Trading Draft Picks in 2011

[Needle Juice]

Allowed or not?  Also, if not why?

Just curious.

[bravesfan4]

We are not allowed. Reason is in real life, MLB does not allow trading of picks.

[joeshmoe]

I think it hurts for two reasons.

1)  Draft picks are valuable pieces for weaker teams, especially in trades.

2)  Sometimes a pick can be the little extra a deal needs in order to get completed, where players get more complicated.

[Needle Juice]

In real baseball I understand, but if in fantasy baseball a manager chooses to go all in for this year and deal the draft picks that should be his/her choice.  The other end of this is for lower Cap teams, adding draft picks is a good way to accrue young, cheap talent.   

This is a limiting rule and sometimes being different from MLB makes sense. 

[joeshmoe]

We also have Dynasty MLB Elite for a reall MLB replica

[papps]

I think that we should be able to trade draft picks. After all this is fantasy baseball, not real baseball. I agree that it does hurt the small market teams.

[joeshmoe]

I have already had a trade fall through due to the restriction.  But because everyone is agreeing thus far, I will stop replying, haha

[bravesfan4]

I understand. I think trading the picks are an advantage for smaller teams to restock there team. I agree with you chris (both of them)

[bravesfan4]

This is league is far more of a replica of mlb than dynasty elite.

[Colby]

This is league is far more of a replica of mlb than dynasty elite.

Dynasty MLB Elite fails to represent MLB in one key aspect - financial disparity, as all teams have a $100m cap.

We have already ruled that draft picks cannot be trading going forward.  This goes with MLB unlike our cap hits, but at least we can argue that our cap hits could have been inherent within the style of the contract.