{"id":4942,"date":"2025-07-18T07:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4942\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:04","slug":"draft-signings-braves-angels-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4942\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Signings: Braves, Angels – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals announced a deal with fifth overall pick\u00a0Liam Doyle<\/a> this morning<\/a>. A few other notable recent draft signings (all first reported by Baseball America\u2019s Carlos Collazo<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Braves reached underslot deals with first and second round picks\u00a0Tate Southisene and\u00a0Alex Lodise. Southisene signed for roughly $2.62MM against a near-$4MM slot value; Lodise signed for $1.3MM, around $200K below slot. That enabled the Braves to go above slot for fourth and fifth round picks\u00a0Briggs McKenzie and\u00a0Conor Essenburg. McKenzie received a near-$3MM bonus that\u2019ll be the highest in Atlanta\u2019s class. Baseball America<\/a> ranked the 6\u20192\u2033 lefty as the #46 prospect in the class pre-draft, putting him more as a top of the second round talent. The Braves were able to slide him to the fourth because of the bonus money. Southisene, a right-handed hitting prep infielder, placed 43rd on BA\u2019s rankings.
\nThe\u00a0Angels agreed to a $2.0772MM deal with second-rounder\u00a0Chase Shores<\/a>, Collazo reports. That\u2019s essentially slot value for the #47 pick. Shores, an LSU product, is a 6\u20198\u2033 right-handed pitcher who posted a 5.09 ERA over 63 2\/3 innings in his draft year. He recorded 70 strikeouts and issued 31 walks. Baseball America had him 86th on their rankings, praising his fastball-slider combination but raising questions about his changeup and control. ESPN\u2019s Kiley McDaniel<\/a> had him as the #68 player in the class. Based on the Angels history, it seems likely that they\u2019ll try to fast-track Shores to the big leagues as a reliever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals announced a deal with fifth overall pick\u00a0Liam Doyle this morning. A few other notable recent draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[5709,49,48,5710,462,82,5711],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-briggs-mckenzie","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chase-shores","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tate-southisene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}