Recruiting Article Mason Ronan article
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TKS Jim for writing this wonderful article on other future student athlete s coming to Pitt!!!! Its been awhile .... ( no swipe at Chris ) It hope this continues down the road...it's great to know these young men/women who are signing up with our university and watch them grow into productive members of society!!! Belated welcome to you from an old fan!!! HTP/Forever!!!
I just hope he makes it to campus. He’s one of the best LHP in the draft, probably 20-40th ranked among lefties(including college). He is probably a 50/50 guy because all it takes is one team to fall in love, and the expanded bonus allowed free of the pools after round 10 definitely gives teams an edge to sign more of these good prep players.
Huh? There is no expanded pool of money for players drafted after the 10th round. If a team signs a guy drafted after the 10th round for more than the amount set by MLB that amount of money counts against their pool of money. For instance if the Pirates drafted this kid in the 11th round and paid him a $250,000 bonus they'd have to account for the amount over the maximum (it's somewhere around $125,000) allowed for a person drafted after the 10th round out of their pool of money.
Based on what has happened since they went to the current bonus pool system, if a high school player gets drafted in the first 10 rounds you ought to assume that he is going to sign. Last year all but two or three high school guys drafted in the first 10 rounds signed. It was the same the season before. For guys drafted after the 10th round the signing rate is closer to 50%.
There’s now an extra $25k in the allowed pre bonus pool amount starting with last year...it’s an extra 25k for teams to work with and had an effect last year because even if Ronan takes more than 125k, other guys can sign for 125k and not hurt the pool where they would have counted against the pool in the past. You draft 4 guys like that and suddenly you have an extra 4 X 25k plus the 25k for Ronan for an extra 125k in addition to his already allowed 125k.
Definitely works in teams favors and had a small impact last year
Actually he probably doesn’t go in the top 10 rounds. Not about his talent, but about the quirks of the MLB Draft. Teams use the first 5-7 rounds to grab best players they can. Then they use the rest of the top 10 rounds to mix in guys who will sign for slot and underslot amounts to make the bonus pools work around those top guys.
As weird as this sounds a player drafted in the 11th round is typically a better prospect than the players drafted in rounds 8, 9, and 10. And teams are typically able to pay a player drafted in round 11 more money because that first 125k doesn’t count against their pool
A lot of teams will draft a couple college seniors in those rounds, because those guys have no leverage at all. If they want to play pro ball they have to sign. So teams draft them and then offer then a bonus of $10,000 or $20,000 and the guy takes it because it's better than nothing. And the team can use the rest of their slot value to sign other picks.
Agree with the draft strategy you laid out. I agree teams do that to try and use Bonus money on players they are higher on.
But if this kid is rated 20-40 in LHPs for all draft eligible kids, he might end up going higher than expected.
Regardless, for Pitt's sake, hoping he gets to school.
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