I would expect that if you can't negotiate with a player and you retain the draft pick that you either lose the draft pick if you sign the player a reasonable time after the draft, or like you suggest cannot negotiate with the player until then. That seems reasonable.
For now I've been taking advantage of the "loophole" and rolling the dice. I have noticed that if I forget to go back and offer a minor league contract that other teams snatch the player up.
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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Didn’t that basically happen to JD Drew in the 90s? I think what happened there - and perhaps this should be in the game too but it’s probably not easy to implement - was that the team that drafted him (the Phillies?) were unable to negotiate with him for one year. I think they still retained draft rights to him as well so he wound up playing in an independent league for a season.
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