Holding the third-overall decide within the 2025 Draft, there was loads of motive for the Seattle Mariners to be optimistic about including a top-tier expertise to their system.
Many of the outstanding mock drafts main as much as Sunday’s first spherical related the membership to the highest collegiate arms out there, however many anticipated Kade Anderson to be one of many first two choices within the draft.
Anderson “falling” to choose No. 3 was a serious win for the Mariners.
Mariners vice chairman of novice scouting Scott Hunter even informed MLB.com’s Daniel Kramer, “to say this labored out as a best-case situation can be an understatement, since Kade was ranked just about No. 1 on our board.”
Seattle wasted little time in locking up its new expertise, too. Studies started to flow into earlier than the primary spherical of the draft even concluded that the group had reached an settlement with Anderson on an $8.8M signing bonus.
The determine is notable as it’s $700K beneath the slot worth of the No. 3 decide, which is able to give the group extra flexibility in signing its different choices. Seattle already has the second-largest bonus pool for this yr’s draft (behind solely Baltimore).
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