Saturday, June 16, 2018

A thought for the next collective bargaining agreement

As the Indians signed at least two marginal prospects for over slot after the first 10 rounds this year I had a thought.

What if, in the next collective bargaining agreement they created two separate pools with the same rules.

In rounds 1-10 you have a slot value assigned to every player.   That adds to your draft budget.   If you fail to sign a player you lose that slot value from your budget.  Just like it is now.

In rounds 11-40 you have a slot value of $100,000 assigned to every pick.   Since every team gets 30 picks that means you have $3,000,000 to play with.   However, just like in the first 10 rounds, if you fail to sign that pick you lose that slot value of $100,000.  The only difference here is if you go over your budget by 5% you lose your 10th round pick next year.   If you go over by 10% you lose your first round pick

Also, you can't use any of your first 10 round budget in the last 30 rounds and vice versa.

What this does is two things:

1. Gives teams at least as big if not a bigger budget for their first 10 round picks as they don't have to dip into that budget if they sign a player for over slot in the last 30 rounds.

2. Adds some spice to that last 30 rounds as you have a reasonable chance to believe that your team might actually be able to sign one of those late round flyers they draft as all they have to do is sign 11 college seniors for $1,000 each to get an additional million to use to sign one flyer ($1.1 cap) or a couple of flyers (some combination of $1.2 million split between those two guys).

What do you think about this change?

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