox pitchers who’ve made at least two starts.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Boston Radio.

New York NL at Tampa Bay | 19:10 ET
“R.A. Dickey (81.0 IP, 79 xFIP-, 1.6 WAR) is having the best season ever for a knuckleballer,” I’ll announce without having done any research on the matter, except in the part of my brain responsible for making grand claims.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: New York NL Television.

Today’s Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire. The average NERD Game Score for today is 4.9.

Note: the following Game Scores include the poorly conceived playoff-odds adjustment discussed in a recent edition of Daily Notes. Also note: the following table is entirely sortable.

*Note: as pointed out by Kyle Lobner in the comments area, Jonathan Sanchez will be starting in Luke Hochevar’s place. That gives the game and overall score of just 1. Meanwhile, it appears as though Mat Latos will replace Mike Leake, leaving that Game Score unchanged.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Step. Strasburg	WAS	10	4	6	6	2	TOR	Kyle Drabek	12:37
Kevin Correia	PIT	1	2	4	4	3	BAL	Brian Matusz	19:05
Felix Doubront	BOS	8	5	5	3	3	MIA	Ricky Nolasco	19:10
Derek Lowe	CLE	2	4	5	4	6	CIN	Mike Leake	19:10
Hiroki Kuroda	NYA	3	6	5	6	5	ATL	Tim Hudson	19:10
R.A. Dickey	NYN	10	1	8	6	8	TB	David Price	19:10
Wade Miley	AZ	5	4	6	10	5	TEX	Matt Harrison	20:05
Rick Porcello	DET	6	4	5	2	7	CHN	Matt Garza	20:05
Randy Wolf	MIL	1	6	3	6	5	KC	Luke Hochevar	20:10
Cole Hamels	PHI	9	5	4	3	2	MIN	P.J. Walters	20:10
Jake Peavy	CHA	5	6	7	10	8	STL	Lance Lynn	20:15
Brand. McCarthy	OAK	4	3	4	9	7	COL	Alex White	20:40
C.J. Wilson	LAA	5	3	5	5	6	LAN	Nathan Eovaldi*	22:10
Jason Marquis	SD	1	6	1	5	3	SEA	Hector Noesi	22:10
J.A. Happ	HOU	6	6	6	4	7	SF	Matt Cain	22:15

To learn more about Pitcher and Team NERD scores click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.