Career concerns and personnel investment in the Major League Baseball player draft
研究美国职业棒球大联盟总经理的职业关注如何影响选秀投资,发现上赛季表现不佳的球队会减少对高中球员的签约奖金投入,尤其是任期较短的总经理。
Abstract This study examines the relationship between career concerns of organizational decision‐makers and their investments by analyzing data from Major League Baseball's (MLB) annual player draft. Career concerns for MLB general managers (GMs) can create incentives to prioritize near‐term success and thus spend fewer draft resources on high school players (who, being younger than college players, are less likely to provide near‐term benefit to an MLB team). Findings are consistent with this: underperforming expectations in the prior season leads teams to spend significantly smaller proportions of signing bonus dollars on high school players, an effect driven by GMs with relatively short tenures.