Draft Slot Bonuses

Perfect Game list of draft bonuses for 1st ten rounds

Thanks but that's only the first 10 rounds. I'm trying to find out where to find the amounts for all 50 rounds.

Well, the bonuses stop after a while, unless you had a kid who was considered "unsignable" get drafted late and then sign for high-round money.

But if you subscribe to Baseball America, you can look at their draft database on a round-by-round basis and get those numbers. Though they aren't complete yet, because August 15 has not yet gotten here.

I have never seen any Commissioner's office slot schedule for 2008, but my understanding is that it was allowed to creep up a tad from past years. But the cases of teams going "over slot" are increasing every year, too.

One thing I have heard that some folks may not be aware of... if a player and team agree to "higher than slot money" that bonus needs to be approved by the Commissioners Office.

Sounds like collusion to me.

The word on the street is that MLB doesn't care about a 20th rounder getting 5th round money. They care about the top picks establishing an unwanted precedent.

Each player decides their value, and it is up to them to agree.

2007 was under slot, 2008 got back on track.

MLB is pretty much in keeping slot bonus money to their liking first 10 rounds. After that they can pretty much do what they wish. Their overall wish is to give out as little as possible to the best talent available.

If you want to seriously play pro ball, sign, if money matters don't sign. Forget about the honor of being drafted. Does honor count if you do nothing with it? Think seriously from your heart. You have choices and they give you that freedom to make that choice.

This is one reason some highly sought after players work with Advisors/Agents, they have historical data and know what slot bonus money amounts are.

I think MLB put in slot bonus amounts in a few years back to try to control the raising signing bonus which were happening. Some clubs are hesitant to go out of slot money, one national scouting director told me that they wanted a player last year that they had drafted in a latter round due to signablity questions, he could have been drafted 1st round.

But when it came time to trying to negotiate the signing bonus, the ownership did not want to go to the commissioner for out of slot money dollars due to other things the organization was looking for from the commissioner’s office.

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Originally posted by fsmjunior:
One thing I have heard that some folks may not be aware of... if a player and team agree to "higher than slot money" that bonus needs to be approved by the Commissioners Office.

Sounds like collusion to me.

The Commissioners Office can't keep a team from signing a player to any bonus that team is willing to offer. MLB does have to be notified if a team intends to offer a bonus over slot recommendations (and there are penalties for not notifying the Commissioner's Office). The Commissioner's Office will then basically call ownership and explain to them the impending doom and gloom that would result from the overslot bonus. However, MLB has no means of forcing the team to stick to slot, and the team is free to then proceed with whatever bonus they want to offer. I have heard that MLB can and will threaten to take away consideration for a future all star game or something like that, but I don't know for sure.

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But if you subscribe to Baseball America, you can look at their draft database on a round-by-round basis and get those numbers. Though they aren't complete yet, because August 15 has not yet gotten here.

Unfortunately even with a subscription they still only list the bonus for the top 10 rounds.

I know a kid who signed this year. His contract took 3 weeks to get approved by MLB, while he sat around and threw bullpens in the NY Penn League. Signed for a whopping $100,000+. Here are the 1st 10 round$ in PG Crosschecker

MLB will do all it can to put off over slot signings. They do this to try to keep an over slot bonus that is signed early from setting the standard and driving other bonuses up. However, MLB ultimately has no ability to keep a team from offering and a player from accepting any bonus.

If you have a BaseballAmerica account you can check out last year's Bonuses Vs. Slots, 2006-07 for the top 5 rounds. It came out about this time last year and apparently was updated since August 15th is still a few weeks away.

We all know where to find the "Top 10 Round" signing bonus money info, but the question is where to find later round money? ( rounds 11 to 50)

Wow...the college seniors really get hosed compared to the juniors and HS kids.

Going under the slot value is apparently ok.

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Originally posted by JT:
Wow...the college seniors really get hosed compared to the juniors and HS kids.

No leverage left. (Someone pointed that out to me last year.)

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Originally posted by JT:
Wow...the college seniors really get hosed compared to the juniors and HS kids.

JT, that is not at all true if you look at it from the perspective of the owners. After all, they have about $6,000,000,000 of revenue per year and they need to protect it from the seniors scavenging all the profit.
plash3, there isn't any place to find bonuses paid to all players who are drafted and signed after the 10th round. Be assured though, the bonuses take a pretty steep decline from what you know.

crack,

There's a little on 4 bonuses for players picked after the 10th round here.

Obviously, these are extraordinary bonuses.