As part of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, teams are now assigned an aggregate signing bonus pool for their picks in the first 10 rounds of the draft. Each has a predetermined value, from $7.2 million for the No. 1 choice to $125,000 for pick No. 300 and any subsequent .
Raul Ibanez has agreed to a contract with the Yankees, all but finalizing the draft order. Derrek Lee is the lone potential compensation free agent remaining on the market, but he won't generate a compensation pick if he signs a minor league deal, as expected. Unless Lee gets a major league contract, the aggregate bonus pools below are set in stone.
The pools range from $12,368,200 for the Twins (who own the No. 2 choice and added three selections for the loss of free agents Michael Cuddyer and Jason Kubel) to $1,645,700 for the Angels (who forfeited their first two picks to sign free agents Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson). The sum of all the pools is $189,903,500, a slight reduction from the $191,876,250 clubs spent on the first 10 rounds of the loaded 2011 draft.
Any team that exceeds its bonus pool by 0-5 percent must pay a 75 percent tax on the overage. The penalties escalate, with a 75 percent tax and the loss of a first-round pick for a 5-10 percent overage; a 100 percent tax and the loss of first- and second-rounders for a 10-15 percent overage; and a 100 percent tax and the loss of two first-rounders for an overage of 15 percent or more.
Below are the bonus pools for each club, along with how much it spent last year on draft bonuses, both in the first 10 rounds and in total.
| Team | Picks | Bonus Pool | 2011/Top 10 | 2011/Total |
| Twins | 13 | $12,368,200 | $5,072,300 | $5,902,300 |
| Astros | 11 | $11,177,700 | $4,705,800 | $5,545,800 |
| Padres | 14 | $9,903,100 | $10,345,600 | $11,020,600 |
| Cardinals | 14 | $9,131,100 | $4,055,000 | $4,554,000 |
| Blue Jays | 14 | $8,830,800 | $8,990,000 | $10,996,500 |
| Athletics | 13 | $8,469,500 | $2,612,300 | $3,067,300 |
| Mariners | 11 | $8,223,400 | $9,840,000 | $11,330,500 |
| Cubs | 12 | $7,933,900 | $6,559,950 | $11,994,550 |
| Mets | 12 | $7,151,400 | $5,070,000 | $6,782,500 |
| Red Sox | 12 | $6,884,800 | $10,048,700 | $10,978,700 |
| Orioles | 10 | $6,826,900 | $7,282,400 | $8,432,100 |
| Brewers | 12 | $6,764,700 | $6,793,300 | $7,509,300 |
| Reds | 12 | $6,653,800 | $3,701,400 | $6,378,900 |
| Rockies | 12 | $6,628,300 | $3,709,900 | $3,967,900 |
| Rangers | 13 | $6,568,200 | $3,021,500 | $4,193,000 |
| Pirates | 11 | $6,563,500 | $16,445,700 | $17,005,700 |
| Royals | 10 | $6,101,500 | $11,405,000 | $14,066,000 |
| White Sox | 11 | $5,915,100 | $2,126,300 | $2,786,300 |
| Dodgers | 11 | $5,202,800 | $2,978,800 | $3,509,300 |
| Marlins | 10 | $4,935,100 | $3,655,000 | $4,135,000 |
| Phillies | 12 | $4,916,900 | $3,855,300 | $4,689,800 |
| Indians | 10 | $4,582,900 | $6,362,500 | $8,225,000 |
| Nationals | 10 | $4,436,200 | $14,551,100 | $15,002,100 |
| Yankees | 11 | $4,192,200 | $4,202,500 | $6,324,500 |
| Giants | 10 | $4,076,400 | $5,021,000 | $6,266,000 |
| Braves | 10 | $4,030,800 | $2,522,200 | $3,735,700 |
| Rays | 10 | $3,871,000 | $11,309,400 | $11,482,900 |
| Diamondbacks | 10 | $3,818,300 | $11,161,500 | $11,930,000 |
| Tigers | 9 | $2,099,300 | $1,815,200 | $2,878,700 |
| Angels | 8 | $1,645,700 | $2,656,600 | $3,318,100 |
| Total | 338 | $189,903,500 | $191,876,250 | $228,009,050 |
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Is there anywhere where the value is each pick is posted?
Posted by Alex Z | February 20, 2012 at 12:29 pm | ShortcutWell, that's just a flat-out disaster for small-market teams willing to spend for amateur talent, like the Pirates and Royals.
Posted by Vlad | February 20, 2012 at 12:34 pm | ShortcutDon't the Phillies pick up another comp pick today for Ibanez signing with the Yankees. Is this included in this calculation?
