I was just going to post how Boras just came out and basically told the Nationals that for Strasburg he's going to want: 50% equity in the club, all the concession revenues, and everybody in the organizations' first and second born children:
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Boras wouldn't give numbers, but he's expected to ask for a package worth several times the value of the current high-water mark of $10.5 million that Mark Prior received in 2001.
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Baseball draft: No. 1 draft pick Stephen Strasburg of the Washington Nationals is among best of the best, agent Scott Boras says - ESPN
So I was thinking, hmm, if MLB won't go to collectively bargained slotted contracts and they don't want to allow draft pick trading, what if the Nationals were at least allowed to trade their rights to negotiate with Strasburg to someone else? But it'd be just as bad trading picks, only worse because you're limiting yourself to what you're trading away.
As the article says, it would give the agents more power. The only solution really is just to have collectively bargained slotted contracts. Personally, I can't wait. I'm tired of teams passing on hundreds of players due to "signability".