Quote Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer View Post

Prager's choice just means more for other picks like the 11th rounder.
This is actually not true. You can sign a Top 10 round guy for under slot and save money in your bonus pool for other draft picks BUT if you don't sign them at all then that slot money is subtracted from your overall bonus pool for this year which is a penalty. That's why so few guys in the Top 10 rounds don't sign. Usually a general agreement has been reached before a team will pick you because teams can't afford to not be signing their Top 10 round picks.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-draft-o...%20a%20penalty.