Free Agent Compensation
Jan 15, 2011 18:01:25 GMT -5
Post by Ben (Rays GM) on Jan 15, 2011 18:01:25 GMT -5
There has been a change to the compensation system. Brian and I agree that the old rule of having to offer a player 100% of his previous year's salary in order to receive compensation made it too difficult.
New rule:
You will receive compensation when losing a Type A free agent who played for your team the previous year as long as you offered a contract with a raw annual value of at least 50% of his previous year's salary but failed to sign the player.
If anyone offers a player a contract with a raw annual value of 75% of his previous year's salary, then the team that the player played for the previous year will receive compensation regardless of whether that team made an offer that was higher than 50% of his previous year's salary, assuming they don't re-sign the player.
You will only receive compensation for Type A free agents. Compensation will take the form of a pick in the compensation round between rounds 1 and 2 of the amateur draft. The draft order of the compensation round will be determined by Elias ranking, with higher ranked players first. Official Elias rankings are not released, so we will use Eddie Bajek's reverse-engineered rankings, which can be found here for the '10-'11 offseason: www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/10/2009-10-elias-rankings.html
There might be a few minor discrepancies between Bajek's rankings and the true Elias rankings, but since we don't have the official rankings, Bajek's rankings will have final say even when we know they disagree with the official ones.
New rule:
You will receive compensation when losing a Type A free agent who played for your team the previous year as long as you offered a contract with a raw annual value of at least 50% of his previous year's salary but failed to sign the player.
If anyone offers a player a contract with a raw annual value of 75% of his previous year's salary, then the team that the player played for the previous year will receive compensation regardless of whether that team made an offer that was higher than 50% of his previous year's salary, assuming they don't re-sign the player.
You will only receive compensation for Type A free agents. Compensation will take the form of a pick in the compensation round between rounds 1 and 2 of the amateur draft. The draft order of the compensation round will be determined by Elias ranking, with higher ranked players first. Official Elias rankings are not released, so we will use Eddie Bajek's reverse-engineered rankings, which can be found here for the '10-'11 offseason: www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/10/2009-10-elias-rankings.html
There might be a few minor discrepancies between Bajek's rankings and the true Elias rankings, but since we don't have the official rankings, Bajek's rankings will have final say even when we know they disagree with the official ones.
