http://www.huskerextra.com/articles/2010/07/23/baseball/doc4c2bd2e726180817068124.txt

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/team/draft.jsp?c_id=tor

The dollar amounts are hard to gather because teams rarely provide them until later in the year. Everything you have above is what I heard as rumored though, great job!

Redlands East Valley pitcher Griffin Murphy, the 61st pick in this week’s Major League Baseball draft, has agreed in principle to a contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. The second-round pick said that he agreed to a signing bonus worth $800,000, which is the value that he was looking for prior to the draft.

“I’m really excited right now,” said Murphy, who will forgo a scholarship to the University of San Diego to sign. “This is a dream come true and I can’t believe that I’m about to play professional baseball. They came up from the number that the pick was slotted to get and met the number we wanted.”

Murphy indicated that the bonus number slotted for the 61st pick was $600,000. There is plenty to be done before he joins the Blue Jays’ organization though. The paperwork for signing the contract will be delayed some due to exchange rate and other issues that come from the Blue Jays’ location in Canada.

“I probably won’t start with the organization until early July,” Murphy said. “I just can’t wait to go and play ball.”

1 11 Deck McGuire RHP
1s 34 Aaron Sanchez RHP – SIGNED $775,000
1s 38 Noah Syndergaard RHP – SIGNED $600,000
1s 41 Asher Wojciechowski RHP – SIGNED $814,500
2 61 Griffin Murphy LHP -SIGNED $800,000 ($200,000 overslot)
2 69 Kellen Sweeney 3B -SIGNED $600,000 + tuition
2 80 Justin Nicolino RHP
3 93 Christopher Hawkins 3B – SIGNED $350,000
3s 113 Marcus Knecht OF – SIGNED $350,000
4 126 Sam Dyson RHP
5 156 Dickie Joe Thon SS – SIGNED $1.5 MILLION
6 186 Sean Nolin LHP – SIGNED (Undisclosed)
7 216 Mitchell Taylor LHP
8 246 Logan Ehlers LHP
9 276 Brandon Mims SS
10 306 Tyler Shreve RHP
11 336 Shane Opitz SS – SIGNED (Undisclosed + tuition)
12 366 Omar Cotto OF
13 396 Tyler Painton LHP
14 426 Dayton Marze RHP – SIGNED (Undisclosed)
15 456 Zak Adams LHP
16 486 Dalton Pompey OF – SIGNED $140,000
17 516 Myles Jaye RHP
18 546 Kris Bryant 3B
19 576 Travis Garrett RHP SIGNED (Undisclosed)
20 606 Art Charles LHP SIGNED (Undisclosed)
21 636 Chris Marlowe RHP
22 666 Aaron Westlake OF
23 696 Angel Gomez OF SIGNED (Undisclosed)
24 726 Ronnie Melendez OF SIGNED (Undisclosed)
25 756 Brando Tessar RHP
26 786 Jay Johnson LHP
27 816 Eric Arce C
28 846 Adaric Kelly RHP
29 876 Jonathan Jones OF SIGNED (Undisclosed)
30 906 Steve McQuail 2B SIGNED (Undisclosed)
31 936 Luis Benitez RHP
32 966 Andy Fermin 2B SIGNED (Undisclosed)
33 996 Melvin Garcia OF SIGNED (Undisclosed)
34 1026 Tyler Powell RHP – SIGNED ($10,000 +)
35 1056 Dan Barnes RHP – SIGNED (Undisclosed)
36 1086 David Whitehead RHP
37 1116 Chad Green RHP
38 1146 Pierce Rankin OF SIGNED (Undisclosed)
39 1176 Nick Vander Tuig RHP
40 1206 Brandon Berl RHP SIGNED (Undisclosed)
41 1236 Seth Conner 3B
42 1266 Drew Permison RHP – SIGNED (Undisclosed)
43 1296 Ronald Schreurs LHP
44 1326 Mott Hyde 2B
45 1356 Phil Diedrick OF
46 1386 Connor Smith RHP
47 1416 Gabriel Romero RHP
48 1446 Nick Studer C
49 1476 Matt Abraham 2B SIGNED (Undisclosed)
50 1506 Kelly Norris-Jones

I do expect they’ll be fine and that you’re correct, that 7 are left to sign. The price tag associated with Opitz is said to be “lief changing” in his family’s opinion, so it’ll be interesting to find out how much that amounts to.

I continue to praise Alex Anthopolous on all counts. He’s getting every single duck in a row for a run at championships in the very near future. It’s a very fun time to be a Jays fan and blogger!