Baseball Musings (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
19 June 2008: Tampa Bay Rays 2008 first overall pick Tim Beckham takes batting practice with his new team after signing his contract at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fl. Beckham received $6.15 million.Photo: Icon SMI With so many...
True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The Giants signed top pick Buster Posey to a major league contract and handed him a 7.5 million dollar signing bonus. Number one overall pick Tim Beckham received a 6.15 million dollar bonus. Signing Posey to a major league contract means that he has to be placed on the 40 man roster immediately, so he'll be out of options by 2011. Paul DePodesta is really happy that the Padres were able to claim...
Baseball Analysts (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The August deadline to sign 2008 draft picks will be here before you know it. To date, only one-third of the first round selections have signed on the dotted line with their respective clubs. First overall pick and high school shortstop Tim Beckham (Tampa Bay) is the highest pick to have signed, followed by prep catcher Kyle Shipworth (Florida) sixth overall. Here is a breakdown of all the confirmed...
DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The good? David Price makes his AA debut tonight with Montgomery, while Tim Beckham makes his professional debut in Princeton playing DH. Also, Rays 1B Carlos Pena will be DHing for high class-A Vero Beach and should be activated if all goes well. Also, relief prospect Eduardo Morlan will represent the Rays as a member of the World team in the Futures Game. The bad? ProjectProspect is reporting that...
Rays Index (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Lehigh Valley 4, Durham 3 . Ben Hendrickson gave up a single unearned run in 7 innings... Elliot Johnson hit his 4th home run and drove in 2. Mobile 6, Montgomery 4 . James Houser gave up 6 runs in 4 innings... Chris Nowak drove in 3 of the runs on 1-3 hitting. Vero Beach 5, Clearwater 2 . With the recent roster changes Chuck Tiffany got the spot-start and threw 3 shutout innings, on 4 hits and 1...
http://riveraveblues.com/feed (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
I missed this one while I was out of town at the end of last week. Tim Beckham, the first overall pick in this year’s draft, agreed to a record $6.15M deal, bringing in $50,000 more than The Justin Upton did in 2005. I’m surprised the deal was announced so soon, but Jim Callis doesn’t [...]
SportsAgentBlog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Last week, Tim Beckham received a $6.15 million signing bonus after being selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft. The $6.15 million bonus is the largest sum that any drafted player has received in the history of the MLB; it is $50,000 more than Justin Upton received as [...]
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Tim Beckham used one word to describe how it felt to walk into the Tampa Bay Rays clubhouse and spot a jersey with his name on the back hanging in a locker next to established major leaguers."Sweet," the talented high school shortstop from Griffin, Ga., said Thursday.The Rays were all smiles, too, after taking just two weeks to sign the No. 1 pick in this month's baseball draft.Beckham...
Baseball Toaster: The Griddle (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
#1 draft pick Tim Beckham signed a contract today with the Tampa Bay Rays that included a signing bonus of $6.15 million.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The Tampa Bay Rays signed highly-touted shortstop Tim Beckham on Thursday.
Baseball By Paul (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Last week, the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft was held and the Tampa Bay Rays made Tim Beckham the #1 overall pick. The high school shortstop joins Josh Hamilton, Delmon Young and last year’s David Price as the fourth player to be drafted first overall by the Rays franchise. The two most recent, Price [...]
ArmchairGM (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Intro:Welcome to Manny Stiles ' Daily Column: "Sportune Cookie" - This is your brain on sportswiki. You will go on an amazing adventure (in sports) Sportune Cookie If you think "real men don't eat quiche", you've never had my Steak Quiche Tim Beckham, fine pick at #1, considering he was
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Associated Press : Rays select SS Tim Beckham with top pick in draft — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Rays selected Tim Beckham with the No. 1 pick in the baseball draft Thursday, choosing the talented high school shortstop from Griffin, Ga., over Florida State catcher Buster Posey.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Late-night deliberations often stretched into the wee hours of the morning, until Tampa Bay settled on Tim Beckham as the No. 1 pick in the baseball draft.Then, the Rays didn't waver."As the process went on, getting a chance to spend time with him, to see that this is truly who he was — because when you watch this guy play, there's this enthusiasm and there's this advanced...
Baseball Analysts (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
The first day of the MLB draft covered six rounds (plus compensation rounds between the first and second as well as the third and fourth) and produced 202 picks, starting with Tim Beckham (Tampa Bay) at No. 1 and ending with Ryan Lavarnway (Boston) at No. 202. Beckham was the fifth high school shortstop in the past 20 years to be taken at the top of the draft. The other four? Justin Upton (Arizona,...
