This is quite literally how the MLB draft works.
Pool money (and where you can save it to spend elsewhere) is the main driver. Unless a Skenes, Strasburg, or Harper, huge savings going under slot with the 1st pick, then accumulating as much talent over slot later as possible.
This just doesn’t matter in the MLB draft. 🤷♂️
He’s gonna pass up any of the teams 1-3 for like $1m more to go to SF? Would be insane.