Browsing by Subject "Baseball players -- Recruiting -- United States"

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Signing Bonuses & Subsequent Productivity: Predicting Success in the MLB Draft

Hubley, Bobby (2012)

This study examines the ability of Major League Baseball organizations to successfully value and project the future productivity of players selected in the amateur draft. To do so, the relationship between player valuations ...
The Arm Behind The Barn: A Look into the Effects of the First Year Player Draft in Major League Baseball on Amateur Scouting

Graupe, Jeff (2006)

"When scouts refer to themselves as 'baseball men,' they might as well be naming a distinct class of primates. Just before Jocko Collins retired in 1982, in his forty-third year as a scout, he defined a baseball man as 'a ...
The Effects of Signing Bonus Pools in the Major League Baseball Draft

DiCandilo, Jennifer (2014)

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the impacts of the new signing bonus pooling system in the Major League Baseball Rule 4 draft agreed upon in the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). More specifically, it ...

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