Brewers Offer Arb To Sabathia, Sheets, Shouse

damn, brew crew should get some good prospects from these guys

Won't Sheets cost a team two draft picks since he's a Type A free agent?

"What happens if a team signs two Type A Free Agents? They'd already have given their first round pick to the first team, what pick would the second team get?"

I'll just use the Yankees as an example since they're linked to basically every pithcer.

Let's say the Yankees sign Sabathia and A.J. Burnett. Because Sabathia has a higher Elias ranking than Burnett, the Brewers would get the Yankees first round pick and a pick between the first and second round. The Blue Jays would get the Yankees second round pick and a pick between the first and second round.

"Won't Sheets cost a team two draft picks since he's a Type A free agent?"

No. Teams only have to surrender one draft pick (either first or second depending on record) for a type A free agent. Type B free agents get a compensation pick between the first and second round.

Also you don't lose you pick from the previous year if for some reason the team couldn't sign him. Like the Yanks who have 2 first round picks this year, but only can lose one.

"The Brewers have drafted and developed with solid results over the past few years... This could get scary. Possibly 3 picks in the first round and 3 sandwich picks?!?! And that is on top of a farm system that is already good."

Yeah, but we lost the brains of our drafting operation when Jack Z left to be GM at Seattle. I remain optimistic that we can still get some decent picks.

Yep, that is how Boston raked in on the 2005 draft by letting Lowe, Martinez and Damon go and getting 5 1st round/sandwich picks in the deal and turned those into Clay Bucholz, Michael Bowden, Eric hansen, Jed Lowrie and Craig Hansen. So it never hurts to lose some stars to get the picks a few years down the line IF you scout well :-)