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Pirates Sign Fifth Round Pick Deon Stafford, Seventh Round Pick Jared Oliva

2017 Draft

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The Pittsburgh Pirates signed their seventh round pick on Monday night, outfielder Jared Oliva. The University of Arizona baseball team announced the contract signing on Twitter

Jim Callis notes that Oliva signed for $200,000, which is the slot amount, so no savings with this pick.

There is also news that second round pick Calvin Mitchell was reportedly signing today. He is one we haven’t heard about before. Expect a mass announcement, as we have heard that numerous players either signed today, or they are signing tomorrow. Pirate City cleared out the players heading to Bristol this season on Monday to make room for the drafted players coming in, who will eventually head to one of the three short-season clubs. So we could hear around 20 names when the Pirates finally make an announcement, usually in the form of a press release.

With ten college seniors chosen in the draft, that’s a good number of them right there. Among non-seniors, fifth round pick Deon Stafford, sixth rounder Cody Bolton, 19th rounder Jake Webb, 21st rounder Robbie Glendinning, 22nd rounder Brett Pope and 23rd rounder Ben Bengtston are all signing, so there are another six names. Plus early prep picks Steven Jennings and Conner Uselton both seemed likely to sign soon, though they might not be among the first group announced.

Full draft tracker can be found here. We will be updating it as soon as all these names become official.

UPDATE 9:00 AM: Fifth round pick Deon Stafford signed his contract this morning

Bligh Madris signed last night. He was the ninth round pick. We should hear some bonus information today as well. Keep checking back here, although if any of the high upside prep players are signed today, we will probably start a new article.

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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