To much risk for the players with getting hurt imo. You would have most of the top 100 players not participating which lessens the benefit of the league.

 

The one thing that I don't understand is why doesn't the draft take place after the final game of the CWS. I am surprised they didn't move things around when they adjusted the signing day a few years ago.

I agree that you will have boycotts, but you will be able to bring in a lot of players to participate.  Think of it as a Cape Cod League on steriods.

 

You control injuries with significant pitch limits and load the pitching staffs up with a lot of pitchers to keep these overall pitch limits, but still play a substantial amount of innings and the hitters substantial levels of PA's.  

 

Think about my example of BJ Garbe in 1999.  He was the 5th player picked and got a $2.75 million bonus.  Our 3rd round pick was Justin Mourneau.  If a guy like Mourneau goes to the short season draft league and smashes the ball against draft level competition, he shoots up the draft board past guys who held out,  The same money is paid out to the draft picks, but Mourneau gets the money and Garbe does not.  

There are a lot of MLB draft millionaires out there who never played a single game in the Major Leagues.

 

NHL has a much better system with the Entry Level Contract, <1 million per for 3 years, no negotiations.

 

The bonuses in MLB are absurd/obscene.

Rooker isn't actually a senior but a red shirted junior so he is older.

I came away thinking the same thing though about drafting the 3 seniors in rds 8-10. But perhaps collectively they allow the team to land one of the higher priced lottery tickets they took in the later rounds

So can a team take a low ranked college senior in the first round sign them cheap and use the money to sign all the sliders. 

 

Was just looking at the size of the bonus pools for the Al Central:

 

Minnesota has 14.1 million.

Cleveland - 3.8

Chicago - 7.9

Detroit - 6.5

Kansas City - 8

 

Had no idea there was that much divergence. 

 

St. Louis has a mere 2.1 million, about what the Twins 3rd rounder will get.

 

It will be interesting to see if this leads to some sort of competitive balance down the road.

St. Louis doesn't have a first round pick and lost 2 picks for the Astros hack.

 

Hey, identify the Twins draft pick with a College World Series championship ring...

 

Hmmm...

So can a team take a low ranked college senior in the first round sign them cheap and use the money to sign all the sliders. 

Yes.

 

So can a team take a low ranked college senior in the first round sign them cheap and use the money to sign all the sliders. 

 

Yes, but that's super risky. Why not just take the one guy you really like?

 

It looks like the Yankees may have tried something like that this year, but it's hard to tell exactly what they were thinking.

Will someone be posting a list of all the draftees and when they sign, for what, or when they decline?

 

Will someone be posting a list of all the draftees and when they sign, for what, or when they decline?

That will be here.