Reply to "D2 Undrafted"

@RJM posted:

Slot money only goes to round ten. 84% of American born MLB’ers were drafted in the first ten rounds. Another 10% (making 94%) are from the first twenty rounds.

Players drafted in the first ten rounds are the prospects. Players drafted in rounds 11-20 are quality suspects and Single A roster filler. The exception would be the top prospect high school player taken late who is a long shot to sign. Anyone who was drafted after round twenty was a suspect and roster filler.

Cutting the draft to twenty rounds helps the suspects (your sample D2 player). They can sign as a free agent in organizations where they believe they have the best long shot to make it.

Secondly, depending on the teams signing strategy rounds 6 thru 10 are used to select players with no remaining eligibility, thus offer them a bonus to buy a new phone.

For example, the Angels signed the 9th and10th round picks for 7.5k  for where  slot values 1.62k and1.52k respectively.

Subsequent picks 11 thru 20 received the following