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Per the Arizona Daily Star:

Injured in a base-running mishap last week for Class A Batavia (N.Y.), tearing his ACL and putting his baseball career on hold for about nine months, 2012 UA All-America shortstop Alex Mejia is likely to return to Tucson to work toward his degree. UA coach Andy Lopez believes Mejia’s post-playing career is likely to be that of a coach; a college degree is required to coach in college baseball. Mejia, thus, could wind up as a volunteer coach at Arizona during the 2013 fall and winter season.

 The Cardinals drafted Mejia in the 4th round of the 2012 draft out of the University of Arizona.

(h/t Chris)

All the round 31st through 40th round draftees are after the jump along with all the information I could find on the interwebs on each pick.

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I’ve been writing a lot about the draft this year, but with the new rules and the Cardinals’ many picks, this has been a fascinating year with plenty of stories to write about.  One that keeps jumping to the forefront again and again is James Ramsey.  This is nothing against James Ramey the player (who will start in High-A Palm Beach this week) who can hit and will have to fight to stay in centerfield, but Ramsey the draft pick and the bonus that he received that was a massive overpay by the Cardinals.  After the jump is the continuation of my rant/examination.

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The Cardinals have made official  a bunch of draft pick signings over the past few days, so it is time to take a look at where they stand with regards to the draft pick pool allotment.  After the jump, I take a look (with handy charts!).

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Subtitled: WHAT?
Per Jim Callis of Baseball America:
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#Cardinals‬, 1st-rder James Ramsey agree on $1.6 mil ($1.775 mil pick value). Believe that’s 2nd-highest bonus in ‪#mlbdraft‬ history for c …
James Ramsey’s $1.6 mil is 2nd-biggest ever for college senior. Trails only Matt LaPorta’s $2.07 mil. #mlbdraft #Cardinals

It was not long ago that I made peace and appreciated the Cardinals draft for where they spent money and where they saved money. I based a lot of that (and my following piece on where the Cardinals were with their draft pick signings and pool allotment, based on some bad information re: Max Foody) on James Ramsey signing for slightly more than the $500k he turned down last year. That would have saved about a million dollars, but now, the Cardinals will have very little money left over to attempt to sign Trey Williams (11th round) and Max Foody (12th round).

I’ll work on some of the draft math later this week, but needless to say, the savings on Heyer and Meijia will not be enough to sign both Trey Williams and Max Foody and probably not even one of them.

Kurt Heyer, Alex Mejia and James Ramsey will be playing tonight at 9pm ET/ 8pm CT on ESPN2 as Arizona takes on Florida State in the College World Series. Kurt Heyer will be getting the start and he pitched 9.1 innings his last time out in an extra inning win.  Check them out and let us know what you think in the comments!

(Sorry for the ugly post, the editor is not working right.)
As expected, the Cardinals signed Carson Kelly. Jim Callis has the details:

“#Cardinals agree w/2nd-rder Carson Kelly on $1.6 mil. Highest over value ($574,300) so far in #mlbdraft. Oregon HS 3B/RHP is 2-way talent.”

Before that signing, the Cardinals were on pace to be $778,610 under their pool

Carson Kelly’s pick value of $574,300 adds another approximately $1 million over slot. That puts the Cardinals currently on pace to be $221,390 over slot. Considering savings for James Ramsey in the 1st rounder looks to be at least $1 million.

The Cardinals have also signed Max Foody for $400k per Kendall Rogers of Perfect Game USA: 

“#Cardinals 12th-rdr and talented LHP Max Foody signed for $400K. Pick value for Foody was $100K. #FloridaState signee.”

So, the Cardinals put $300k back against that cap. I imagine the Cardinals will also get some small savings with Alex Mejia and Kurt Heyer in the 4th and 6th round.

That would leave the Cardinals $500,000 over slot to work with pending Ramsey, Mejia and Heyer’s deals. That seems like it would be enough over slot to sign Trey Williams for up to $600k.

It has been about two weeks since the Cardinals (and the rest of the league) had their First-Year Player draft.  Anticipation was very high because the Cardinals had 5 picks on the first night in the first round and first supplemental combined.  The Cardinals had what I thought was a big bonus pool and I was hoping they would go out and be aggressive.  But, what happened was different and it is hard to explain my emotions between disappointed/upset/let down.  But, after hearing how the new draft rules shook out the draft, I think the Cardinals did what they had to do and may have even been ahead of the game.  The rest after the jump!

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Jeremy Schaffer
Sr, Tulane University

Height: 6’01″
Weight: 215lbs
DOB: 01/16/90
Throws: R
Bats: R

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Anthony Melchionda
Sr, Boston College

Height: 6’
Weight: 195 lbs
DOB: 2/17/90
Throws: R
Bats: R

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