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So I live in Kansas City and have become a big Royals fan and I think them passing on Rocker and picking a kid from a low level Connecticut high school over him is the most unbelievable thing I could think of…of course better for Kumar because the Royals are going to lose 100 games for each of the last three full seasons.


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Jay Allen is another Florida commit at 31.
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Versus75 wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 7:57 pm
Non VU note: I cannot imagine Kevin Kopps of Arkansas NOT being selected within the first 250 choices, but then I'm not an MLB general manager.
Just because he had one lightning in a bottle college season and college kids couldn't hit him for one season, the pro scouts must have seen something that gave them pause about pro players hitting him. And the guy is like 25 years old already? Something like that?
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Baez didn’t get drafted on day 1. It would be nice to get him on campus.
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I read an interesting article on 2021 signing bonuses and NIL that could have an impact, especially on the draft-eligible sophomores. Bonuses are prorated, and they can only receive a maximum of $100,000 this year.

"In March 2020, MLB and the union agreed on a system for the 2020 and 2021 drafts in which teams stagger payments on signing bonuses. The maximum upfront signing-bonus payment is $100,000. Up to 50% of the remaining bonus is due July 1, 2022, and the rest July 1, 2023.

By then, players from the 2022 draft will have received their full signing bonuses. Whether that incentive is strong enough to sway players to return to college will be clear by Aug. 1, the signing deadline for 2021 draftees."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/318 ... sign-teams

For someone like CJ Rodriguez, if you could improve your stock enough to get more money next year, there is very little incentive to sign this year. They also mentioned some players being able to earn as much as $1 Million with NIL, but I haven't seen anything close to those numbers yet.
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Looks like Lawlar is the only recruit of our that went 1st round unless I'm missing somebody. He was top 10 so he'll be gone.

Not sure where the rest are expected to go. I'd like to think the NIL will help us out a bit more but realistically I wonder how much money a baseball player at Vandy is really going to attract.
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Starkiller wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:00 pm Baez didn’t get drafted on day 1. It would be nice to get him on campus.
Baez just went in the second round at # 52. Slot value $1.4 million.
Gonna be tough.
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commadore wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:53 pm
Starkiller wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:00 pm Baez didn’t get drafted on day 1. It would be nice to get him on campus.
Baez just went in the second round at # 52. Slot value $1.4 million.
Gonna be tough.
Yep. But hopefully he could be convinced that in 2 years he could get at least double that. Or maybe the Cardinals have problems with having to go over slot value on other picks and don’t have enough.

Either way, I’m not counting on him getting to campus, but we'll see…
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Michael Morales went #83 in the 3rd round to Seattle. $733K Slot value.
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katmai wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:25 pm Michael Morales went #83 in the 3rd round to Seattle. $733K Slot value.
Beat me to it! Ha.

Kopps from Arkansas went 93.
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Luke Murphy in Round 4, #110 overall to Anaheim. Much higher than anticipated.
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katmai wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:25 pm Michael Morales went #83 in the 3rd round to Seattle. $733K Slot value.
With the NIL options, a career at Vanderbilt could top $733k over 2 years.

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Versus75 wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:56 pm
katmai wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:25 pm Michael Morales went #83 in the 3rd round to Seattle. $733K Slot value.
With the NIL options, a career at Vanderbilt could top $733k over 2 years.

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Especially with the $100,000 first year limit this year.
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CJ Rodriguez 158 to the A's. Slot value $330,100.
We need to find him a good local contract for the year!
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CJ Rodriguez to the Athletics at #158, also higher than anticipated. Decision time for CJ and Max Romero Jr.
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Surprised IT hasn't gone off the board yet....
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Keagan was supposed to be our 3rd highest rated player. I am guessing the swing and miss factor and the fact he couldn't hit his weight in the tourney hurt his draft status.
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I heard on the MLB draft broadcast that Rocker has already signed for $6 Million, which is above his slot of $4.74 Million. Congrats to Kumar.
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That would be great for him! In the long run, he has the body that could last a lot longer than Leiter.
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katmai wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:55 pm I heard on the MLB draft broadcast that Rocker has already signed for $6 Million, which is above his slot of $4.74 Million. Congrats to Kumar.
Where is it now being broadcast. The MLB network went to something else.
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