{"id":3203,"date":"2013-06-19T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2013-06-19T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:19:21","slug":"houston-astros-sign-no-1-overall-draft-pick-mark-appel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/19\/houston-astros-sign-no-1-overall-draft-pick-mark-appel\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros sign No. 1 overall draft pick Mark Appel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3204\" alt=\"appel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/appel.jpg\" width=\"657\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/appel.jpg 657w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/appel-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371668941517_2373\">Weekend reports that the Houston Astros had reached a deal with No. 1 overall pick Mark Appel were not too far off base.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371668941517_2372\">On Wednesday the Astros officially came to terms with Appel and will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. ET to announce the signing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371668941517_2370\">Jim Callis of Baseball America reports that Appel will receive a $6.35 million bonus, which is nearly $1.5 million below the suggest price.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371668941517_2347\">Appel, 21, was considered to be the No.1 pick in the 2012 draft but fell all the way to No. 8 with signability concerns. Reports circulated then that he would reject a $6 million bonus by the Astros &#8211; who also had the No. 1 pick in 2012. He was eventually selected by Pittsburgh but rejected a bonus of $3.8 million and returned to Stanford for his senior season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371668941517_2350\">The new signing bonus by the Astros is worth in excess of $2.5 million more than the one offered by the Pirates last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend reports that the Houston Astros had reached a deal with No. 1 overall pick Mark Appel were not too far off base. On Wednesday the Astros officially came to terms with Appel and will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. ET to announce the signing. Jim Callis of Baseball America reports that Appel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}