FA Discussion Thread

[rcankosy]

The listing below, taken from the A and B Free Agents page, is great.  Ben (BrewersGM) year after year mops up early picks.  It is amazing to me.  Kudos Ben.  If only we could all get 500 extra picks every season.   

Edwin Encarnacion missed being a Type A free agent by .08 points!  He would have been top 10 easily if he had not missed nearly the last most of the season due to injury.

[papps]

I think RP compensation is way out of whack.

[OUDAN]

adds another solid SP in Hammels now just need a MI

[VolsRaysBucs]

was able to land the entire LF platoon of RL Rays (DeJesus/Guyer) for 5.5m total as well as add six pitchers (Storen, Qualls, Frasor, Ohlendorf, Hellweg, Neimann) for 3m total. For those scoring at home, that's half a bullpen, a starting OF batting leadoff, young SP on spec contract and two lotto tickets for 8.5m investment for 2014. Baseball on a budget, baby! 

[Brent]

I think RP compensation is way out of whack.

As it is in every league here on ProFSL.  I lost my 1st for winning a garbage azz RP in The Bush League. 

[Orange Country]

Has the FGM Rules Committee looked at this recently?

[joeshmoe]

Just because people don't like loosing draft picks for signing high value RP is no reason to change a rule.  The rule doesn't target one position over another.  It's a fair rule and it works.  It's getting old that managers call for a rule change every time they don't like the way a specific rule works for there team.

Furthermore, removing RPs from standardized free agent procedure is again going to destroy the market and value of pitchers.  Haven't we done that enough?  Why not remove RPs completely from the roster?  That'd fix the problem too. 

[Colby]

Edwin Encarnacion missed being a Type A free agent by .08 points!  He would have been top 10 easily if he had not missed nearly the last most of the season due to injury.

That was definitely a rough one missing him.  Ben does have a knack for working the trade market to get compensation picks.

[Brewers GM]

Has the FGM Rules Committee looked at this recently?

The value of RP's is set based on the scoring breakdown we use from Bill James, an estimate at reflecting true value.  The compensation rules are directly from MLB.  I've never really looked carefully, but what does the MLB market for RP's look like with respect to compensation?  Do most FA RP's that would require lost picks go untouched?

[rcankosy]

The value of RP's is set based on the scoring breakdown we use from Bill James, an estimate at reflecting true value.  The compensation rules are directly from MLB.  I've never really looked carefully, but what does the MLB market for RP's look like with respect to compensation?  Do most FA RP's that would require lost picks go untouched?

I would like to make two points:

1.  The salary grids were based on real life contracts, and the largest of those contracts were based on relief pitchers who accumulated SAVES, not the stats we are using.
2.  I am almost certain that relief pitchers are exempt from first round compensation.