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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
That would be my solution. What business does anyone have telling Steven Strasburg that the only team he can negotiate with is the Washington Nationals?
I'd love for there to be a journalism draft, or a engineering draft. Instead of getting a PhD from MIT and going to the highest bidder, you get drafted and go to a startup engineering firm in Fairbanks because they need to even up the competition with IBM and Raytheon and Boeing.
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And that's coming from an Oriole fan.
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
That's not correct.
The compensation pick that clubs get for failing to sign a first round pick the previous year is a one-time event only. If Washington fails to sign either of its first round picks this year, it gets no first round pick in compensation next year because it already got its one-time first round compensation pick in this year's draft for failing to sign its first round pick in last year's draft.
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Ouch! So Boras really has the Nats over a barrel then. I'm surprised they drafted him, or anyone with signability issues.
You say one-time, but you make it sound like it's more you just can't get these kinds of compensation picks in successive years. Is it really only one time only and never ever again (or until the CBA changes)? I suppose it makes sense because otherwise you could save them up for one year where you feel the draft is really deep or something.