With the Chicago Cubs being a large-market club ineligible for Competitive Balance draft picks, and with them (hopefully) being competitive most years and thus drafting fairly low, they are unlikely to go into too many MLB Drafts with particularly large bonus pools. Recall, the bonus pool is the amount of money you can dole out to to draft picks, and it is made up of the “slot values” associated with all your picks in the first ten rounds. If you don’t have a lot of extra picks or don’t draft particularly high, then the slot values associated with your picks will be on the lower end, and thus your total pool will also be on the lower end.
That said, in years when the Cubs pick up a Compensation Pick for losing a free agent – like Kyle Tucker – then they do get a little something extra in their bonus pool stocking.
So it is this year for the Cubs, who added pick number 75 for Tucker’s departure, which comes with an extra $1.12 million for their overall bonus pool.
That pool totals just over $9.64 million for the Cubs this year, per the figures just released by MLB. That’s still only the 20th largest pool, and less than half that of the teams at the very top. The Pirates and Cardinals are near the top this year, the Reds are close to the Cubs, and the Brewers have one of the smaller pools:
Pirates: $19,130,700Rays: $19,009,300White Sox: $17,592,100Twins: $16,929,600Cardinals: $16,612,300Royals: $15,954,000Braves: $15,870,800Rockies: $15,557,600Giants: $14,080,400Athletics: $13,840,300Astros: $13,712,700Diamondbacks: $13,603,100Orioles: $13,114,000Guardians: $12,573,900Nationals: $12,278,300Marlins: $11,960,100Angels: $11,755,400Reds: $10,758,500Rangers: $10,219,200Cubs: $9,644,100Padres: $9,479,000Tigers: $9,165,100Red Sox: $8,219,200Mariners: $8,218,200Brewers: $8,042,900Phillies: $7,773,000Yankees: $7,342,800Mets: $6,730,900Blue Jays: $5,543,100Dodgers: $3,951,900
Teams may exceed their bonus pool by up to 5% before incurring future pick penalties (in that window up to 5% overage, you merely pay a tax), and the Cubs are one of only three clubs that have done so every single year of the pool system’s existence (Giants and Dodgers). Historically, the Cubs aim to go exactly 5% over, which means they’ll be able to commit just over $10 million total to draft pick signings this year.
The 2026 MLB Draft takes place July 11 through 13, just ahead of the All-Star Game.
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