4. DENTON'S G.A.Y. CLAUSE
For the 2009 season (not 2008), shall players traded and rostered in the "other" league be deemed free agents via the the Gifted Agency Year Clause? Since a team often loses a valuable player in such scenarios (Texeira, Sabathia, Ramirez, Santana) shall we compensate a team who loses a player via inter-league trade with an additional draft pick in round that is equal to the lost players ability?
Since we are always (at least) one season behind MLB, we know in advance when a player would be lost. Should a manager elect to trade this player during the season, he would lose the right to any compensation. Likewise, the new manager would not inherit this compensation if he knew at the time of the trade that the player had switched leagues.
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YES - Compensate teams who lose top tiered players to the other league and make the player a Free Agent.
NO - Keep it simple. Continue to allow managers to keep the rights to players when they change leagues.
YES/NO - Compensate single-team managers only (if they do NOT trade the player) and allow others to maintain the rights to the players.
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I like the option of giving an incentive to single-team owners to keep the players. If you have two teams they can switch between them, but I like having a valuable reason for single team owners to keep their asset for the whole season. The way we have been doing it, they would be stupid to keep them as they will get nothing for them in the end... I vote with the Yes/No option.
ReplyDeleteI vote YES/NO. Single team managers must be compensated for a loss.
ReplyDeleteDenton votes (surprisingly) NO though he objects to the drafting of purely minor league quality players for the purpose of keeping for the “other” league when he will has a standout season (e.g., Edison Volquez).