Before tonight's win over Florida (post to come later),the bigger story was the Pirates ability to land Jameson Taillon,Stetson Allie or both.
The answer was both as the Pirates continued to step their investment in the amateur draft as they added two of the top pitchers in the draft and arguably the top two high school pitchers that were available.
Taillon signed for what the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported as over 6.3 million,but under seven million,while Allie signed for between 1.5 and 2 million below his pre-draft asking price of three million,which scared teams off and allowed a top ten type prospect to slide to the Pirates in round two.
Both are likely to report to the Gulf Coast League or State College, although it will be more to acclimate themselves with professional baseball than to pitch over the final weeks of the season.
It isn't out of the realm of possibility that Taillon could start next season at West Virginia and perhaps Allie as well,although that could be less likely.
Finally,the Pirates have used the draft for legitimate gas throwers after years of watching sinkerballers and change of speed masters and although the change will take a while to go into affect with the players needing to progress through the system,hope continues for the Pirates.
Pittsburgh also went over slot to sign outfielder Dan Grovatt of Virginia (11th),Arizona State's slick fielding shortstop Andrew Maggi (15th) and Texas high school first baseman Jared Lakind (23rd) in their final haul of the signing season.
The Pirates finish with signing their top five picks and six of their top ten selections.
The Pirate total price tag looks to be around the 12 million dollar mark.
The Indians signed all three of their early picks and I'll post more on that later today along with the Bucco win over Florida.
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