OKCAGS said:
I respect your opinion, but a year and a half removed from major arm surgery ….. it is not impossible at all to add velo . Prager is probably gone and I am happy for him , but IF he did come back …. He could easily be a 1st round pick next year and double his signing bonus .
I think what we (or at least I) take exception to is that you keep saying it can "easily" be done. It's not easy and is in no way guaranteed. The better you are, the harder it is to get better.OKCAGS said:
I respect your opinion, but a year and a half removed from major arm surgery ….. it is not impossible at all to add velo . Prager is probably gone and I am happy for him , but IF he did come back …. He could easily be a 1st round pick next year and double his signing bonus .
Or blowing your shoulder out again pitching against SHU.jkag89 said:
And all this can be done at the pro level without risk of losing nearly a million dollars.
🚨 RYAN PRAGER IS RETURNING TO AGGIELAND 🚨
— Jaxson Callaway (AT) (@AggiesToday) July 24, 2024
WHAT A MASSIVE TURN OF EVENTS. https://t.co/LgvklyZRDO
Very likely underslotted so his pay was not as much as he thought it should be. Not sure of how the 2025 pitchers look but he may have spoken with people that thought he could be first or second round last year. Difference could be over a million.hurst03 said:
So why would he walk away from $1M dollars?
P.U.T.U said:Very likely underslotted so his pay was not as much as he thought it should be. Not sure of how the 2025 pitchers look but he may have spoken with people that thought he could be first or second round last year. Difference could be over a million.hurst03 said:
So why would he walk away from $1M dollars?
He could also get injured next season, NIL deal must be enough for him to feel comfortable for him to come back
Well, obviously, this was the rare exception. Something like 99.97% of guys taken in the first 10 rounds signed last year. So, where was the screw up? Did the Angles not work out a deal with Prager before picking him? Did they reneg on the deal? The Angels just signed a high school right hander that throws 100 mph that they took in the 11th round (teams passed on him when they got past the slot value he was looking for) to a bonus like $1 million over slot. Obviously they used the Prager money for this. How long was that in the works?twk said:This. I know that there are people who don't follow this subject closely who are not aware of the changes in the last few years, so we are going to see this question every now and then. But, in the current environment, that's the way the draft is operated. The team and the player have agreed on a bonus prior to the pick being announced. Barring some kind of miscommunication or other screw up, when you hear a name called in the first 10 rounds, they are gone.ensign_beedrill said:Time for my annual PSA...if your team has a player or recruit drafted today, even if they dropped, they are almost certainly signing. Orgs aren't in the business of using a pick in the top 10 rounds on a guy they're not signing. There are exceptions every year, but they're rare.
— Joe Healy (@JoeHealyD1) July 15, 2024
hurst03 said:
So why would he walk away from $1M dollars?
We will probably never know. But one thing we Do know is- $1 M after taxes, in California, or in whatever minor league town...is what it is. Nothing is free anymore and everything costs money. The season is longer. More wear and tear on the body and just a tougher lifestyle.hurst03 said:
So why would he walk away from $1M dollars?
The HS kid was $1.8M over slot. ...but as I understand the current Rule 4 Rules, they cannot use the Prager money on this kid. If a team does not sign a player in the Top 10 rounds they FORFEIT that amount of money from the bonus pool. So not signing Ryan meant that the Angels had ~$950k less money than their total bonus pool to spend.twk said:Well, obviously, this was the rare exception. Something like 99.97% of guys taken in the first 10 rounds signed last year. So, where was the screw up? Did the Angles not work out a deal with Prager before picking him? Did they reneg on the deal? The Angels just signed a high school right hander that throws 100 mph that they took in the 11th round (teams passed on him when they got past the slot value he was looking for) to a bonus like $1 million over slot. Obviously they used the Prager money for this. How long was that in the works?twk said:This. I know that there are people who don't follow this subject closely who are not aware of the changes in the last few years, so we are going to see this question every now and then. But, in the current environment, that's the way the draft is operated. The team and the player have agreed on a bonus prior to the pick being announced. Barring some kind of miscommunication or other screw up, when you hear a name called in the first 10 rounds, they are gone.ensign_beedrill said:Time for my annual PSA...if your team has a player or recruit drafted today, even if they dropped, they are almost certainly signing. Orgs aren't in the business of using a pick in the top 10 rounds on a guy they're not signing. There are exceptions every year, but they're rare.
— Joe Healy (@JoeHealyD1) July 15, 2024
We can all analyze it, but I imagine there's a hundred things that factored into this from both sides most of us will never know or understand. But without all of them, it might go the other way.tjack16 said:
Two years of eligibility left so he still has leverage next year. If he pitches well he could play his way into a first round or 2nd round bonus next year
