Draft Pick Swaps and Pay for Baseball Info Quickie
Two completely different topics:
MLB DRAFT
I am excited to see ESPN2 will be televising the first day of the draft. With that in mind I have always wondered why MLB insists on not allowing teams to trade draft picks. I wanted to solicit the group to see if anyone has any ideas on this? Seems like a decent way to add some excitement...
SUBSCRIPTION BASEBALL INFO
I can't get enough good baseball content and am currently subscribing to ESPN Insider, Scout.com, and Baseball America. I am planning to drop Scout.com and possibly ESPN Insider, but am looking to replace the content. I was looking into baseball prospectus but wanted to see if anyone in the group had reccomendations on good baseball content.
Thanks.
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BP is great
by mikedallas23 on May 14, 2007 10:16 PM EDT 0 recs
Also
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May 15, 2007 11:02 AM EDT
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I'm a BP fan
Hardball Times
Rotoworld
Rotoworld has a fantasy tilt but their playernews is second to none in keeping up to date with the league, imho
by azruavatar on May 14, 2007 11:36 PM EDT 0 recs
Couple things
The argument on trading draft picks is that they are trying to prevent cheap teams from being cheaper and big markets from dominating. The Royals would've dealt their first rounder for peanuts almost every year before the '05 draft because they really just didn't want to pay anyone. It's pretty dumb considering more times than not the best talent ends up falling due to the sixth tool "signability" anyway but that's the way it is.
Unfortunately, the financial big-timers are steadily ramping up their draft spending anyway (which is actually very smart, I don't know why big-teams don't just blow their load on the draft now...you are getting players for probably 70% of what their actual value is to you even if you overpay). There's no real way of stopping this due to the MLB's monopoly status meaning they can't slot the draft bonuses. Commish can wag his finger and that's about it.
by joker24 on May 15, 2007 3:40 PM EDT 0 recs
Thanks for the info everyone
As for trading draft picks, I just don't see how it could hurt. Even if you were the Royals trading a #1 overall pick for a #27, #38, and #60 and some other player I am not sure you are in a worse position than if you would have drafted Brian Bullington based on signability at #1 overall...
My guess on the reason it hasn't happened is the inherent hazards related to trading for draft picks. For instance, say you are the Royals and you trade Odalis Perez to the Orioles for their #1 pick in the 2008 draft, the issue with MLB vs. all other sports is that #1 pick probably won't participate for the Royals until 2011 at the earliest. So you are essentially trading a player in 2007 for a 50% chance at a player in 2011.
Different for sure, but I don't see why it shouldn't be a possibility.
by Lawless on May 15, 2007 5:10 PM EDT 0 recs











