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The Prospect Thread III

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Canes said:
A 16 year old kid got paid 5.6 million dollar signing bonus by the Padres. The Braves don't even pay their stars that much, wtf. lol
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Doesn't really strike me as unusual. It's a record, sure (unsurprising, really - of course the record number will continue to go up every couple of years), but MLB teams have been handing out multi-million dollar bonuses to international amateurs for years - last year, the biggest bonus was $4.9M, the year before was $4.0M, $5.0M in 2019, $5.25M in 2018. The amateur draft bonuses aren't really that different, either.
 
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Cas said:
Doesn't really strike me as unusual. It's a record, sure (unsurprising, really - of course the record number will continue to go up every couple of years), but MLB teams have been handing out multi-million dollar bonuses to international amateurs for years - last year, the biggest bonus was $4.9M, the year before was $4.0M, $5.0M in 2019, $5.25M in 2018. The amateur draft bonuses aren't really that different, either.
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The amateur draft still has at least 2 years more for high school seniors and 3-5 for college players. Which is a lifetime in development in the baseball world. But I mean I get it... this is the market rate for international prospects now, still don't like it though.
 


EDIT: According to CBS Sports his last steal of the game was later changed to " defensive indifference " by the official scorer after the game so Rafaela ended up with 6 SB for the game. The team ended up with 9 SB so the Somerset catcher had a rough day.
 
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Yikes, so TJS for Painter. His 2024 season is probably already over too. He's still very young so this is not a career killer but who knows how his stuff comes back from this.
 


Took a long time to get to a place everyone knew this was headed
 
This comes with the caveat that he's still a teenager and had had some injuries but Druw Jones has been absolutely brutal this year (.522 OPS),

To think there seemed to be a real debate about Jones vs Holliday entering that draft...
 
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