whats with this stupid budget thing, makes no sense
it penalizes teams for drafting the best available players
2012 MLB Amateur Draft Thread
- Thread starter FreshAIG
- Start date
whats with this stupid budget thing, makes no sense
it penalizes teams for drafting the best available players
it used to be almost 100 rounds
It's in the new CBA, all of the teams hate it. Usually MLB assigned a value to the pick but you could sign the player for whatever you wanted. This year they have a total budget for the first 10 rounds (adding up the value of all of those picks) that you cannot exceed without penalties (taxes or loss of picks)
For example heres the Cubs (taken off prosportsdaily)
CUBS' BONUS POOL
Pick No. Pick Value
01 006 $3,250,000
02 043 $1,196,000
03 056 $911,700
04 067 $769,600
05 101 $471,900
06 134 $343,200
07 164 $257,000
08 194 $192,500
09 224 $148,600
10 254 $138,800
11 284 $129,600
12 314 $125,000
TOTAL $7,933,900
AVG. $661,158
MLB RANK* 8th
So the Cubs can only spend 7.9 million on their first 10 picks without facing a penalty
Lucas Giolito to the Mets please.
FreedS[ohh]lave
Banned
Anyone know some of the top names in next years draft?
Not mad at the Mets pick, but man, I hope the dude Giolito isn't some beast of a pitcher.
K-O-B
Management
A defensive SS, just what the Sox needed... 
Great, the Mets drafted the next David Eckstein
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Let's go Yankees, don't botch this pick
Great, the Mets drafted the next David Eckstein
I'm gonna have to trust Sandy and them boyz on this.