Yankees sign Joseph
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jun 10, 2008 
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Damon Oppenheimer said today that the Yankees signed their fourth-round pick, Tennessee high school shortstop Corban Joseph. His bonus was not disclosed:
Here’s what Baseball America had to say about him:
In a competitive field, shortstop Corban Joseph distinguished himself as the top prep position player in the state because he plays a premium position and swings lefthanded. Joseph has plus bat speed and routinely squares balls up, hitting for power and average to all fields with a short swing. Joseph is an average runner, but speed will never be his game. He has a chance to stay at shortstop but will always be known for his offense than his defense.
UPDATE, 8:58 p.m.: According their respective hometown papers, two other picks have signed – 17th round pick Addison Maruszak and 24th round pick Mike Lyon.
There’s probably a few more. Once you get past the first few rounds, the college players tend to sign quickly.
Of the 51 guys they drafted, the Yankees probably have a fairly good idea on the plans of 40 of them before they were selected. The “signability” questions are often moot by the time the pick is made. A few of the late-round h.s. kids will go to college and some of the late-round college selections will stay in school rather than sign for what amounts to peanuts.
i think a shortstop is a good sign. jeter cant play there that much longer he will have to move position you can see the decrease in his range every day.
Ugh, stuck at the airport in Phoenix and I missed an entire thread dedicated to the Roger Clemens Viagra revelations.
Talk about a hanging straight line!
This is great news.. any idea how he projects compared to Angelini?
Nick in SF June 10th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Ugh, stuck at the airport in Phoenix and I missed an entire thread dedicated to the Roger Clemens Viagra revelations.
Talk about a hanging straight line!
Thanks, for reminding us in 4 different threads.
Jeter’s not going to be playing SS forever???
I’m surprised to hear that they came to terms with Joseph so quickly.
I assumed he would have to be signed over slot. Usually when a guy signs over slot the commissioners office delays approving the deal as long as possible to get some kind of retribution against the team for going over slot.
That’s why many yankee draftees miss a lot of the GCL and NY Penn league – their deals don’t get approved in time.
Perhaps Joseph signed for slot. Don’t know if the commissioners office has perhaps changed that silly practice of delaying over slot deals.
Either way its a real plus to get Joseph signed so soon. Now he’ll be able to play the entire GCL season.
Carmen Angellini is struggling some in Charleston this year and part of that may be due to him missing the GCL season last year because his deal wasn’t approved until very late.
zach,
I believe CB researched it and found that Jeters range has improved immensely this year.
The team holds them back because the commissioners office asks them to when they go over slot.
The commissioners office aren’t the final arbitrators of the contract. The teams hold back because they don’t want to piss off the office.
Pete,
Forgot to mention – once again great coverage of the draft and now great coverage of the signings. You’ve been completely on top of this and your reporting really shows how you understand that covering the yankees has really changed with their new direction focusing on internal player development.
CB,
How does he compare to Angelini coming out of high school?
“Carmen Angellini is struggling some in Charleston this year and part of that may be due to him missing the GCL season last year because his deal wasn’t approved until very late.”
He’s also about 2 yrs younger than everyone else in the league and its his first yr of pro ball. Could be why hes struggling some. Even though he has been playing better of late. He is going to be a player. Too much talent. He didn’t miss time because of the commish though. He was negotiating til the end because he had a firm commit to Rice. And the Yanks paid for him out of that. He wasn’t signing early no matter what.
You see that thing with No Maaas and Pete??
Weird. WOuld love to hear Pete’s view on it.
“The commissioners office aren’t the final arbitrators of the contract. The teams hold back because they don’t want to piss off the office.”
I might be wrong, but I don’t think this is true.
The commissioners office has to approve all contracts. Now this approval is purely technical – they just have to put their stamp on in.
And obviously the commissioners office has nothing to do with the terms of the contract.
But until the office puts their stamp on it the player is no officially on the team.
There’s no way the yankees are hurting their internal player development in order to make the commissioners office happy. The yanks and sox aren’t delaying the announcement of these signing just to make Selig happy.
Two years ago the yankees were forced to send both Chamberlain and Kennedy to the Hawaiian winter ball league when they really wanted to get them to the NY Penn League. That happened because both chamberlain and kennedy were way over slot and the commissioners office wouldn’t approve the deal until very late.
No way the yankees would just have guys like Chamberlain and Kennedy miss the entire NY Penn league and have to send them to the inferior Hawaiian league just because they are afraid of bud selig.
Hopefully we dont see Carmen do a E.Duncan on us. But i believe that had alot to do with his injuries. If a back injury can slow down Mr.Baseball himself. Why wouldnt it slow down a young minor leaguer.
SoS27,
I believe he’s not as good an athlete but has more power. That’s the thing people like with him – his power bat. He seems more like a guy who can hit with power and will be good enough to play short to leave him there.
“way over slot”
Can you give me the point of origin please? Can i have it in a sentence?
ripcord, thanks for the plug, you were off by a factor of 2, but there’s still time. Hey, there’s a new thread!
“Can you give me the point of origin please? Can i have it in a sentence?”
Kennedy got a 2.25 million dollar bonus – a record for the 21st pick.
Joba got a 1.1 million dollar bonus – way over slot for the 41st pick. That’s first round money.
CB,
Many thanks.
We’ve also signed David Adams, 3rd round pick and Addison Maruszak, 13th round pick.
One thing that may have helped sign him quickly was that he was committed to play college ball here at the University of Kentucky, where coach John Cohen just resigned to take over at Mississippi State. Small factor when it comes to signing with a pro team like the Yankees, but it could have been a factor nonetheless.
As much as I like seeing KY getting commits from talented players, I’ll take them in the Yankees organization instead on any given day.
Greinke 12th rd pick signed
CoJo will probably be a 2B, not a SS, for the Yanks.
Pete, also 3rd rounder David Adams
we signed Cujo that’s great news..Now get Chris Smith signed.
The kid from Princeton signed, 31 rd Spencer Lucian a second sacker destined for the S.i.Yankees