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Message: [QUOTE="timkay99, post: 1281379, member: 635"] The kids who tend to turn down MLB for college might turn down big money at times, but this number is nowhere near what you think it is. Many times, these kids are turning down guaranteed low 5 figure signing bonuses to go to college, especially after the first 10 rounds. Even your elite ones are turning down mid-level 6 figures. The number of kids who have turned down 7 figure salaries from the MLB draft and go to college can be counted on one hand per year. If you are looking at the 2014 MLB Draft, your guy who turned down Grant money to go to school was Jacob Bukauskas. No one else turned down 7 figures from what I heard. Astros situation kind of screwed that up (if Aiken was signed, they likely would have landed Nix and Marshall for 7 figures each). Not a coincidence all 3 of those arms reneged on their 4 year college commit and have gone JUCO to re enter the draft nexy year. [/QUOTE]