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It would be interesting to know Kenny's intent with this rule. It does NOT say cash only can be traded for players. In fact, the only direct language that addresses this is this:Cash for future seasons may also be traded if the amount is no greater than the salaries of the players involved.I just think allowing cash for picks will not prove to be a wise move. MLB doesn't allow it, not sure why we would.
Can you articulate why it's not a wise move? Technically, MLB only allows the new compensatory picks to be traded but MLB doesn't have a salary cap and MLB has a motive that we don't have here which is profitability. When you limit the money, it becomes as valuable as draft picks which are also limited. If you look at a league like the NBA, a league with a cap, they do allow the sale of draft picks. All NBA teams are allowed to include as much as $3 million a year in cash to make a trade or even buy a draft pick. I realize having a cap is necessary for this league just for the sake of balance and fairness. My team has little MLB talent and not being able to use all of my cap money or having to spend it on overpriced free agents is a big disadvantage. Allowing a bad team to buy picks can speed up a rebuilding process and allowing a talented team to sell pcks allows them to keep their established talent longer. It can be a huge benefit for teams in either position. Any concerns about selling an entire draft or something can be addressed by capping the amount of money that can be traded, $5 or $10 million per team per season.
Chris, you make some very good points. Perhaps a good solution would be to have a scale of $$ value for draft picks? I'm saying it may be unwise simply because in any of our leagues, we have owners that don't value draft picks very much, or specs either for that matter. Which is fine while the owner is in place, but too many times we see owners leave leagues after gutting the team, trading away picks and specs simply because they aren't of any special value to that particular owner. Allowing an owner to sell the pick for cash only only heightens the issue. Also, if we can trade picks for $$, why not allow teams to simply buy players for cash from another owner? After all, we do simply pay cash for FA, so why not allow teams to buy players from one another as well. My point: how do we make sure the league just doesn't become a league where the big cap teams can buy anything they want?