Official Site of the Padres · Jun 25, 2015
Padres get creative in slicing up Draft money
The Padres select right-handed pitcher Austin Smith with the 51st pick of the 2015 MLB DraftDespite being stuck with a pool of $3,671,200, the second-lowest among Major League teams, the Padres still managed to sign all nine of the players they drafted in the first 10 rounds.
They just had to get resourceful to do so.
"We still went after the players that we wanted," said Padres first-year scouting director Mark Conner. "We just had to be creative."
The Padres were able to make all of this work, in part, because they got their last two picks in the first 10 rounds to sign for well below the recommended slot for their respective spots.