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A'sfaninUK
Not really fair to blame a guy for getting his ear chewed off my a psychotic teammate, nor is it the players fault the team blocked their Cuban signee’s with well-known former All-Stars.
Niekro
What happens to undrafted players from Puerto Rico do they just become normal free agents? Would that same thing happen in international draft for undrafted guys?
Blue_Painted_Dreams_LA
A lot play college baseball even if they are drafted because of the money potential. But yes they’d be allowed to sign with anyone.
JoeyPankake
Any team caught dealing with buscones should be banned from any international signings for 5 years.
vtadave
“Secretive baseball diamonds”. Sounds awesome!
paulslc
I heard the buscon was secretly negotiating with Agency86 in the Cone of Silence.
BlueSkyLA
Right, chief!
disgruntledreader 2
It’s comments like these that remind me that MLBTR really ought to add an upvote feature to their commenting tool.
Kayrall
How would an international draft affect teams’ facilities in foreign countries? If those players discovered in these facilities become subject to an international draft, wouldn’t that deter teams from dedicating as much money as they do to keeping up and active in those regions?
Niekro
Yes, that is what happened in Puerto Rico teams did not want to spend money developing players that could just be drafted by a different team. I think MLB would keep baseball schools available though or at least I’d hope they would.
tim815
Any time I see international and/or draft limits mentioned, I get very tempted to toss off my idea again, which doesn’t seem to have many downsides.
Running the research and development angle in an industry is a major part of success. A team ought to know that this important part of putting together a functioning team won’t be spited away for doing well. That said, a reasonable minimum should be ascertained for the three different wings of development; those being the draft, J2 prospects, and veteran international free agents.
A reasonable minimum ought to be come up with for each of the phases, so GMs and scouting departments know they will continue to thrive into the future, even if they have a stretch of big league success.
For the first two groups, I’d think a *minimum* of $4-$6 million per year makes sense. Each team could know they could get a few intriguing youngsters in the draft, and internationally, every season. I imagine the teams less interested in (spending on) development would prefer the lower numbers, and teams more possessed on developing would like the higher numbers.
Make the penalties for exceeding very harsh. My comment to get the premise rolling would be “lose three draft classes”. No, it wouldn’t be that, but the caveat gets the point across.
For veteran spending, allow each team ‘an amount’ over three years that they can spend, however they want. My guess would be $6-$8 million per annum over a three year window, with each team having the same amount. If you want the next Gurriel brother, you spend $15 million on him. Then, you have three million for the rest of the time.
If owners won’t spend $14-$20 million on incoming talent every year, they should sell to someone who will. Teams could have stipends above the minimums allowed. However, providing a solid minimum should allow teams to find college, prep, and international talent every season, to allow the developmental process to continue.
notagain27
International Draft would have ZERO effects on teams facilities in Dominican and Venezuela. Those facilities main functions are to provide developmental opportunities for players ALREADY under contract. Each ML team is only allowed a certain number of working Visa slots by the United States government and wouldn’t be able to bring every foreign player they have under contract into the US even if they wanted to. Puerto Rico is a US territory and those players fall under the same draft guidelines as any other player would from the any state inside the US. The International Draft will happen because teams that aren’t major market teams currently can’t outbid the Cubs, Dodgers, Red Sox, Yankees, ect, for high profile players currently becoming available.