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On the Bright Side: 2023 MLB Draft


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Tork still has the biggest bonus under the current system $8,416,300.

Bonus pools by club:
Pirates: $16,185,700
Tigers: $15,747,200 (they can go to 105% without penalty; an extra $787,360; $16,534,560 total)
Nationals: $14,502,400

1. Pirates: $9,721,000
2. Nationals: $8,998,500
3. Tigers: $8,341,700
4. Rangers: $7,698,000
5. Twins: $7,139,700

Offer Crews $9M (basically 2nd pick money) and he will take it.

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1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said:

Tork still has the biggest bonus under the current system $8,416,300.

Bonus pools by club:
Pirates: $16,185,700
Tigers: $15,747,200 (they can go to 105% without penalty; an extra $787,360; $16,534,560 total)
Nationals: $14,502,400

1. Pirates: $9,721,000
2. Nationals: $8,998,500
3. Tigers: $8,341,700
4. Rangers: $7,698,000
5. Twins: $7,139,700

Offer Crews $9M (basically 2nd pick money) and he will take it.

The extra $787K penalty is a difference maker that should help woo a high schooler in a later round.

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21 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

 

 

Then again, Crews is a Boras client. The Tigers seem to have a good enough relationship with Boras in general,  but even given that, you can not ignore that with Boras, if a young player does turn out to be good, someone you are going to want to lock up long term, the chances are going to be a lot worse of achieving that if he's a Boras client.

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Hard to really say Harris was the guy making the call in those drafts though... Zaidi was running the show. You can probably get some clue from Metzler/Conner and their histories.

But looking at pool strategy is going to give you a bit more clue than demographics of who happened to fall to them in the first roudn.

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I have read more than one report that says that Clark and Jenkins may have the highest upside of any players in the draft and I believe it was Law who said if he had to pick one player from the class to win multiple MVPs it would be Clark so in the end those two very well may end up being the best of the bunch but with that said I still would much prefer having the closer and more sure thing in Crews/Langford even if the upside isn't as high.

If we were in the Rangers shoes who are picking 4th where we already have a stacked roster and should be competitive for the foreseeable future I may be more open to taking a chance on the younger potentially higher upside pick but we're certainly not in that position. 

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I will never understand why teams are so worried about potentially getting guys with picks at 37 and 45 when history has shown that just a tiny fraction of them amount to anything anyway. To me it's a no brainer, you do what it takes to sign the number 1 prospect in the draft, if it means that you in turn have to take a lesser prospect with 37 and 45 who gives a crap. Basically I'd rather take the lesser player in rounds 2 and 3 than the lesser one in round 1, especially when the consensus shows that there is a clear tier difference between said prospects. 

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4 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

I will never understand why teams are so worried about potentially getting guys with picks at 37 and 45 when history has shown that just a tiny fraction of them amount to anything anyway. To me it's a no brainer, you do what it takes to sign the number 1 prospect in the draft, if it means that you in turn have to take a lesser prospect with 37 and 45 who gives a crap. Basically I'd rather take the lesser player in rounds 2 and 3 than the lesser one in round 1, especially when the consensus shows that there is a clear tier difference between said prospects. 

 

Well, if you have some guys in mind with numbers and you have to blow past your #1 slot to sign Crews, it can blow the rest of your draft up and potentially risk going over the 5% overage limit if you aren't careful. In short, those concerns are more about making sure your whole draft doesn't blow up and end up losing next year's #1 pick.

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