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2013 First Year Player Draft Order and Bonus Pool Money
An article by Craig Lerner
Stanford RHP Mark Appel will lead another MLB Draft Class in 2013.
The following is the draft order for the 2013 First Year Player Draft. Each team’s approximate bonus pool to sign its picks in the first 10 rounds is in parentheses and comes courtesy of Baseball America. Those numbers are based on the 2012 pick values, which will be adjusted upward to reflect the increase in MLB’s revenues this year. Bonus pool money will shift from one team to another every time a competitive-balance lottery pick is traded (those deals only can occur during the regular season) or a compensation free agent changes clubs.
2013 Draft Order and Bonus Pool
1. Astros ($10,880,000)
2. Cubs ($9,822,500)
3. Rockies ($9,490,700)
4. Twins ($7,700,700)
5. Indians ($7,693,000)
6. Marlins ($8,870,700)
7. Red Sox ($6,341,900)
8. Royals ($7,741,200)
9. *Pirates ($8,226,500)
10. Blue Jays ($5,941,300)
11. Mets ($6,487,300)
12. Mariners ($5,694,600)
13. Padres ($6,330,400)
14. Pirates (see above)
15. Diamondbacks ($6,766,200)
16. Phillies ($5,601,800)
17. Brewers ($5,660,200)
18. White Sox ($4,864,100)
19. Dodgers ($4,780,900)
20. Cardinals ($4,698,300)
21. Tigers ($6,035,500)
22. Angels ($4,584,300)
23. Rays ($4,525,900)
24. Orioles ($5,940,000)
25. Rangers ($4,419,900)
26. Athletics ($5,541,900)
27. Giants ($4,317,500)
28. Braves ($4,266,800)
29. Yankees ($4,216,300)
30. Reds ($5,596,600)
31. Nationals ($4,116,500)
*Compensation for failure to sign 2012 first-rounder Mark Appel.
During this year’s draft, the Mets’ Bonus Pool was $7,151,400 and they were allowed to spend $8,351,400 without incurring any penalties under the new CBA. The Mets spent $6,285,400 of their allotted pool money leaving a little over $2 million on the table. In accordance with the new rules, only $185,600 of that amount will carry over to the next draft and it is included in next year’s spending allotment reflected above.
New CBA changes to free agency take effect for this offseason.
If a team signs a Type A free agent and their first round pick is not protected, the pick is forfeited. It simply is wiped out and does not go to the team that lost the free agent as in years past. If their first round pick is protected, then their second round pick gets wiped out.
The first ten picks of the first round are protected. The Mets just missed having their pick protected after ranking eleventh for the upcoming draft. But it’s not like they were going to sign a Type A free agent anyway.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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The first ten picks of the first round are protected. The Mets just missed having their pick protected after ranking eleventh for the upcoming draft. But it’s not like they were going to sign a Type A free agent anyway”
Or a Type B or even C free agent.. No worries here…
Odds are the Mets wont spend all the bonus money anyway. They’ll go under slot the first five rounds or so, and then overslot the rest of the way. I wouldn’t doubt they fail to sign a high pick too, just to save more money.
Its a bad draft class too, even weaker than last year.
There were 10 teams with a worse record than the Mets in 2012? Interesting.
Forgive me for not getting too worked up over the MLB draft. It’s not like the Mets are going to select anyone who’ll make a difference any time soon, anyway. This isn’t the NFL or the NBA where draft picks get a chance to play with the “big club” right away. Even phenoms like Harper and Strasburg played in the minors for at least 2 years before being called up.
In other words, wake me up when a recent (SA regime) Mets draft pick makes any kind of noise at the MLB level.
for the record, neither Harper nor Strasburg played 2 full years in the minors. Both played one, started the next year in the minors and was quickly called up.
So we left a little over 2 MIl on the table last year by not signing half our draft and we get a windfall of 185K more to spend THIS year and that was a GOOD REASON to not sign half a draft?
Up is down, Left is Right and sideways is straight ahead!
Great Job Sandy what a genius that no other team in the MLB thought of that fine and dandy plan!
They don’t rollover the entire amount because they want teams to spend their pool money and not hoard it for the following draft. Although it doesn’t explain why the Mets left all that money on the table, probably Wilpon had something to do with it because I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a strategy.
When payroll goes up profits go down. Bottom line use Moneyball philosophy.
When we are left with Wright as a life long Met the PR helps ticket sales.
If we step aside from big spending then we have flexbility to move ahead
Well Payroll has gone down each of the last 3 years and Profits have gone down with it!
When we had the highest payroll (2009) they made a profit!
My post was reflective of SA’s arguments for:
Up is down, Left is Right and sideways is straight .
LOL Sorry but you have to be carefl aound here a lot of dummies will believe what you said!
They been buying it for two yars now!
not sure you understand what moneyball means.
Around $680,000 was added to the Mets pool since they didn’t sign there 2nd rounder and have a compensation pick in 2013.
They only add money to next year’s pool if the unsigned player wanted more than slot, and that was not the case with Stanky. It came up in a chat with Eddy from BA.
LOL, $680K was added to their pool only in their dreams. They got barely $200K, they screwed up big time.
not to mention despite having several players with huge upside and potential, especially in the power department, the mets failed to draft or sign one impact player last year. this coming from a gm who admits the teams biggest need is power .. yet he left about 3 or 4 big time power prospects on the board and instead drafted gavin cecchini (ss) despite being set for many years with reuben tejada .. oh yeah and our top int’l free agent signing this summer .. that’s right you guessed it he’s a SS
lots of guys get drafted as a SS and end up moving elsewhere. They tend to be the best player/athlete on most teams, and if you can play SS at a reasonably high (even if not ML) level, odds are you can be good defensively at other positions.