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Originally Posted by jeffw3000
These 18-year-olds grow up fast when thrown a bunch of money as evidenced by Josh Bell for the Pirates.
He sent a letter to all teams not to draft him because he was going to college. His mother, a teacher, wanted him to go to definitely college first. He gets drafted in the second round, and the Pirates throw 5 million at him. The highest bonus ever for a player in the second round. He says the heck with mom and college, and signs on the dotted line.
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Was 5 million their first offer? If so that seems to be consistent with what we see in OOTP. If you can throw a lot of cash at them, they may reconsider.