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Originally Posted by RchW
Not sure a player who is not a consensus projection as an MLB player would have any leverage at all. He certainly won't be making demands. I know a guy picked 52nd out of high school and the negotiations consisted of "sign this 2nd round package". He was Texas HS Pitcher of the year and he had no leverage other than College. The package for early round HS players always includes a paid 4 year College ride if you don't make it. That kind of tilts the risk reward steeply towards turning pro. I'd be afraid to cross the street at College for 4 years if I turned that down.
My point was that OOTP strains credulity when player demand doesn't match his potential and scouting report. No-hopers and minor league filler don't make any demands.
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I'm not sure where you're getting that idea from, but it's just not even close to being the case.
Those kind of guys do make demands or else state their intention to go to college, all the time. Not all of them do, some just want to play pro ball and will pretty much take any reasonable offer. But for a great deal of players that's not the case at all.
Take Kyle Serrano or Connor Jones from last years draft as examples. Both were considered to be decent 2nd to 4th round type picks yet they wanted to go to school and both made demands of early 1st round money. Both were drafted around 20 rounds lower than their talent would've dictated. Neither signed and both are now in school. They're only two of the highest profile such players, there are many, many more.
Just take a look at Perfect Game's list of the top 500 HS prospects from 2013. That's well within the range of guys who should be drafted and signed in a 1300 person draft, all things being equal.
Yet around half of them either weren't drafted at all, or were drafted in later rounds and didn't sign.
Why? In nearly every case it was because they wanted to go to school and were demanding far more than teams considered that they were worth to pass up their scholarships. This is something that happens every year, it's not even close to being uncommon, in fact it's pretty much the norm.