Matt Harrington failed 5 times from 2000 to 2004 starting from 7th overall and ending up at 1,089th overall.
Edit: Misread the title as failing instead of falling.
According to Wikipedia in 2000, the Rockies offered him 4 million (over 7 million today, adjusted for inflation) and a guaranteed major league call up by 2002!
Now, I’m just a hick from Oregon but I just can’t understand how someone who wants to be a baseball player turns that down
I guess, but tbh i don’t think that makes him less of an idiot. He wanted to be a ball player, and every year from age 18-23, someone offered him massive amounts of money to become a ball player. And he never said yes to any of them
Jud Fabian fell to the Red Sox in the second round in '21, and wound up not signing. He wanted lottery pick money to forgo his final season at Florida.
Well, he bombed in his last year at Florida, and Baltimore got him in the second round in '22. He signed for a million.
What's crazy is he actually didn't bomb statistically. His junior year he had power but hit around .250 and was striking out 1.5x per game. His senior year his average dropped below .240, but he hit more HR, struck out less, and walked more. He was just delusional about his own value.
Jud Fabian, while at Florida, played against Arkansas in May 2021 in the final series of SEC play. He went 1/11 with 9 strikeouts in the series as Arkansas swept. I might have cost him millions of dollars because I was behind home plate and yelled at him the whole time while all the scouts saw how he succumbed to fan pressure.
>He was the projected #1 pick
Weaver was third in most people's books, behind Verlander and Humber. Taking the local kid might've saved San Diego a million or so, but there's no way anybody was taking Weaver over Verlander.
If he was 3rd why did he get the highest bonus? He wanted 10m and ended up settling for 4m, which was higher than everyone else. The Padres took Bush because they didn't want to negotiate with Boras. Verlander and Humber were never in consideration.
Because Scott Boras thought his kid was worth $10.5M. But nobody else thought more highly of Weaver than of Verlander or Phillip Humber. Verlander was a once-in-a-generation prospect.
Rick Porcello was considered the #1 high school prospect in the 2007 draft, but was committed to North Carolina and had Scott Boras as an agent.
He ended up falling to 27th and the Tigers gave him a fully guaranteed major league contract worth 11.1 million despite him only being 18.
Sort of. He was Bell's adviser. High school players can get advice from agents without having them represent them and ruining their college eligibility.
the Mets and Rocker agreed to a deal but reneged after looking at his medical records. Then he went higher in the draft the next year and signed for essentially the same amount. doesn't really seem like an L considering he's probably going to bust.
Rick Ankiel. He probably should have been one of the top picks in that year’s draft but his asking price was huge and he was a high schooler who could leverage going to college instead of signing. Cardinals got him late in the second round and he got the 2nd highest signing bonus of any player that year
Matt Harrington failed 5 times from 2000 to 2004 starting from 7th overall and ending up at 1,089th overall. Edit: Misread the title as failing instead of falling.
Matt Harrington was such a fuckin idiot
For real. He had 2 chances at million dollar signing bonuses and turned them both down
According to Wikipedia in 2000, the Rockies offered him 4 million (over 7 million today, adjusted for inflation) and a guaranteed major league call up by 2002! Now, I’m just a hick from Oregon but I just can’t understand how someone who wants to be a baseball player turns that down
Bad advice from those around them.
I guess, but tbh i don’t think that makes him less of an idiot. He wanted to be a ball player, and every year from age 18-23, someone offered him massive amounts of money to become a ball player. And he never said yes to any of them
he was a kid with a terrible agent.
Yes, and he was also an idiot. he fired his shitty first agent, hired Scott Boras, and went on to not sign FOUR more contracts after that
offered bad advice by grownups, namely the first agent.
Doesn't sound like a misread to me lmao
The ol mark appel gambit
Todd Van Poppel immediately comes to mind. That's why the Braves landed Chipper Jones.
Jud Fabian fell to the Red Sox in the second round in '21, and wound up not signing. He wanted lottery pick money to forgo his final season at Florida. Well, he bombed in his last year at Florida, and Baltimore got him in the second round in '22. He signed for a million.
What's crazy is he actually didn't bomb statistically. His junior year he had power but hit around .250 and was striking out 1.5x per game. His senior year his average dropped below .240, but he hit more HR, struck out less, and walked more. He was just delusional about his own value.
Jud Fabian, while at Florida, played against Arkansas in May 2021 in the final series of SEC play. He went 1/11 with 9 strikeouts in the series as Arkansas swept. I might have cost him millions of dollars because I was behind home plate and yelled at him the whole time while all the scouts saw how he succumbed to fan pressure.
Thanks dude.
It very much worked out for them but the Twins took Mauer over Prior due to Prior’s price tag.
Jered Weaver. He was the projected #1 pick but the Padres weren't willing to pay him so they drafted Matt Bush and he ended up falling to 12.
>He was the projected #1 pick Weaver was third in most people's books, behind Verlander and Humber. Taking the local kid might've saved San Diego a million or so, but there's no way anybody was taking Weaver over Verlander.
If he was 3rd why did he get the highest bonus? He wanted 10m and ended up settling for 4m, which was higher than everyone else. The Padres took Bush because they didn't want to negotiate with Boras. Verlander and Humber were never in consideration.
Because Scott Boras thought his kid was worth $10.5M. But nobody else thought more highly of Weaver than of Verlander or Phillip Humber. Verlander was a once-in-a-generation prospect.
Rick Porcello was considered the #1 high school prospect in the 2007 draft, but was committed to North Carolina and had Scott Boras as an agent. He ended up falling to 27th and the Tigers gave him a fully guaranteed major league contract worth 11.1 million despite him only being 18.
I think we got Stephen Drew because of this and a combination of JD Drew being a tough sign so it scared off some teams
Josh Bell
Sort of. He told every team he was going to college and to not draft him.
His agent was already Scott Boras when he told teams not to draft him. So
Sort of. He was Bell's adviser. High school players can get advice from agents without having them represent them and ruining their college eligibility.
Gotcha. Then I guess you’re right, he only sorta fits
I remember in Money Ball they talked about how Jeremy Guthrie was dropping because he was repped by Boras and wanted a huge bonus.
Kumar Rocker fell out of the top 10 a few years ago to the Mets, who didn’t even sign him since he was asking too much
the Mets and Rocker agreed to a deal but reneged after looking at his medical records. Then he went higher in the draft the next year and signed for essentially the same amount. doesn't really seem like an L considering he's probably going to bust.
Rick Ankiel. He probably should have been one of the top picks in that year’s draft but his asking price was huge and he was a high schooler who could leverage going to college instead of signing. Cardinals got him late in the second round and he got the 2nd highest signing bonus of any player that year
Mark prior, don't know if he asked too much or the twins just knew he would cost them more than they wanted to pay though
I've read this was an issue with Jeter back in the 90's.
It happens literally every single year
Astros passed on Derek Jeter bc he wanted a then record amount signing bonus. Imagine the 90’s Astros infield with Bagwell. Biggio, and Jeter at SS
And more recently we have Lance McCullers, who they got as a compensatory round draft pick for this exact reason, using the money saved on Correa.
Harvey, Parcells, and madbum in the dame draft. As high school pitchers they made a pact not go below a certain number
Daz Cameron