Re: Draft

[Optimist]

I asked this questions somewhere else, but it got lost in a big conversation. Could someone explain the draft process to me? Like, all this talk about getting higher picks for letting FAs go...how does that work?

[ORS]

Players are rated as top 1/3, middle 1/3, lower 1/3 by the Elias Rating Bureau every year. Those in the top 1/3 that are FAs are called type-A, middle type-B, lower type-C. When a team signs a type-A FA, they give their 1st round pick (unless it is a top-15 pick, those are protected and they give up the 2nd round pick) to the team that lost the player. The team that lost the player also gets a supplemental pick for the lost player. The type-A supplemental round is between the 1st and 2nd round. Type-B gets a 2nd round pick and 2nd/3rd round supplemental pick. For this draft compensation to occur, the team that loses the player must offer that player arbitration before Nov. 15. If they don't offer arbitration, they get no draft compensation if the player signs elsewhere, and they lose the right to sign the player until May 1 of the following year. That was as quick and easy as I could make it.

[Optimist]

Makes sense.

 

Thanks!