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Nothing to get excited about.  Happ just heard about the strip joint near the Phoenix airport.

Those two signings give the Cubs a little over 350 thousand overslot money to use elsewhere.  And the players get a chance to prove themselves.

What's the signing date deadline for college seniors taken in the draft?   

Is it July 17th like it is for the HS and college underclassman drafted? 

If college seniors are subject to a signing date deadline, when do they become free agents if they don't sign with the team that drafted them? 

Do they have to wait until next June's draft to see if they're drafted again before becoming a free agent?

David Berg ‏@davidberg_26  19m19 minutes ago
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Happ signed for $3 million, about $350,000 below slot.

Depending upon how much it takes to sign Dewees.

So, if Dewees is slot and Happ/Hudson are $350K under/over, that would leave them right on-slot through round 3. 

15% overage allows an extra $350, is that what you wrote Blue?  Not sure how much exactly the senior-signs will come under, but I'd think around $650 would be pretty conservative, somewhere in the $500-800 range? 

If the Wilson slot is around $500, the round-numbers very much seem to fit with $1.5 as the target for Wilson. 

I'm still somewhat surprised that of all the guys on the board who would have signed for $1.5, or pairs of guys who'd have signed for $750-each, that they opted for Wilson.  But it sure looks like a $1.5-type deal to me. 

I expect they had a defined price.  They had all night and all morning to be processing numbers with Wilson, followed immediately by slot Kellogg and then five senior signs.  Don't think we've heard Berg's number, perhaps he's not a $10K guy.  But I've really got to assume that they pretty much had a price on Wilson that they thought they could pay, if they did what they did. 

Also seems remotely unlikely that if they didn't have a defined deal with Wilson, that they didn't draft any other backup plans until round 26.  If they weren't pretty sure there $$ would get Wilson, and thought that if they didn't that they might end up with an extra $800 to spend, I'd have thought they'd draft a backup plan or two prior to Padgett in round 26.   

Absolutely.  They got a number of Wilson, they figured they could and they wanted to make it work if they did the right senior signs, and they proceeded accordingly.  If they thought they were $150K short, they'd have senior-signed in round 5, too.  If they thought they had $400 extra, they probably wouldn't have been senior-signing so early.  I'm very confident that they got it all budgeted down very carefully, perhaps with just a little cushion in the event that a father gets greedy and changes the story after the draft compared to what's said night of the draft, or whatever.