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2015 Draft

Edgy MD Feb 09 2015 08:39 AM

With James Shields signing, the last compensation-attached free agent is off the board, which sets the final 2015 draft order. Mets pick an un-inspiring 53rd and 88th in the top 100 of the 2015 draft. The old way of making up for that would be to try and drop in the foreign market the money you would've spent in the early rounds of the draft, but spending on foreign bonuses has grown more restricted as well. The third way has seemingly been grabbing young, recently drafted talent in the dumpoffs off veteran talent (Davis, Buck, Byrd, Dickey), sometimes by sending a little unspent bonus $$ along. I guess another back door is using later rounds to grab early round talent who slipped back due to presumed college commitments, and seducing them out of school with bonuses well over slot.

Nymr83 Feb 10 2015 07:40 AM Re: 2015 Draft

A few things stand out: -Cuddyer wasn't worth giving up that pick, even if the money wasnt so terrible -Astros pick 2nd for stiffing Brady Aiken? what a fucking joke. I get that they arent going to overhaul the entire draft system, but if they are going to sit here and have slot payments which you are punished for going over and then give compensation picks for unsigned players there needs to be a rule that if you DONT offer a player at least the "slot" payment then you dont get compensation when he doesnt sign. or better yet, you cant draft a guy if you are unwilling to offer him "slot".

Edgy MD Feb 10 2015 08:58 AM Re: 2015 Draft

I'm not gonna sweat it. Here are the #15 overall picks from 1991–2000: Year Drafting Team Player HiLv Bonus WAR 1991 MIL Tyrone Hill AA ?? 0.0 1992 SLN Sean Lowe MLB ?? 1.7 1993 TOR Chris Carpenter MLB $0.6 million 34.6 1994 CHN Jayson Peterson A+ $0.7 million 0.0 1995 BOS Andy Yount A+ $1.0 million 0.0 1996 SDN Matt Halloran AA $1.0 million 0.0 1997 CHA Jason Dellaero MLB $1.1 million -0.9 1998 PIT Clint Johnston AA $1.0 million 0.0 1999 CHA Jason Stumm AA $1.8 million 0.0 2000 PHI Chase Utley MLB $1.8 million 61.5 The average number of WAR you're getting from those picks is 9.69. While that may be more than you expect out of Cuddyer over two years (it's more than I expect), that's spread out over a lot more years than two. Beyond that, if you move past the average, you're getting a median return of zero WAR. Beyond that, there are other ways to spend the bonus money that would have gone to Johnny 15.