Holding the third-overall decide within the 2025 Draft, there was loads of motive for the Seattle Mariners to be optimistic about including a top-tier expertise to their system.
A lot of the outstanding mock drafts main as much as Sunday’s first spherical linked the membership to the highest collegiate arms obtainable, however many anticipated Kade Anderson to be one of many first two alternatives within the draft.
Anderson “falling” to choose No. 3 was a significant win for the Mariners.
Mariners vice chairman of novice scouting Scott Hunter even instructed MLB.com’s Daniel Kramer, “to say this labored out as a best-case state of affairs can be an understatement, since Kade was ranked just about No. 1 on our board.”
Seattle wasted little time in locking up its new expertise, too. Studies started to flow into earlier than the primary spherical of the draft even concluded that the workforce had reached an settlement with Anderson on an $8.8M signing bonus.
The determine is notable as it’s $700K beneath the slot worth of the No. 3 decide, which can give the workforce extra flexibility in signing its different alternatives. Seattle already has the second-largest bonus pool for this yr’s draft (behind solely Baltimore).
