New CBA thread

[davell]

I really like the idea here. Spend big one year, go way overslot. If budget is 9, spend 15. Still not sure whether we'd be paying 30 mill for that or 21 mill, if it's just taxed on overage. Either way, following year the slot goes WAY down due to not having a 1st or 2nd. That's really when you use the senior signings to your advantage. Spend like 300,000 on 6 guys and the rest on 2 guys that fall. Yeah, you're signing more and more organizational guys, but you're still bringing in some bigtime talent as well each season. And over a 2 year period, you're still spending around the same as we'd have probably allocated, just in a much different way. I fully expect Theo and Jed to find whatever loopholes there are and this may be one. Yeah, you gotta pay up a bit more to do this, but it's the easiest way for us to still build the system up quickly.

[jersey cubs fan]

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/you-change-it-you-buy-it/

 

But tucked into its many pages is a curious addition that obligates any player who changes his uniform number during the season to buy any the unsold jerseys and other licensed goods that have his name and old number on them.

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Players who get traded during the season will be exempt because they wear an entirely new uniform.

[davearm2]

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/you-change-it-you-buy-it/

 

But tucked into its many pages is a curious addition that obligates any player who changes his uniform number during the season to buy any the unsold jerseys and other licensed goods that have his name and old number on them.

...

Players who get traded during the season will be exempt because they wear an entirely new uniform.

This is already in place in the NFL, I believe. I recall that the league wanted Chad Johnson to buy up all his old jerseys when he switched his name to "Ochocinco". Apparently there's a certain date by which name/number changes have to be submitted to the league, before merchandise production for the coming season begins. You miss the deadline - you buy the stuff.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

July 31 of the previous season.

[Clem Fandango]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7356002/panel-study-major-league-baseball-needs-international-player-draft

 

NEW YORK -- Mets general manager Sandy Alderson, Tampa Bay executive vice president Andrew Friedman and retired player Tony Clark have been appointed to a committee to study whether baseball should have an international draft.

 

Retired player Stan Javier, Kim Ng of the commissioner's office and Rick Shapiro of the players' association also will be on the committee, which is co-chaired by union head Michael Weiner and MLB executive vice president Rob Manfred.

 

The committee, established in the new collective bargaining agreement, will hold its first meeting by Jan. 15.

 

Currently, the June draft is limited to players who are residents of the U.S., U.S. territories and Canada, with residents of other nations free agents.

 

The committee will discuss several issues, including: whether international amateurs should be subject to a draft; whether there should be a single worldwide draft or a separate international draft; the age for signing international amateurs; which draft Puerto Rican players should be in if there are multiple drafts; and how to deal with players leaving Cuba.

[RammyFanny]

Was thinking about this last night...

 

Considering that IFA is only penalized the following year, while the draft can be penalized for 2 years into the future, would it make sense to alternate which one to spend crazy on each year?

 

For instance, let's say for this season we would stick roughly to slot for the draft, but go absolutely crazy in IFA and pick up a ton of the high profile guys.

 

The following year, we go crazy overslot everywhere in the draft, and have to stick within our $250,000 penalty for IFA.

 

Then the next year, we'd be free to go crazy again in IFA while adhering to the penalties for the draft. Still, we could choose to sign a few top end guys in the 3rd round or so of the draft and screw worrying about organizational fillers.

 

Seems like a way of getting a ton of talent each year while not having to go through one down year where we have to adhere to penalties on both.

 

If you wanted to get really crazy, you could forfeit the 6th pick this year, sign some 1st round worthy guys in the supplemental/2nd round, go crazy in IFA, and then have two top picks the following year to go crazy on when you spend big in the draft.

 

Just thinking out loud.