Comments on: 2013 First Year Player Draft Order and Bonus Pool Money

By: gbaked

gbaked — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:09:23 +0000

not sure you understand what moneyball means.

By: gbaked

gbaked — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:07:11 +0000

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.

By: Stick

Stick — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:54:51 +0000

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.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:42:57 +0000

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

By: Metsie

Metsie — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:23:36 +0000

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!

By: Met Maniac

Met Maniac — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:05:52 +0000

LOL, $680K was added to their pool only in their dreams. They got barely $200K, they screwed up big time.

By: hotstreak

hotstreak — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:02:43 +0000

My post was reflective of SA’s arguments for:

Up is down, Left is Right and sideways is straight .

By: Metsie

Metsie — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:29:37 +0000

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!

By: hotstreak

hotstreak — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:53:26 +0000

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

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:47:43 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:43:25 +0000

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.

By: MTM222

MTM222 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:31:59 +0000

Around $680,000 was added to the Mets pool since they didn’t sign there 2nd rounder and have a compensation pick in 2013.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:23:41 +0000

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!

By: Javi

Javi — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:16:34 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:16:35 +0000

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.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:06:49 +0000

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…