Sub-Section 3- Compensation for losing a FA
Item AX B(3) 1.0
The following rules shall apply only to players lost during the OFA bidding period, and beginning in 2018, a player lost will be defined as a player who has been on a given team's roster for the entire season.
On December 18, 2016, a league referendum was passed by a majority of league members to have Franchise GMs compensation rule for lost free agents mirror the provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that was ratified by Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association on December 1, 2016.
The new FGM Compensation Rules for lost free agents are as follows:
For 2018 and subsequent years thereafter:
1: Continue one draft pick compensation for Type A free agents;
2: There shall no longer be any protection of 1st Round Picks for the top ten teams in the draft (since they are losing a later round pick);
3: Draft compensation would be a 3rd Round pick--which would be taken in the same spot as the team who signed the free agent would normally have.
4: Compensation would be tied to a player who has been on a team the entire season.
5: If a Type A free agent is signed to a contract of $52.0m, or more, then the team signing that player will give up their 2nd and 5th Round picks to the player's former team.
Adopted by unanimous consent, January 9, 2021
You are not prohibited from signing more than one Type A free agents. You would normally lose a 3rd round pick if one was signed for less than $52.0m, but since you are signing two for less than $52.0m, and getting two quality players, you would lose a 2nd Round and a 3rd Round pick. The GM losing the Type A player to the highest contract would get the 2nd Round pick and the other GM would get the 3rd Round pick. If the contracts were identical, then the higher pick would go to the GM with the lowest rank in the previous year’s standings.
FAs shall be either Type A or regular.
Therefore, for Franchise GM, Type A FA are:
Top 6 C
Top 12 MI, CI
Top 15 OF
Top 30 SP
Top 6 RP
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This year's Type A Free Agents are:
CI Eugenio Suarez (#7 CI) SEA ---> TB (3rd Round to SEA)
MI Jonathan India (#11 MI) TOR ---> WAS (3rd Round to TOR)
SP Seth Lugo (#6 SP) LAA ---> NYY (3rd Round to LAA)
SP Sean Manaea (#22 SP) STL ---> OAK (3rd Round to STL)
SP Bailey Ober (#27 SP) CHW ---> STL (2nd and 5th Round to CHW)
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