I have a couple of considerations that were kicking around in this mostly hollow noggin of mine.

I believe there is a way to implement a luxury tax threshold.  Our salary caps are variable, and it's based on market and fluctuates based on team performance for the most part...which is realistic.  I consider those salary caps to be our "budget"...what ownership allows us to spend based on the state of the business.  The team salaries fall varying degrees below that salary cap/budget, just like what would happen in reality.  While I'm fairly certain it's not calculated this way in MLB, as I'm pretty sure it's predetermined in the CBA, 2016's luxury tax threshold was $189M, which was ~150% of the average 2015 team salary of $125M.  IF we wanted to implement a luxury tax, I think we could based on 150% of the previous year's average team salary.  Roster pages were updated to 2017 and forward, so i can't view 2016 team salaries to place a hypothetical on what the threshold would be for this year.  If there's enough interest, maybe someone can go back and look.

Additionally, our milb rosters are much shallower than real teams and thus mirroring the same draft pick rounds as compensation may not give us the desired results.  I took a look at the # of picks used in this past amateur draft to see how each round is valued within FGM:

Note: the 20 compensation picks are considered 2nd round, pushing the start of the 3rd round to pick 2 - 10, 4th started at pick 3 - 10, and 5th started at pick 4 - 10.

1st - 30 picks
2nd - 26 picks
3rd - 16 picks
4th - 15 picks
5th - 12 picks

With only 50% of the teams even leveraging the 3rd - 5th rounds, these are really the bottom of the barrel draft picks just based on our roster sizes.  So they don't really add much value in my mind from a competitive balance standpoint.

I'm just piecing this together as I type, but what if we went with a luxury tax threshold and any team above the threshold signing a $50M+ FA sends the team losing the FA their 1st round, and any team under the threshold would send a 2nd round pick. (No protected picks in the first 10 of first round.  If you're above the threshold AND finish bottom 10, you deserve to lose that top 10 pick!)

Feel free to poke holes...I'm sure I haven't thought of every gotcha.  Just wanted to throw these ideas out there before we decided on anything.

selects D.J. Peters

selects Lucas Erceg

Thanks a bunch!  Makes total sense.

As for FA's like Villar, in determining whether he should be an A or B FA, I'm assuming we default with the higher of the two.  Is that a correct assumption?

Angels select Nick Senzel.