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Originally Posted by Spielman
Guh. This is going to be killer for the small market teams. This takes away a major impediment to big market teams developing their farm systems, and it sounds like it's going to force teams drafting early to shell out big bonuses to their draft picks thanks to the slotting system since they can't trade the pick or draft someone they can have for less money.
Unless there's other info coming on this, it doesn't sound good.
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I don't think things are that dire. Because teams like the Yanks churn through more free agents than small market teams they get a lot of compensation picks. Often more than they lose. In 2004 the Yankees had four picks between the Rays' first and second picks. The Red Sox had five 1st/1st supplemental picks in 2005.