Posted by Squire | February 20, 2012 at 12:43 pm | Shortcut[...] Jim Callis of Baseball America has the breakdown on draft bonuses for 2012. The skinny: The Cubs will have just under $8M to spend overall. They spent $12M last year and about $6.5M of this money was spent in the first 10 rounds. The Cubs will have the 8th most amount of money to spend out of all the major league teams. The Twins have the most at $12M+. The White Sox have just under $6M and the team that seems to be hurt the most by all of this, the Tampa Bay Rays, have the 4th smallest pool at $3.87M. I'm not going to remind people about how I feel about how this system will do the opposite of what intended to do. I don't think it will help any team, big or small market, except those who didn't want to spend on the draft. [...]
Posted by Cubs News and Notes: Pitchers workouts, Draft bonus money, DeWitt, Samardzija, Marmol | Cubs Den | February 20, 2012 at 12:45 pm | Shortcut[...] Callis put together a listing of each team’s draft pool for the 2012 draft and the Mets have $7,151,400 million to spend. It is the ninth [...]
Posted by Mets Have $7.2 Million to Spend on Draft | Mini Mets Pipeline | February 20, 2012 at 2:17 pm | ShortcutJim, will you be putting up a chart for what each picks slotted dollar assignment is from round 1 through pick 300?
Posted by Nick | February 20, 2012 at 3:53 pm | ShortcutWikipedia already has the draft order for the 1st round. Both the Tigers and Angels lack a 1st round or a supplemental pick. The Diamondbacks have pick #26 for the 1st round and supplemental round.
Posted by Brian | February 21, 2012 at 1:12 am | ShortcutBased on the data above, I am assuming that a draft pick nearing the end of the 1st round (perhaps picks #25 – 30) are only worth around $1.8m. There is definitely a lot of spread between #1 overall and #26 overall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.....ball_Draft
Every year, there are two way ballplayers that are choosing between going to college and play both sports or take the dollars and go to play MLB. The only draw for baseball, was to pay way over slot to convince them to come to them. Now, no team will be able to do that and these guys will end up in college. On top of that, they face the real possibility of not only loosing the player coming to baseball now, but may loose them altogether to the NFL. It's the basic difference of being a baseball player or a football player. To play football, athleticism and little skill can carry you to a very large payday. To play baseball, you have to have a high level of athleticism AND a lot of skill for that same payday.
Posted by Munsonmanor | February 21, 2012 at 3:51 am | ShortcutWhat a terrible idea for MLB. It takes away one of the few ways small-market teams can compete for talent.
I hope Scott Boras sues and wins. He might. This system would seem to bring baseball's anti-trust exemption into question again by limiting the rights of high-school and college players who are not yet Property of MLB.
Posted by Blake | February 21, 2012 at 11:36 am | ShortcutAny chance there is a system in place to transfer alloted spendings to a different team? I say no way the Twins spend 12 mil on the draft.
Posted by Pat | February 22, 2012 at 8:31 pm | Shortcut[...] 2012 Aggregate Bonus Pools – Baseball America“The pools range from $12,368,200 for the Twins (who own the No. 2 choice and added three selections for the loss of free agents Michael Cuddyer and Jason Kubel) to $1,645,700 for the Angels (who forfeited their first two picks to sign free agents Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson).” [...]
Posted by AL Central Notes: Santana, Liriano, Antony, Castellanos, Fielder – – SportNewsX – Sport News AggregatorSportNewsX – Sport News Aggregator | March 1, 2012 at 9:39 am | Shortcut[...] plan wasn’t based on paying over-slot on all picks in the draft, which is good because there is now a draft bonus cap. It wasn’t based on making a big splash with international signings, either. That was the [...]
Posted by 2012 Organizational Rankings: #20 – New York Mets | FanGraphs Baseball | March 29, 2012 at 10:53 am | Shortcut[...] more than they spent last year. This year is thin though. Too bad they can't carry it over…. Baseball America | Blog | Baseball America Draft Blog | 2012 Aggregate Bonus Pools __________________ "I never argue with people who say that baseball is boring, because [...]
Posted by Mets payroll is now middle of the pack – NY Sports Day Forums | April 7, 2012 at 4:06 pm | Shortcut[...] signing bonus pools go into effect this year, giving the Cardinals $9,131,100 to spend, fourth highest in baseball. The bonus cap might hold back small market teams who want to get ambitious in the draft but it’s [...]
Posted by 2012 MLB Draft: CBA and Four Players | Future Redbirds | April 10, 2012 at 11:40 pm | Shortcut[...] you get taxed and risk future picks. Last year they spent $6.7 million on a much better draft…. Baseball America | Blog | Baseball America Draft Blog | 2012 Aggregate Bonus Pools __________________ "I never argue with people who say that baseball is boring, because [...]
Posted by The New York Mets select with the 12th pick overall… – NY Sports Day Forums | April 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm | ShortcutI find it to be very confusing. As the father of a player slated to go inside the fifth round, I have no idea what this means.
Posted by Jim | April 24, 2012 at 11:17 am | Shortcut[...] 2012 Aggregate Bonus Pools [...]
Posted by 2012 Draft Links | Baseball News | May 22, 2012 at 7:32 pm | Shortcut