re: Official MLB Draft Thread OVER (Neal to LSU!)

Rangers may be planning to use a lot of that excess on Brock Porter. That would be nice.

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Kumars 5.2M

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So they signed him for 2.39 million under slot.

So as of right now we have 15 high school commits, kind of scared for today though yesterday was expected

So we didn't lose anyone we thought would stay; and the reality is we probably only have a round or two before kids start putting out messages on Twitter.

Lets see how the day goes. Around 1 o'clock I'm gonna be real unproductive.

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Around 1 o'clock I'm gonna be real unproductive.

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You and me both

No draft is the same, obviously, but between the 5th Rd & the 10th rd last year, only 13 high school players were selected. These are their signing bonuses:


5.134: $850,000
5.143: $400,00
5.152: $857,000
5.155: $850,000

6.166 $197,00 (under slot)
6.175: $222,500 (under slot)

7.211: $1,000,000
7.212 $197,500 (under slot)
7.217: $997,500


8.228: $500,000
8.229: $208,500
8.247: $447,500

9.265: $247,500

10th: none

I'd think that makes it interesting for guys like Dugas & Jobert.

It depends on the org. Some orgs are better at scouting under the radar guys and better at developing them. The orgs that look at UDFAs as filler aren't going to pay them $125k. But the orgs that try to get value at every opportunity might. The Yankees are a club that I could see spending a decent amount on UDFA pitchers.

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It depends on the org. Some orgs are better at scouting under the radar guys and better at developing them. The orgs that look at UDFAs as filler aren't going to pay them $125k. But the orgs that try to get value at every opportunity might. The Yankees are a club that I could see spending a decent amount on UDFA pitchers.

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Yeah, I can see that side of it, for sure. But knowing that teams can't go too crazy with the money, because it would count against their pool, it doesn't seem like there would be huge bidding wars, so any player willing to sign a UDFA deal would probably have signed no matter what. I would think that any UDFA actually getting a deal north of $100k would be the exception rather than the norm.

But I'm probably overlooking something, anyway. This process is fun, but extremely exhausting.

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It would be.

But, with the draft being shorter there could be more competition to sign the UDFAs that would have gone from round 21-40 that teams were still found valuable. That will drive the price up on some guys. While they'll still be in the minority of overall UDFAs, it will be more guys getting that money than there were in the 40+ round years.

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I agree with that. The point I'm trying to make, and I didn't really articulate especially well, is that I'm more curious to see if, instead of seeing a run on college seniors to sign underslot in order to make room for high upside signings, will we see teams be more aggressive with the fringe guys, and knock a lot of those college seniors out of the draft where they can go after them for less money as UDFA's than they would perhaps have to pay for a junior who has some leverage.

It just seems like, if teams are really interested enough to pay that much for a UDFA, they'd just assume draft them, because they don't pay college seniors very much, even when they draft them in the top 10 rounds.