MLB Rule Keeps Athletes In College

The Athletic Management writers wrote a great article recently, explaining the new rule the MLB has put into place to keep college kids in college longer. The rule that was created only allowed a certain amount of money that teams have to offer as bonuses to their first 10 round draft picks. Then everyone after the first 10 rounds was only able to be offered a bonus of 100 thousand or less. They think this will keep the athletes in college longer. Which will benefit the college teams by not losing as many players each year, and it will benefit the players by staying in college and getting their college degrees.

This rule that is being put into place will keep kids in college longer, but it may be taking away from the amount of money that they deserve for all the hard work they have been putting in. Almost every college athlete’s dreams are to make it to the big leagues and make money. So why are they taking this away from them?

I don’t like this rule as much. I have a lot of friends who are college baseball players and not one of them was happy with this rule. The only thing this benefits is the college teams. They will keep players longer and they will be better, but so will the other college baseball teams. So the only thing that is becoming better is the overall play of college baseball. I understand that a degree is important in getting a good job and everything. But isn’t MLB baseball one of the highest paying jobs out there. The reason kids leave college early to go play in the pros is determined on how much money they are offered. It is up to the athletes and families to decide whether the amount of money they are offered are good enough for them to leave college or not.

I think this rule is needs to be justified a little bit. The athletes don’t need to be taking advantaged of and have money taking away from them just because they want to raise the overall level of completion of college baseball.

Team, Athletic Management. "New MLB Rules May Help Colleges." 16 November 2012. Athletic Management. 2012 December 2012 <New MLB Rules May Help Colleges>.