Evidently the new MLB CBA will move the deadline to sign from August to July, put a "drat tax" on teams, and not allow any draftees to receive "major"leaguedeals.. Should be great for college baseball..... Follow him on twitter<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">@KendallRogersPG ...</font></span>
Big college baseball news coming out today from Kendall Rogers
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And if this year is any indication HS players will have way more leverage than college players.
Teams are going to start low balling College juniors even more than before, which this past year they really started doing and this is going to do it even worse.
I think the end result is going to be, if you want a big signing bonus you are going to have to sign from HS.</p>
Teams are going to start low balling College juniors even more than before, which this past year they really started doing and this is going to do it even worse.
I think the end result is going to be, if you want a big signing bonus you are going to have to sign from HS.</p>
is we can take chances on say, a guy like Anthony Alford, and we have a chance to replace him if he goes pro. The old deadline meant if you lost a player, you couldn't really replace him because it was Aug. and pretty much time for school to start, and you were just screwed. College teams have had to basically take chances that their guys wouldn't go pro, and then sometimes a guy like Jacob Lindgren might get drafted higher than we thought he would be, and then we would have to worry about losing him.
What you might see happen is teams hitting the JUCO ranks hard late to try to fill those holes.
As far as the draft cap- to my understanding, teams can still spend whatever they want on draft picks, but there is a luxury tax for going over whatever the set limit is. What it will do is affect how teams draft players because if a guy is going to be hard to sign, they are likely to drop- which again is good for us. You will probably see more college juniors drafted higher than ever. At the same time, if a team wants a guy like, say a Stephen Strasburg, and wants to pay him 20 million dollars- they still have that right if they want to.
What I read on MLB.com didn't refer to "major league" deals, but what I think Rogers is referring to is this- some of the high profile players can sign a MLB contract and what that does is guarantees them a spot on the 40 man roster. That's a big deal because that means that the player is guaranteed to go to the big league camp in spring training no matter what their experience level is. Todd Van Poppel was the first guy to do this back with the A's in 1991. It affects how teams manage their roster- of course guys like Van Poppel are going to be the first to be cut, but he would get to go back to Big League camp again the next year. It's a pretty rare thing for a guy to sign a MLB contract, though.
It's good to see MLB helping college baseball out for a change. There is still so much more than could be done- I would really love to see MLB start having organized clinics for college coaches- espeically on pitching. They ***** about college coaches not knowing what they are doing when it comes to pitchers, but yet they do nothing about it! I would be willing to bet that most of these college coaches would be very open to going to clinics if you get guys like Dave Duncan, Don Cooper, Mel Stottlemyre, Nolan Ryan, Mike Maddux and etc. to speak at them.
What you might see happen is teams hitting the JUCO ranks hard late to try to fill those holes.
As far as the draft cap- to my understanding, teams can still spend whatever they want on draft picks, but there is a luxury tax for going over whatever the set limit is. What it will do is affect how teams draft players because if a guy is going to be hard to sign, they are likely to drop- which again is good for us. You will probably see more college juniors drafted higher than ever. At the same time, if a team wants a guy like, say a Stephen Strasburg, and wants to pay him 20 million dollars- they still have that right if they want to.
What I read on MLB.com didn't refer to "major league" deals, but what I think Rogers is referring to is this- some of the high profile players can sign a MLB contract and what that does is guarantees them a spot on the 40 man roster. That's a big deal because that means that the player is guaranteed to go to the big league camp in spring training no matter what their experience level is. Todd Van Poppel was the first guy to do this back with the A's in 1991. It affects how teams manage their roster- of course guys like Van Poppel are going to be the first to be cut, but he would get to go back to Big League camp again the next year. It's a pretty rare thing for a guy to sign a MLB contract, though.
It's good to see MLB helping college baseball out for a change. There is still so much more than could be done- I would really love to see MLB start having organized clinics for college coaches- espeically on pitching. They ***** about college coaches not knowing what they are doing when it comes to pitchers, but yet they do nothing about it! I would be willing to bet that most of these college coaches would be very open to going to clinics if you get guys like Dave Duncan, Don Cooper, Mel Stottlemyre, Nolan Ryan, Mike Maddux and etc. to speak at them.
From ESPN:
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This is going to kill any and all leverage of college players. I see MLB teams drafting college players in the 4th or 5th round and offering 75K and then offering bigger deals to their HS picks. They will tell the college player, go ahead go back to school, risk injury and when you get drafted next year you will signfor 50K or you can go play in St. Paul.
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If teams will lose draft picks, this may be a harder cap than I originally thought.A tax is one thing, losing draft picks is another. This is good news for Ole Miss as our 2012 class has several highly ranked baseball recruits that I didn't think we had a chance in hell of signing. Now they may still sign, but at least now we have a shot.
This is going to kill any and all leverage of college players. I see MLB teams drafting college players in the 4th or 5th round and offering 75K and then offering bigger deals to their HS picks. They will tell the college player, go ahead go back to school, risk injury and when you get drafted next year you will signfor 50K or you can go play in St. Paul.