{"id":12133,"date":"2022-07-19T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=12133"},"modified":"2022-07-19T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:53:49","slug":"diamondbacks-give-druw-jones-8-19-million-signing-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2022\/07\/19\/diamondbacks-give-druw-jones-8-19-million-signing-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks give Druw Jones $8.19 million signing bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12134\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones-696x392.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones-1068x601.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2022\/07\/druwjones.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks and first pick pick Druw Jones have agreed on a $8.19 million signing bonus. The bonus is the largest for a high school position player, topping the $7.7 million given to Bobby Witt Jr. by the Royals in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Druw Jones, the No. 2 overall pick, has a deal with the D-Backs for $8,185,100. The slot value tops the previous $7.7M record of Bobby Witt Jr. for a HS player. Jones is a CF, same as his father, Braves great Andruw Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1549425940203089926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jones was selected second overall by the Diamondbacks behind Jackson Holliday who went first overall to the Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diamondbacks and first pick pick Druw Jones have agreed on a $8.19 million signing bonus. The bonus is the largest for a high school position player, topping the $7.7 million given to Bobby Witt Jr. by the Royals in 2019. Druw Jones, the No. 2 overall pick, has a deal with the D-Backs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[1191,503],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-druw-jones","8":"tag-front"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12133\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}