Turk Nowitzki wrote:Yeah I'm not sure what they're up to unless they really think they need all this money to sign the two 2nd round prep guys?
At this point I'm assuming they're going to go hard after players with college commitments in rounds 11-20. If a player taken in rounds 1-10 doesn't sign, that bonus allotment is removed from the team's total.
However, that penalty doesn't apply to picks in the 11th round on. Even though the slot for each pick is is up to $150,000, they can use all that money saved in 1-10 and throw it at high school kids. If those kids don't sign, there's no penalty.
Some guys just last year taken after the 10th round and the money it took:
11 (332): Bishop Letson, RHP, Floyd Central High (IN)
Signing bonus: $482,600
12 (362): Bjorn Johnson, LHP, Lincoln High (WA)
Signing bonus: $420,500
14 (422): Hayden Robinson, RHP, Berwick High (LA)
Signing bonus: $347,500
15 (452): Josh Adamczewski, SS, Lake Central High (IN)
Signing bonus: $252,500
20 (602): Justin Chambers, LHP, Basha High (AZ)
Signing bonus: $547,500
"It was definitely at the end of Day 2 [and Round 10] where we started to feel like we could take a lot of our money in the pool into Day 3 and draft a lot of the kids who we thought were interesting potential signings," Johnson said. "We've typically tried to do some guys after the 10th like [2022 12th rounder] Luke Adams and [2021 14th rounder] Jace Avina and [2021 13th rounder] Quinton Low. We usually like to have some money to spend on Day 3, but this is the biggest group we've had since maybe 2018 or 2017.
"It just worked out this way. A lot of the kids were interested in getting their pro careers going, and they went in that direction."
