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Reply to "When discussing Draft....What is Leverage"

It's easy to agree with every post on this thread. Leverage is a multifaceted animal. Another way to look at it is the MLB club is making a calculated decision on whether to draft you if they really like you and you fill a need. Many things come into that decision, one of which is the opportunity cost for the MLB team, in my opinion. If the cost of passing up on drafting a player is unacceptable to a team, then that player has leverage. So, I think someone on here said it already, the only real leverage you have is being a beast.  If you are a beast as a Junior and you get passed by in the draft, you never really had leverage. The option to return to school for a Junior (in the case of age-eligible sophomores) and Senior (for Juniors) season is only leveraged if you have many suitors and clubs are competing for you, in my opinion. If you only have one club seriously interested, your leverage is negligible at best.

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