Absolutely. That's a pretty big signing bonus for 1990. I worked sports medicine for several years for a fairly high-level college wooden bat team. We'd have a couple guys get drafted each year. Some guys would play for us for a year or 2 and then go to the Cape Cod league and get drafted after that.

We had one kid once who had a pretty horrific, non-baseball injury. He was on track to be an early/mid round pick before the injury sidetracked him.

He rehabbed for 2 years, missed 2 seasons of college, and one season of summer. He went undrafted (because he hadn't pitched in 2ish years and no one knew if his limbs worked properly). He made his first start since the injury with us and did very well. He started 5 or 6 games before getting signed.

They gave him a $35k signing bonus but I'm pretty sure he only got that because he was highly thought of before, was stellar in 5 or 6 games, and most importantly, he was on the open market and held a bidding war that drafted players can't do.

All our other players, who I stayed in touch with or heard through the grapevine later, never got signing bonuses unless they were picked very early (like top 3-5 rounds or so). Most stick sryound for 1-3 years and then dissappear into selling insurance or working baseball clinics.