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Email a copy of 'Latest On Braves' First-Rounder Kolby Allard' to a friend
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ATK
I hope we sign him with the funds we have available. Getting the 15th pick in next year’s draft will not offset the lost year of development that will be missed. We are building the farm system for the future and missing out on a first round pick will not help. On a side note, I hate how people are “advising” high school kids that 3.4 million is not enough for them sign and begin the job of their dreams. The amount that people get paid to play sports is getting out of control, in all major sports.
Steve Adams
To be fair, we don’t know what the Braves are offering, if the advisers are holding out for more, etc. But generally speaking, I agree. If you’re offered $1MM+ as a high school kid, take the money. If your career doesn’t pan out, you can go to college afterward and have an incredible head start on life that few others get.
Thegreatandpowerfulsimba
For real. The braves have probably made there best offer already. you don’t walkaway from this type of money if you are an intelligent man.
Backatitagain
Braves are offering slot plus money plus 4 year scholership. Drop this kid and get another next year when the internationals may be combined.
mike156
I would generally agree with this, but I think you have to take into account the idea that many think that the gamble for more is worth it. If the mindset is a year in college playing baseball isn’t such a bad thing to earn a lot more, it may be tough to settle for less than you think you would get. Personally, I think a good guaranteed offer, with a chance to start your career a year earlier (and possibly your service clock earlier) would be worth it. Unless you are getting a gigantic payoff for waiting, the big dollars are in arbitration and free agency.
Backatitagain
Good Bye Koby. Good luck next year. Must have been a bunch of crap about how much he wanted to be only a brave. Please do not go over slot Mr. Hart. We will do better next year with the 15th overall pick.
80want
I’m no doctor or GM, but a stress fracture in the back seems a justifiable reason not to pay over-slot, especially for a player whose pre-injury draft projections were about on target to where he ended up. (FWIW, Kiley McDaniel had him going #23 to the Cardinals in his final, post-injury mock draft.)
Dock_Elvis
It’s a ridiculous gamble to turn down millions of dollars. That’s life changing money. If you are valued that highly as a draft pick, teams feel you have a major league future. It’s a completely different scenario from being taken in the lower rounds where the bonuses are 5 digits.
klnjjkjknh2
I had a friend in high school who was offered a bonus of $200k. It’s not millions, but it’s a lot of money. Some people have to work 8 years to make that.
Anyway, he turned it down. He wanted to experience going to college as an 18 year old. Living in the dorms, going to parties, making tons of new friends.
The minor leagues are not a glamorous lifestyle, and to some people, money doesn’t matter much.
Dock_Elvis
I’m well aware of the subject. 200k is reasonable to turn down….but I’m not sure that being a 1st rounder with nearly a 2m bonus is the same. That’s life altering money. I was involved with a major collegiate baseball program, and I’d advise most young players to go to college myself…I just see turning down 2m as more of a gamble to reenter the draft than anything.
geauxbraves
I don’t know, back injuries and pitching are not a good combination. I don’t know what the Braves offered him, but if I were Hart I’d tell him to take it or leave it.