The Detroit Tigers used what Baseball America called a ‘spend early, save late’ strategy to get its draft class signed.
recently wrote about each team’s use of its draft bonus pool. Each team receives a bonus pool based on a variety of factors.
The Tigers selected a prep outfielder, Bryce Rainer, in the first round, which came with a slot value of $5.712 million. Detroit gave him $85,000 more. Each of the Tigers’ next six selection were all from four-year colleges. Detroit got all of them to sign under-slot deals and saved $679,000 of its bonus money?
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