2006 Signing Bonuses -- Top Ten Rounds

[Mass Haas]

While Baseball America makes you pay for the info, Perfect Game provides the signing bonus info for the Top Ten Rounds free of charge:

 

www.pgcrosschecker.com/dr...nuses.aspx

 

1. Jeffress: $1,550,000

2. Brewer: $600,000

3. Gillespie: $417,500

4. Anundsen: $282,000

5. Errecart: $166,000

6. Wright: $31,500

7. Bouchie: $115,000

8. Hill: $145,000

9. Ferguson: $10,000

10. McClendon: $60,000

[mothershipconnection]

149 &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Cubs &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Jeff Samardzija &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp RHP &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp $7,250,000.

What a stupid organization. a 3.82 ERA and 4.33 this season and you pay the kid that much money?

It looks as if the bonus is only $250K if he doesn't give up football next year, but why in the world would you pay this guy that much money regarldless of whether you're trying to lure him into baseball.

 

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Then those idiots went out and signed an 11th rounder who already had Tommy John surgery and pitched 5 innings this year to a $1.1Million contract.

 

 

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This is gonna be funny.

[JohnBriggs12]

"why would you pay the kid that much money?"

 

A. They have the money

 

B. He had a lot of leverage. He is the star wide receiver on the highest profile college football team in the country which also happens to be the consensus number 1 team in the country.

 

After 5 outings in the Northwest League, he's already up to the Midwest League, so there is some talent there.

[JoeH33]

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6. Wright: $31,500

7. Bouchie: $115,000

8. Hill: $145,000

9. Ferguson: $10,000

10. McClendon: $60,000

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I'm just curious why some guys got larger bonuses than the player picked in the round before them.

[Bambis Bombers]

What's up with the Nats with seven unsigned picks in the first ten rounds? Everyone talked up the quality of their draft, but you kinda need to sign them to contracts before they do you any good.

[dadofandrew]

I assume the lower bonus guys were out of college eligibility. They only have indy ball as negotiating leverage, which means they basically have no leverage at all.

[colbyjack]

Slot value is based on talent and signability. Players that sign for less than slot value typically aren't worthy to be selected where they were. Players that sign for more than slot value have a higher price tag and dropped further than they should, or at least further than where the player in question wanted to be taken (based on money typically). In Brae Wright's case, he has some personal issues in his past (check the draft forum for his profile), and in Shane Hill's, the Brewers had to buy him away from his college commitment.

 

When the team claims they take the best available player at all times, that is only half-true, because the money involved with the signing bonuses plays a huge part of who is taken where.

 

As for Samardijza, he's an extremely athletic and talented kid as noted, but the Cubs are taking a big, big risk on him for that kind of money, and they're letting him play football in the fall.