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Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.

4C40411A131A121F18071D2A0 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?

6F51545C4F57575C7C594E5D0A380 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?


As far as an orderly system, no. I believe the teams can sign any player, but all teams have a set budget to spend. Prior to COVID teams could trade a player for additional signing bonus money. I don’t believe MLB has reinstated this arrangement for this draft again this year.

605E5B53405858537356415205370 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?


More like college recruiting.

04232A2A23303323043325460 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?


More like college recruiting.


It is actually not a draft. It is just an International Player Signing Period. In 2022 MLB has set certain amounts of money each team can spend as the custom has been over the last few years. Sort of a bonus system. In 2022 though teams are not allowed to trade for any additional bonus money like they could in the past. So the way this works is that the highest bidder for a player seems to win.

55747C557E76110 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?


More like college recruiting.


It is actually not a draft.  It is just an International Player Signing Period.  In 2022 MLB has set certain amounts of money each team can spend as the custom has been over the last few years.  Sort of a bonus system.  In 2022 though teams are not allowed to trade for any additional bonus money like they could in the past.  So the way this works is that the highest bidder for a player seems to win.




I said it was like college recruiting, not a draft.  It is not entirely accurate to say the highest bidder for a player wins.  It has been known where many of these players are going for a long time. It is about building relationships just as much as money.  Rene Gayo proved that pretty well with his mistreatment of Miguel Sano.



These relationships are 2-3 years in the making, and players are generally not scouted anymore once they have an agreement with a team, even though they will not sign for years.



The Pirates are the favorites for the #11 and #12 player according to MLB Pipeline.

71565F5F56454656714650330 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?


More like college recruiting.


It is actually not a draft.  It is just an International Player Signing Period.  In 2022 MLB has set certain amounts of money each team can spend as the custom has been over the last few years.  Sort of a bonus system.  In 2022 though teams are not allowed to trade for any additional bonus money like they could in the past.  So the way this works is that the highest bidder for a player seems to win.




I said it was like college recruiting, not a draft.  It is not entirely accurate to say the highest bidder for a player wins.  It has been known where many of these players are going for a long time. It is about building relationships just as much as money.  Rene Gayo proved that pretty well with his mistreatment of Miguel Sano.



These relationships are 2-3 years in the making, and players are generally not scouted anymore once they have an agreement with a team, even though they will not sign for years.



The Pirates are the favorites for the #11 and #12 player according to MLB Pipeline.


I don't disagree with your college recruiting idea. All I did was make certain that the previous poster understood that it was not a draft. And while you are throwing stones at me for not acknowledging your idea, I will throw them right back at you. Why did you not go into more detail when you said it was like college recruiting? You that while you threw stones.

07262E072C24430 wrote: Next Saturday begins the International Draft signing day. We finally get to read and hear some positive baseball news. Hopefully the Pirates can add talent to their already excellent farm system. I am sure BC and his staff will add some top level players to the System.
I am not sure how this works. Is there an orderly draft system?


More like college recruiting.


It is actually not a draft.  It is just an International Player Signing Period.  In 2022 MLB has set certain amounts of money each team can spend as the custom has been over the last few years.  Sort of a bonus system.  In 2022 though teams are not allowed to trade for any additional bonus money like they could in the past.  So the way this works is that the highest bidder for a player seems to win.




I said it was like college recruiting, not a draft.  It is not entirely accurate to say the highest bidder for a player wins.  It has been known where many of these players are going for a long time. It is about building relationships just as much as money.  Rene Gayo proved that pretty well with his mistreatment of Miguel Sano.



These relationships are 2-3 years in the making, and players are generally not scouted anymore once they have an agreement with a team, even though they will not sign for years.



The Pirates are the favorites for the #11 and #12 player according to MLB Pipeline.


I don't disagree with your college recruiting idea.  All I did was make certain that the previous poster understood that it was not a draft.  And while you are throwing stones at me for not acknowledging your idea, I will throw them right back at you.  Why did you not go into more detail when you said it was like college recruiting?  You that while you threw stones. 




What stones are you talking about? You replied to me that it is actually not a draft, when i never said it was a draft. How is that inaccurate?



I don't think you need to go into more detail on what college recruiting is like, but i did already anyways.

By now I hope that Possum and Bellevue have discovered that they are really not having a disagreement. Misunderstandings occur when people reply to multi-poster threads!



If we can sign this Blanco guy I will be one happy fan! We haven't had a power-hitting 1B prospect like that in quite a while!

557F744473656569060 wrote: By now I hope that Possum and Bellevue have discovered that they are really not having a disagreement. Misunderstandings occur when people reply to multi-poster threads! 



If we can sign this Blanco guy I will be one happy fan! We haven't had a power-hitting 1B prospect like that in quite a while!


True. Its a complicated process. And these are 13-14 year old kids they are scouting and coming to agreements with.



I do wonder why the Rays fell out of favor with Blanco.