Impossible draft picks

[da commish]

I just got done with an amateur draft in which I ended up with several "impossible" guys. What has been your experience with "impossible" draft picks? How much over their demand do you have to offer to get them to sign? 10% more? 50% more? Double the ask? Have you been able to make more than one offer or do they break off negotiations if they don't take your first offer? Thanks for any thoughts you may have.

[bjohn13]

They will break off negotiations if your first offer is not good enough. I do believe you get a compensatory pick if you don't sign a pick that you drafted in the first or second round in the next year's draft.

I typically stay away from "impossible" players unless it's someone I just absolutely need on my team (which is actually kind of common). In those cases, I will offer a Major League contract considerably higher than what the player is asking. I wish I had a baseline number, but I don't. And I sometimes fail to sign the guy, too.

[wallewalls]

It depends on what the initial number is. If it's small enough like 2 mil and I have the money to burn I'll just double it to guarantee it works, but if its like like 4-5 million I can usually get away with just increasing it by a million but to be safe I usually go with 1.5 million

[lebrgrdyszmr]

I always draft impossible players in the 3rd 4th and 5th round because the talent is to hard to pass up. Typically I offer about $2 million more then they are asking and I usually always get them.

[rpriske]

If it is possible to sign them they should not be labelled impossible.

[DawnBTVS]

Originally Posted by rpriske

If it is possible to sign them they should not be labelled impossible.

It's less a "literal" meaning of the word impossible and more a comparison to the other players in the MLB Draft.

For the majority of teams financially, Player X who wants say $5 Million would be an impossible signing compared to Player Y who wants $2 Million or Player Z who wants $1 Million.

There's a reason Scott Boras got such notoriety for the massive contracts for his clients and it's because he knew only a handful of teams could afford to pay that much.

http://sonsofsamhorn.com/baseball/ml...-player-draft/

"In 2001, Boras convinced the Phillies that he was serious about a huge deal for client Mark Teixeira; the Phils passed on the young first baseman and let the Rangers select him with the fifth pick of the draft (the Rangers signed him to a $9.5 million deal). In 2004, Boras’s effect was even more dramatic, as his demands for Weaver dropped the pitcher from a top-three pick to the 12th pick of the draft. Larger still was the effect Boras had in 2007, when he demanded (and eventually received) a $7 million deal for Rick Porcello, dropping Porcello from a top-two pick all the way to the 27th pick of the draft."

[discodude5]

One year I drafted an impossible in the first round by accident and when I made an offer they refused to sign.
I just assumed impossible meant they refuse to play for my team due to their personality traits.