2022 17th Round Pick (#497): Carter Young - SS - (JR) Vanderbilt (TN)

[Tony-OH]

Just now, BohKnowsBmore said:

Wouldn’t they lose the slot value?

Not sure I understand your question.

[Aglets]

Doesn't this completely use up (and likely even exceed) our draft pool for this year?

[clapdiddy]

Just now, Tony-OH said:

Not sure I understand your question.

I had replied with a "yes", but deleted it.  If McLean does NOT sign, doesn't that mean they lose that pool money?

[BohKnowsBmore]

Just now, Tony-OH said:

Not sure I understand your question.

If they didn’t sign McLean, then they couldn’t repurpose the money. 

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, BohKnowsBmore said:

If they didn’t sign McLean, then they couldn’t repurpose the money. 

Not only that it lowers their allotment so the 5% overage would be based off the new lower amount.

[seak05]

10 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Maybe McLean won't sign and now they can use the money for Young? I figure they will sign one or the other.

They can’t. If you don’t sign someone in 1-10, you lose that slot money. That’s what happened to Houston with Atkin. They also lost another player that they’d planned to go overslot on.

[MurphDogg]

Unless McLean is signing for significantly underslot, which does not appear to be the case, the Orioles will have blown through their slot pool with this signing and will be paying a 75 percent tax on the approximately $800,000 that they will have exceeded their draft pool by ($600,000), so this signing will end up costing the Orioles nearly $2,000,000.

[RZNJ]

11 minutes ago, Aglets said:

Doesn't this completely use up (and likely even exceed) our draft pool for this year?

This.  Whether we sign McLean or not, this uses up the overage.   Now McLean is either signing for slot, below, or not at all.   The fact that he hasn't signed is not a good sign.

[waroriole]

This is a nice move by Elias. Consensus 1st round pick coming into the season. I guess we know why Walters didn’t sign. 

[MurphDogg]

5 percent of McLean's slot value of $794,000 is $40,000. So they will not have exceeded their overall pool value by 5 percent if McLean fails to sign. Also, if McLean fails to sign, they will get a compensation pick in the 3rd round of the 2023 draft.

[AnythingO's]

They have $1.218.9K available right now. Only the amount above $125K counts against the bonus pool right? So $1,200K against pool means they have pocket change left.

[Frobby]

So we are paying Young the equivalent of slot money for the no. 56/57 pick in the draft.  Seems like a lot for a guy who hit .207 this year.  

[RZNJ]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

So we are paying Young the equivalent of slot money for the no. 56/57 pick in the draft.  Seems like a lot for a guy who hit .207 this year.  

Yeah, but he hit .252 last year!!!   LOL

[Gurgi]

Lot of money to spend on a guy who likely wont hit .250 at Bowie.  Ever.

[MurphDogg]

3 minutes ago, AnythingO's said:

They have $1.218.9K available right now. Only the amount above $125K counts against the bonus pool right? So $1,200K against pool means they have pocket change left.

The $1.2M didn't include the 5 percent overage of $850k, but does include McLean's slot value of $794K (available only if they sign McLean). So by Callis's calculations above, they could as high as $874,050 on McLean which means they have $80,050 left in the 5 percent overage pool if they sign McLean. If they don't sign McLean, his pool money (and the subsequent 5 percent overage) disappears and they can offer James Hicks (15th round pick) approximately $165K.