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Red Sox come to terms with Workman, Coyle 08.16.10 at 4:58 pm ET
By Alex Speier

According to sources familiar with the situation, the Red Sox have come to terms with both second-round selection Brandon Workman, and Sean Coyle, their third-round pick.

Workman, a right-handed pitcher out of the University of Texas (the draft’s 57th round overall pick), will sign a deal that includes an $800,000 signing bonus. The agreement was finalized after a call between the Red Sox and Workman’s representatives on a 2 p.m. call, with the player coming down from his asking price of $1.25 million and the Sox coming up from the MLB’s suggested slot of approximately $634,000. He will begin his professional career in the coming days, reporting to Fort Myers.

Coyle the 110th overall selection in this year’s amateur draft, has agreed to a signing bonus of $1.3 million, WEEI.com has confirmed (the bonus amount was first reported by Baseball America’s Jim Callis). The Pennsylvania high school star flew into Boston with his father for a physical on Monday, and to see if the final details of a contract could be arranged. The finalized terms were well above MLB’s recommended slot of $300,000.

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  • Mike C

    Isn’t $ 1.3 million more than quadruple $ 300K?

  • Ryan

    It means nothing where you are drafted, it all comes down to money. Other teams don’t have the money to spend that the Sox do, so we take good-not-great players liek Vitek and Brentz and sign them to slot deals, then takes all the kids that ask for the moon and sign them…. other teams would only be getting one or two of the kids that we are just penciling in after Ranaudo.

  • Eric

    I wonder how #57 feels about signing for about 60% of what #110 got (btw, WEEI: $1.3M is over quadruple the $300K slot, not “nearly triple”).

    More importantly: you Theo-haters remember today during the coming free agent season. People like to call Sox management cheap when the Sox won’t overpay for a free agent, but the Sox are spending big money today to sign top-notch prospects. Sox management isn’t cheap when it comes to developing talent. None of these guys are sure-things, of course, but if any of these guys becomes the next Pedroia, Bard, or Buchholtz, it’s money very very well spent.

  • http://soxprospects.com Carlos

    The signing of Workman, Coyle, Vitek, Brentz, LeBlanc Ramos, Perkins, Hernandez, Price, and hopefuly Anthony Ranaudo the big prize, would make this the best Red Sox draft class ever.

  • Mike

    What’s going on here? A Sox fourth rounder gets more than a third rounder, who gets more than a second rounder? Have I missed something here? If I’m Workman, I’m livid.

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