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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Draft pick compensation to replenish lost talent
I talked about this a year or two ago that comp picks should be limited to the team who actually spent all their player development resources on the player. So, Orlando Hudson would only be a Type A had he become a free agent as a Blue Jays. RJ looks at this:
...but the point is: if the compensation rules are designed to replenish teams losing homegrown talent, then examples like this one prove that it doesn’t work. At least, if these examples are in the vast majority, which is what we’ll examine later today.
Of course, I’d prefer to not have comp picks at all, as it was an arcane structure designed when free agency was very much a crapshoot, with no precedence from other leagues to offer guidance. Now we know better, so no reason to be stuck to what was created in a vacuum 35 years ago. Other than “tradition” and “bargaining chip” of course.