I certainly didn't expect the Cubs to be so aggressive in going after high schoolers after the start of this draft. My reading of the tea leaves might not be all that great, but Schlaffer sounds like a guy who might go for around slot. He wasn't particularly highly regarded coming into the draft, and I'm not sure where the extra money to pay him a substantial superslot would come from with us needing to sign more highly regarded guys like Hearn and Herz. We obviously expect him to sign, though, if we were going to take him in the 9th round.
Nice seeing us be a little more aggressive in the back part of the first ten rounds.