Gerrit Cole

[PiratesOwnersSuck]

Looks like he is asking for the Moon and hoping for a star..13-15 million to sign..Sorry Gerrit, the Pirates are not the Yankees(Who you refused to sign with too). Hope this is just a ploy and not a player who wants to dictate where and when he signs.

 

[Burgh Sports Rule]

Bucs Dugout seems to think it is a ploy. Same with Pirates Prospects.

Typical Scott Boras client negotiating tactics. We have seen this before.

FYI: Both of the above mentioned sites seem to think the price will go down for G. Cole, as we get closer to Monday at midnight & that G. Cole, will probably get signed for a David Price type deal.

The reasoning being, while Cole is good, that he is not Strasburg.

I hope that eases your mind a bit.

The kid does have some leverage, as he is the #1 pick.

However, the Pirates have leverage too. Cole cannot go any higher in the MLB Draft then #1 & that is where the Pirates took him.

Leverage works both ways sometimes.

 

[Illinest]

Cole is not worth that. Let him go back to college. I'll take a signability pick at #2 next year rather than pay anywhere near that much.
Then I'll root for him to have tommy john.

 

[element1286]

Agents put this stuff out there all the time, it means essentially nothing.

Pirates have all the leverage.

 

[magnumo]

Now we know where this came out: about 8 million for Cole and about 5 million for Bell. Not surprisingly, a number of posters on various boards were pretty close. What DOES surprise me is the total dollars the Pirates gave out in the entire draft. Most reports are saying that we set a new mlb record for money spent on the draft at about $17 million, and that broke the previous record by about $5 million.

This brings us to the topic of hard-slotting for the draft in the next CBA..... but perhaps that topic is worthy of a new thread.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[steelparrot]

A blast from the past. I'm glad he signed