Dodgers sign first-round pick Holmes

LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have signed Grant Holmes, their first-round pick in this year's First-Year Player Draft, for a $2.5 million bonus.

The Dodgers had $1,980,500 designated for their first-round pick.

Holmes, 18, a right-handed pitcher drafted out of Conway (S.C.) High School, visited Dodger Stadium on Monday and said he was a physical away from signing. The No. 22 pick overall, Holmes went 4-1 with a 0.35 ERA, striking out 82 batters in 40 innings in his senior season, winning Gatorade's South Carolina Player of the Year.

Holmes signed at Camelback Ranch in Arizona.