The financial tumblers are quickly falling into place for the Mariners’ 2017 draft class.
Scouting director Scott Hunter said nine of the club’s top 10 picks already have their travel papers for next week’s minicamp in Arizona, including first baseman Evan White, the club’s first-round pick from Kentucky.
The lone exception is second-round pick Sam Carlson, a prep right-hander from Minnesota. The holdup there, apparently, doesn’t involve dollars but merely the fact that Carlson’s season isn’t yet over.
"At this point," Hunter said, "I’m pretty confident everybody we drafted up until the later rounds, there’s only four or five guys who may take a little time.