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Saturday, July 19, 2008 --- 47 days ago http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/in-draft-signing-news-or-the-
| Over at lonestarball.com, Adam Morris has a snippet up from Baseball Prospectus (which, for the unitiated, is a paysite) suggesting the Rangers have all but reached agreements with second round pick LHP Robbie Ross, fifth-rounder OF Clark Murphy and seventh-rounder RHP Matt Thompson (of Burleson). GM Jon Daniels says it's not so. "The report is inaccurate," Daniels just wrote me. "I'd love to say we've reached an agreement because then we'd have these guys out playing, but it's simply not the case. We're working on it, but there's nothing to report." The whole slotting system makes for complicated negotiations. You want to sign a player for more than the recommended slot (as would be the case with all three of these players)? Then you've got to get inform MLB first. And if you are going significantly above slot, MLB is going to be a little bit steamed. You don't want Bud Selig to get mad at you. So, what ends up happening with a lot of these "above slot" deals is that players wait until very close to the deadline so that there announced bonuses won't have an impact on the rest of the market. They sign for their big bonuses. They go to the Instructional League and that's that. I expect it's going to take $1 million or more to keep Ross from going to Kentucky. But I think the figures of more than $500,000 for Thompson and $350,000 for Murphy may both be a little bit on the high side. I don't doubt the Rangers are working towards ge ... |
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