Blue Jays’ talks with Martin are scheduled to begin with Torkelson

TORONTO – Talks between the Toronto Blue Jays and first division team Austin Martin are expected to resume after Spencer Torkelson signed a record deal with the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday.

Both players are advisors to the powerful agent Scott Boras, who landed Torkelson, the Arizona state brawler, on a $ 8,418,800 deal slightly above the allotted value of the first total.

Martin, the versatile Vanderbilt star who was selected as the shortstop, should finish second overall after the Baltimore Orioles, but instead slipped to 5th place in the Blue Jays with an assigned value of $ 6,180,700. The sites are believed to be making progress, but the work remains.

Boras will likely be looking for more than one slot and the Blue Jays have an additional $ 239,300 bonus pool, even after they offered CJ Van Eyk from round two and Trent Palmer from round two a little more than the slot, thanks to one Bonus of $ 97,500 for the fifth. All-rounder Zach Britton. That was way below slot # 136 at $ 410,100.

Quarter-finalist Nick Frasso, a right-hander from Loyola Marymount, who was closed for part of the spring with elbow constriction, is also unsigned and his choice has an assigned value of $ 549,000.

Teams that exceed their bonus pools are subject to penalties, each exceeding between 0 and 5 percent of the total bonus pool and being taxed at 75 percent. Exceeding more than five percent also leads to the loss of future draft picks.

The Blue Jays could exceed their $ 9,716,500 bonus pool by about $ 485,000 without losing any future selection. That amount would cost her a penalty of approximately $ 364,000.

The teams have until August 1st to sign their draft picks, but the Blue Jays have kept two spots open in their 60-man pool for the regular season, with the expectation that one of the spots will go to Martin .