OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Draft pick compensation for FA's is gone now.

Prodigal Son · 10-23-2006, 04:44 PM

I always thought draft compensation was an ass-backwards concept anyways. Revenue disparity is what needs to be fixed, not free agency compensation.

I'm hoping this is a blessing in disguise. More teams trading prospective free agents to more teams who will resign many of them, keeping a lot of players off the FA market to begin with.

I think the old system really helped a team like the Yankees. Lots of FA's are available every year beause teams wanted the compensation draft picks. And teams in the poorer divisions of baseball weren't very responsible--they didn't care about the quality of their cast-offs since they knew they would all but surely go to another division anyways.

I'd be really happy about these changes if I was, say, an Orioles fan or a Braves fan (which I am). I think this will hurt the A's, but I thought that was an exploitive way of building a team anyway. It will hopefully also hurt the Yankees and Red Sox, too, though, since they will could have a lot slimmer pickings in FA now.

10-23-2006, 04:44 PM	#23
Prodigal Son All Star Starter Join Date: May 2006 Location: Iahiodo a.k.a. the flyover Posts: 1,635	I always thought draft compensation was an ass-backwards concept anyways. Revenue disparity is what needs to be fixed, not free agency compensation. I'm hoping this is a blessing in disguise. More teams trading prospective free agents to more teams who will resign many of them, keeping a lot of players off the FA market to begin with. I think the old system really helped a team like the Yankees. Lots of FA's are available every year beause teams wanted the compensation draft picks. And teams in the poorer divisions of baseball weren't very responsible--they didn't care about the quality of their cast-offs since they knew they would all but surely go to another division anyways. I'd be really happy about these changes if I was, say, an Orioles fan or a Braves fan (which I am). I think this will hurt the A's, but I thought that was an exploitive way of building a team anyway. It will hopefully also hurt the Yankees and Red Sox, too, though, since they will could have a lot slimmer pickings in FA now.