The office has been on the phone several times since 6am PST with the Astros and Twins. According to Ryan, the Astros have lowered their offer and want a verbal commitment from the player before they move into their office and start the draft where we are only left with communication via text message. Ryan has said he contacted the player and got him to agree to the lower amount since he feels that the amount offered is more than what the players said value is right now in the draft.
Day three of the draft is underway and we have completed rounds 10 and 11 and our prospects have not been chosen yet. Several text messages have gone back and forth but nothing has been agreed to yet. The Astros apparently did not choose our prospect in the 12th round and the previous statement of not believing a scouts word holds true. I would like to digress a little right now.
This situation where the scout says one thing and the club does something different justifies why having an agent is so important during this process. If our prospect did not have us working for him, the player would have either agreed to a lower amount or become extremely frustrated because he would have been told a few times that he would be drafted and then wasn’t. Players in the draft have a hard time separating that baseball is a fun sport to play versus it being a business to these teams. In general, baseball is a business, a tough business to be successful at to say the least, and these teams will squeeze every penny they can out of the player in order to keep money in their pockets. The owners are not worried about one particular player. They are more concerned at how they can turn a profit from their business of owning an MLB organization. An agent understands this and wants to squeeze every penny out of the organization in order to give the player a higher stock value once they are in the organization. If a team needs to make room on a roster, they are not going to release a player they have already invested millions of dollars in. They are going to release a player they have invested in the least. So if you think accepting a bus ticket to play professional baseball is sufficient, guess what, your career will be short lived. The less money you accept in the draft, the easier it is for the team to release you and the least chances you will have to prove your keep. Now, back to the draft.
Day three of the draft is underway and we have completed rounds 10 and 11 and our prospects have not been chosen yet. Several text messages have gone back and forth but nothing has been agreed to yet. The Astros apparently did not choose our prospect in the 12th round and the previous statement of not believing a scouts word holds true. I would like to digress a little right now.
This situation where the scout says one thing and the club does something different justifies why having an agent is so important during this process. If our prospect did not have us working for him, the player would have either agreed to a lower amount or become extremely frustrated because he would have been told a few times that he would be drafted and then wasn’t. Players in the draft have a hard time separating that baseball is a fun sport to play versus it being a business to these teams. In general, baseball is a business, a tough business to be successful at to say the least, and these teams will squeeze every penny they can out of the player in order to keep money in their pockets. The owners are not worried about one particular player. They are more concerned at how they can turn a profit from their business of owning an MLB organization. An agent understands this and wants to squeeze every penny out of the organization in order to give the player a higher stock value once they are in the organization. If a team needs to make room on a roster, they are not going to release a player they have already invested millions of dollars in. They are going to release a player they have invested in the least. So if you think accepting a bus ticket to play professional baseball is sufficient, guess what, your career will be short lived. The less money you accept in the draft, the easier it is for the team to release you and the least chances you will have to prove your keep. Now, back to the draft.
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