Charting The Slots

Posted Aug. 18, 2011 8:37 pm by Jim Callis
Filed under: Signings

We've broken down how the 50 highest bonuses in the 2011 draft stack up against MLB's top 50 slot recommendations, as well as how each team did in the first 10 rounds spending money versus their estimated slot allowance. The complete charts are available to subscribers here, and we give everyone a brief taste below.

 

TOP 50 BONUSES VS. TOP 50 SLOTS
MLB's slot recommendations are lower than they were in 2006, and the below chart shows how out of touch the current guidelines are with reality. We've lined up the 50 highest bonuses in the draft against the top 50 slots (to clarify, those are the first 50 slots in the draft, not the corresponding slots for each player). The bonuses total $120.5 million, 72 percent above the slot total of $70 million. Teams paid out 24 bonuses of $2 million or more, compared to just eight slots worth that much.
Rk Player, Pos, Team (Round/Overall) Bonus Slot
1 Gerrit Cole, rhp, Pit (1st round/No. 1) $8,000,000 $4,000,000
2 Bubba Starling, of, KC (1st round/No. 5) $7,500,000 $3,250,000
3 Danny Hultzen, lhp, Sea (1st round/No. 2) $6,350,000 $3,000,000

 

SPENDING VS. SLOTS
How much money each team spent in the first 10 rounds of the 2011 draft, and how that compares to its estimated slot allowance in those rounds from the commissioner's office:
Team Picks Signed Bonus Total Slot Total Slot Spent
Pirates 10 10 $16,445,700 $6,134,200 268%
Royals 10 9 $11,405,000 $4,579,500 249%
Nationals 11 11 $14,551,100 $6,005,100 242%
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by choosing the top 50 bonuses, the sample is biased; shouldn't it be mrely based on the top X (such as 50) picks, compared to bonuses at those slots?

 Posted by Tom Hanrahan | November 1, 2011 at 12:41 pm | Shortcut

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