Two high school baseball standouts from Michigan are now officially professional ballplayers.

Dante Nori, an outfielder from Northville High School who was taken in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft with the 27th overall pick by the Philadelphia Phillies, has signed for a $2.5 million bonus. He had been committed to playing collegiately at Mississippi State.

Caleb Bonemer, a shortstop from Okemos High School who was taken in the second round with the 43rd overall pick by the Chicago White Sox, has signed for a $3 million bonus. He had been committed to Virginia.

Nori’s bonus was below the slot recommended value of $3.23 million, while Bonemer’s was above the $2.17 million.

Nori, 19, is a friend of Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber, who played for Nori’s grandfather, Fred, at the University of Indiana. Nori projects as a center fielder, and Phillies assistant general manager Brian Barber called him “the total package” when discussing the draft with reporters last week.

“It’s cool,” Schwarber told the Philadelphia Inquirer, of seeing Nori drafted by his team. “I’ve been around him a lot, and you see the work he’s put in. It’s cool seeing him mature and get his opportunity now. And it’s going to be cool to see what he does with it. What he takes with it. And I’ll be there to help along the way, whatever he needs help with, but at the end of the day, this is going to be his career.”

Nori’s father, Micah Nori, is an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA.

Bonemer, 18, is a two-time winner of Michigan’s Gatorade player of the year award, and the White Sox like him to stick at shortstop as he projects through their system, Mike Shirley, the White Sox director of amateur scouting, told reporters last week.

“I’m super excited to get this opportunity to play professional baseball,” Bonemer, who grew up a pretty avid Tigers fan, told reporters on a Zoom call last week. “We’ve been a Tigers family being in Michigan so we kind of get a little bit of that AL Central, and I’ve been to a few White Sox games. It’s definitely pretty cool. I’m just looking forward to getting ready to go.”

Other local players to sign since the MLB Draft are right-hander Luke Thelen, 21, out of Western Michigan, who was taken in the 15th round by the Colorado Rockies and signed for $150,000, and right-hander Brandon Decker, 22, out of Oakland University, who was selected in the 19th round by the New York Yankees and signed for $50,000. Derek Clark, 22, a left-hander who began his collegiate career at Northwood University before finishing it at West Virginia, signed for $1,000 as a ninth-round pick by the Los Angeles Angels, according to MLB.com’s 2024 draft tracker.

Thelen is from Caledonia, Decker is from Farmington Hills and Clark is from Petersburg.

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