Comp Picks
Jun 10, 2012 9:45:17 GMT -5
Post by Ben (Rays GM) on Jun 10, 2012 9:45:17 GMT -5
Just a reminder that with the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Elias Sports Bureau is no longer using rankings to classify free agents and determine whether the team losing the free agent would receive a draft pick:
"Major league free agent compensation will be completely revised in 2013, with a team having to offer its former players who became free agents the average of the top 125 contracts -- currently about $12.4 million -- to receive draft-pick compensation if a player signs with a new team. It eliminates the statistical formula that had been in place since the 1981 strike settlement."
espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7269300/major-league-baseball-players-owners-sign-new-labor-agreement
Starting with the free agent class for this offseason, we will have to modify our compensation rules because we were using the same Elias Rankings to determine compensation, and these rankings will no longer be available. We will still have compensation, but it will be determined using a different formula.
Some possibilities:
Base compensation on Yahoo rank for the previous one or two seasons.
Base compensation on salary offered, as MLB is doing.
The CBA also states that a team who traded for a player in the last season of his contract cannot earn compensation for that player the following offseason. This will not be the case for this season, as it is too late to put a change like this into effect, but we may consider it for following seasons.
Feel free to discuss ideas about these changes here.
"Major league free agent compensation will be completely revised in 2013, with a team having to offer its former players who became free agents the average of the top 125 contracts -- currently about $12.4 million -- to receive draft-pick compensation if a player signs with a new team. It eliminates the statistical formula that had been in place since the 1981 strike settlement."
espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7269300/major-league-baseball-players-owners-sign-new-labor-agreement
Starting with the free agent class for this offseason, we will have to modify our compensation rules because we were using the same Elias Rankings to determine compensation, and these rankings will no longer be available. We will still have compensation, but it will be determined using a different formula.
Some possibilities:
Base compensation on Yahoo rank for the previous one or two seasons.
Base compensation on salary offered, as MLB is doing.
The CBA also states that a team who traded for a player in the last season of his contract cannot earn compensation for that player the following offseason. This will not be the case for this season, as it is too late to put a change like this into effect, but we may consider it for following seasons.
Feel free to discuss ideas about these changes here.
