You’ll Have to Go to College, Slugger

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Hmmm…

If passed, the days of the high schooler signing for millions and heading into the farm system are over, and college baseball programs will actually hold a little additional leverage over NIL compensation, knowing they won’t have to compete with a MLB signing bonus for younger prospects.

Well, at least, that’s the hope. Since money’s involved, I’m sure someone will step in and screw it up royally by offering a signing bonus-esque offer to a high school kid…but I wonder who will be the first to do it?

Or Miami. You already know it to be true.

6 thoughts on “You’ll Have to Go to College, Slugger”

  1. I’m surprised that MLB didn’t do this long ago. Management and the union closed shop slams the door in the face of the guys who don’t want to play college baseball. I would love to see how many players in The Show went straight from 17-18 into the minors. Will some of the unaffiliated minor leagues (and summer leagues) now take these guys while they bide their time?

    All this allows the guys who have made it to the top to stay there longer and earn more.

    Cody Campbell, John Ruiz, the UT-A oil barons, and the AgCult oil barons are all smiling.

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  2. This is totally expected given all the changes to Minor League Baseball over the past 10 years or so – expenses have gone way up, and my guess is that revenues are probably also way down. Continuing to further outsource the development costs to colleges (ala the football model) is definitely the way to go (from the MLB owners’ perspective)…..

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    • Minor league baseball has been a drain on MLB for decades. The owners see what the NFL and NBA have gotten for years for free and want some of that.

      Maybe, just maybe, MLB will agree to supply college baseball programs with subsidized wood bats and get the hated ping out of the college game.

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  3. So high school grads from the US can’t sign with MLB, but an 18 y.o. kid from the Dominican Republic, Curacao or Venezuela can be in the majors tomorrow.

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  4. Good bye minor league baseball. No more single or double A ball. Sir you dead on. Put the money on the universitys. Won’t be as much jumping to majors. Keep on and will all go away!!!

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