Here are the day’s notable draft signings:
- The Yankees have signed 11th rounder Josh Rogers to a $485K deal, according to MLB.com’s Jim Callis (Twitter links). Devan Fink was first on the precise dollar value. Rogers, a lefty out of Louisville, placed inside Baseball America’s top 500 list at #342. To sign the draft-eligible sophomore, New York was forced to commit $385K against its overall pool. (For players taken in the 11th round or later, the amount of any bonus over $100K counts against a team’s draft allocation.) Per another Callis tweet, that leaves the club capable of paying first-round pick James Kaprielian up to a $2,676,450 bonus before it would be forced to sacrifice a future selection.
no way i would sign for a $100k bonus and then make $8k a year
You’d really hate to be a late rounder then where they hand out hotel soaps and Andes mints for bonuses on top of that 8k
Bonuses have grown immensely. A friend of mine was taken in the 10th round by the Mets in 1990. He was given 65k I believe and money for college.