A little late, but a new bargaining agreement draft question

With the lack of leverage players now have, teams will take them in a spot commensurate with their talent level, offer in the neighborhood of slot (which will be ~50% higher than last years), and if the guy still decides to play in college the draft pick is is protected for an additional year compared to the past system.

Every real argument against the new system always starts with the assumption that there are going to be a significant number of guys who drop for signability reasons. I simply don’t see any reason to assume that will be the case. The big market teams may be more than willing to pay the 100% tax and give up multiple first rounders (though I don’t think they will be nearly as interested in doing so as you assume), but it only really matters if their is still talent available worth that sort of penalty. I just don’t see any reason to think that will be the case.

If John Doe shortstop was taken in the fifth round, it’s stupid to give him first round money.

If he was good enough to go in the first round, he would have.

It makes no financial sense, for a high revenue team or low revenue team, to exceed the cap for a fourth rounder by 1000% and have him spend six years in the system and never get above AA.

If a fifth rounder becomes an All-Star, that’s an accident, you don’t pay for accidents before they happen.

with having a draft system like hockey where teams retain a drafted players rights even if they attend college? This would ensure that players would be drafted based on talent level and not signability. HS players would have the same choice to go to the minors or go to college. One incentive for teams to get players into the minors instead of college would be if they signed and went to the minors, they would get their full bonus right away (like they currently do) or they only get say 5-10% if they go to college ($100,000-$200,000 for a $2 million signing bonus) and the rest is not guaranteed. They would get the rest of the bonus when they decide to turn pro and join the minors. Teams would not be required to pay the rest of the bonus in the event of an injury (the same risk you take going to college) but would have to pay even if the player’s performance declined, but were injury free (the same risk they take now if players stall out in the minors)

I’m not sure if this has been discussed in the past, but it seems to make some sense to me

You’ve done nothing in your life.

When he signed, Strasburg was the fourth highest paid player in the Nationals organization, and the ink hadn’t dried on his contract yet.

That is so bleeping stupid it’s unfathomable.

“Here you go, college boy, two million, take it or leave it.”

“You can take it and become a professional baseball player, or you can turn it down and become Matt Harrington..your choice.”

“Either way, I don’t give a crap, because either I have you or the second pick in next year’s draft, who likely will either be better or smarter than you.”

“Peace out.”

was $6.25 million, which was fifty percent over the $4 million recommended slot.

In the same draft, Washington gave AJ Cole $2 million as the first pick of the fourth round, which was about 900% over the recommended slot of $258K, a ridiculous amount which has now been compounded by the fact Cole just got traded.

This is what the new CBA will do, it doesn’t eliminate the top talent from getting paid, it helps keep lesser talent from being overpaid.

If he was good enough to be drafted higher, he would have been.

None of the other 29 teams bit on him either.

The threat of a high schooler going to college is an empty one, because they are committing to three years, unless they transfer out to a JC.

As good as the new CBA is, I think the best part is it takes away the need for guys like Boras, because he no longer has any power.