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Major League Baseball will kick off its 2021 amateur draft on Sunday evening. For the first time, the draft will coincide with the All-Star Game festivities, right down to being hosted in the same city (Denver, Colorado this year). . , highlighting the prospects widely considered to be the best in the cla s. A theme throughout the top 50 is the concept of signability, or whether a player is willing to ink a contract ahead of the August 1 deadline. Signability is one of the unseen movers in the draft, as it tends to dictate who slips and who rises.By way of example, there were three notable prospects on the top 50, in Will Taylor, Bubba Malcolm Miller Jersey Chandler, and Lonnie White Jr. Teams undoubtedly have a feel for what amount of money it will take for each of those three to abandon the gridiron for the diamond on a permanent basis. As a result, they could each Henry Ellenson Jersey go much higher (or lower) than the public consensus, based solely on their financial asks.A more casual observer might wonder, how does this whole system even work? Are teams limited in how much they can spend on a player? And what happens if the player doesn't sign? In the name of community service, we've answered some of the most frequently asked questions below. E sentially, "recommends" a bonus amount for every pick in the first 10 rounds. The highest value belongs to the No. 1 pick ($8.4 million), with that number decreasing by roughly $6 million over the course of the first round. Those values add up to give teams a total pool of money that they can allocate how they see fit -- even if it means going over or under a given "slot" value.Duh. How else would MLB suppre s the draftees' negotiating leverage? Teams are aggre sively taxed on their overage up to 5 percent. After Patrick McCaw Jersey that, they stand to forfeit future draft picks. Predictably, no team has gone over the 5 percent threshold since the hard slotting system was implemented nearly a decade ago.From a team perspective, it means that the player's slot value is deducted from their overall bonus pool. It also means, depending on when the player was selected, that the team receives a compensatory pick in the following draft of the original pick spot plus one as atonement. (This applies only to players chosen in the first two rounds.) From a player perspective, it can mean a couple different things. A player attending a junior college can enter the following year's draft without i sue. A player going from high school to a traditional four-year college, Stanley Johnson Jersey however, has to wait until after their junior year to re-enter the draft unle s they qualify as a draft-eligible sophomore based on their age. Jack Leiter, for example, is eligible this year instead of next year because he turned 21 in April.There's also the route. Stewart didn't sign after being taken eighth in the 2018 cla s. .You might wonder, how often do teams misfire on these decisions? Probably not as frequently as you'd expect. Every first-round pick in the past two cla ses has signed. You have to go back to 2018 Malachi Flynn Jersey , Stewart's cla s, to find examples of players who didn't sign. Coincidentally, two of the unsigned players from that year, and Gunnar Hoglund, are likely to come off the board this first round as well.Over the past five drafts, there've been only three players who didn't sign after being selected in the top 30 of their cla s. In other words, when a player is selected on Sunday, take it as a nod that they're going to turn profe sional.