Diamondbacks, No. 1 pick Dansby Swanson agree to terms minutes before deadline

Well, that was close. 

All players selected during the 2015 MLB Draft had to be signed by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, or the teams would lose their rights to those players and they'd go back into the pool for future drafts. As the clock rolled toward that deadline, No. 1 pick Dansby Swanson remained unsigned. 

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At 5:02 p.m., the Diamondbacks sent out the tweet Arizona fans had been waiting to see all day.

OFFICIAL: #Dbacks agree to terms with shortstop Dansby Swanson, the first-overall selection in the 2015 @MLB Draft. pic.twitter.com/7SXsy5DIU5

— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) July 17, 2015

Apparently it took them a few minutes to get to Twitter. Just to make the fans in Arizona sweat a bit more? 

Industry source reports Dansby Swanson done to the #Diamondbacks at $6.5 million. That was too close! No. 1 overall pick signs

— John Manuel (@johnmanuelba) July 17, 2015

The assigned slot value for the No. 1 pick was $8.6 million.