will the new baseball agreement hurt or help college baseball

After talking to my trusted friend, we both agreed that the new agreement is hurting college baseball. With the draft that just ended, look at the bonuses they are giving JR's and Sr's. If you are a high draft pick out of high school and you don't sign you are potenially losing 100 of thousands of dollars by going to college and coming out your Jr year. With the money slot you have no power of negotiating. What are you going to do, Go back to school for your senior year and have no bargaining power. The high drafted High School senior will have a little power but not like they used to. Let's see, take the 500,000 or more or turn it down and go to college and wait until i am a junior and hopefully get drafted again where my bargaining power is slim or take the money and start my pro career. Example: A freshman who had a super season, gets to his junior year and has another good season, because of the new collective agreement is now in a slot system where he will not get nearly the bonus he would have gotten if the old system was in place. There will be exceptions but the 2 round draftee on up will lose money. you might see a spike in players going the JUCO route to beat this crazy system in order to keep their bargaining power. Just my opinion and was wondering what do other posters think. Bud Selig is a dumb ass. MLB can sign a players from other countries as free agents and pay them huge bonuses but the players from the states has to go through a slot system. Doesnt make sense to me.

 

Obviously, baseball controlled this deal and the players association didn't care about the drafted players. Of course, it's a win situation for the owners. Baseball hides behind the anti-trust exemption and gets to skirt around many labor laws.

I believe many more players will leave their junior year--no matter what kind of money is mentioned-- simply because they'll have less their senior season and they can still get their college tuition money from MLB.