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August 22, 2008 10:00 PM

By Andrew Knepper

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�	Scott Kurtz for Area Code Baseball
�	Tim Beckham 2008 No. 1 overall pick took home 6.15 million.

Now that the 2008 signing period is over for this year's draft, we see that three total players in the first round were not able to negotiate their way into a professional contract, and of those three was young flame-thrower Gerrit Cole out of Orange Lutheran High in California. Being advised by the Scott Boras Corp., Cole was unable to reach terms with the New York Yankees, but he is committed to play at UCLA this upcoming season as UCLA looks to be a biggest winner after this year's MLB Draft.�

In the first round, nine high school players were selected out of the first thirty picks totaling over an astounding twenty-four million dollars in signing bonuses.

Today we look at how the organizations dealt with the signing bonuses for the high school players that were selected within the first 100 overall picks.

RD	PK	Team	Name	Signing Bonus
1	1	Tamp Bay Rays	Tim Beckham (Griffin HS, Ga.)	6,150,000
1	3	Kansas City Royals	Eric Hosmer (American Heritage HS, Fla.)	6,000,000
1	6	Florida Marlins	Kyle Skipworth (Patriot HS,Calif.)	2,300,000
1	14	Minnesota Twins	Aaron Hicks (Wilson HS, Calif.)	1,780,000
1	15	Los Angeles Dodgers	Ethan Martin (Stephens Country HS, Ga.)	1,732,500
1	16	Milwaukee Brewers	Brett Lawrie (Brookswood, B.C.)	1,700,000
1	24	Philadelphia Phillies	Anthony Hewitt (Salisbury, Conn.)	1,380,000
1	28	New York Yankees	Gerrit Cole (Orange Luthern HS, Calif.)	unsigned
1	30	Boston Red Sox	Casey Kelly (Sarasota HS, Fla.)	3,000,000
1s�	32	Milwaukee Brewers	Jake Odorizzi (Highland HS, Ill.)	1,060,000
1s	34	Philadelphia Phillies	Zach Collier (Chino Hills HS, Calif.)	1,020,000
1s	36	Kansas City Royals	Mike Montgomery (Hart HS, Calif.)	988,000
1s	38	Houston Astros	Jordan Lyles (Hartsville HS, S.C.)	930,000
1s	40	Atlanta Braves	Brett DeVall (Niceville HS, Fla.)	1,000,000
1s	42	San Diego Padres	Jaff Decker (Sunrise Mountain HS, Ariz.)	892,000
2	47	Tampa Bay Rays	Kyle Lobstein (Coconino HS, Ariz)	1,500,000
2	50	Baltimore Orioles	Xavier Avery (Cedar Grove HS, Ga.)	900,000
2	51	Philadelphia Phillies	Anthony Gose (Bellflower HS, Calif)	772,000
2	52�	Florida Marlines	Brad Hand (Chaska HS, Minn.)	760,000
2	53	Milwaukee Brewers	Seth Lintz (Marshall County HS, Tenn.)	900,000
2	54	Milwaukee Brewers	Cutter Dykstra (Westlake HS, Calif.)	737,000
2	55	Washington Nationals	Destin Hood (St. Paul's Episcopal HS, Ala.)	1,100,000
2	56	Houston Astros	Jay Austin (North Atlantic HS, Ga.)	715,000
2	57	Texas Rangers	Robbie Ross (Lexington Christian Aca., Ky.)	694,000
2	63	Toronto Blue Jays	Kenny Wilson (Sickles HS, Fla.)	644,000
2	64	Atlanta Braves	Tyler Stovall (Hokes Bluff HS, Ala.)	750,000
2	70	Atlanta Braves	Zeke Spruill (Kell HS, Ga.)	600,000
2	71	Philadelphia Phillies	Jason Knapp (North Hunterdon HS, N.J.)	590,000
2	74	Los Angeles Angels	Tyler Chatwood (Redlands East, Calif)	547,000
2	76	Cleveland Indians	Trey Haley (Central Heights HS, Texas)	1,250,000
2	77	Boston Red Sox	Derrik Gibson (Seaford HS, Del.)	600,000
3	80	Kansas City Royals	Tyler Sample (Mullen HS, Colo.)	500,000
3	81	Baltimore Orioles�	L.J. Hoes (St. John's HS, D.C.)	490,000
3	83	Florida Marlins	Edgar Olmos (Birmingham HS, Calif)	478,000
3	88	Houston Astros	Chase Davidson (Milton HS, Ga.)	unsigned
3	91	St. Louis Cardinals	Niko Vasquez (Durango HS, Nev.)	423,000

MLB draft, CA, FL, AL, TX, GA, AZ, Signing Bonuses

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