No more tanking?

[Backtobanks]

The next labor deal could eliminate the success of the Cubs & Astros for teams in the future:

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14214254/what-awaits-negotiations-major-league-baseball-next-labor-deal

[Guest]

Not allowing teams to draft in the top 5 in consecutive years is dumb.

 

MLB brought about the incentive to tank by tying amateur spending to draft slot. Should get rid of these spending caps that only some teams adhere to, but they're going to double down on the penalties instead.

[Geech]

Yeah, Jayson Stark is an evil person.

[NewUserName]

I don't understand why people get uptight about this. I understand if players are not trying their best to win individual games. But if a team is legitimately making moves that the end game is a champioship, why be upset? They are the ones that have to deal with their fan base, and potential lost revenue.

 

I have a lot more issue with teams that pocket revenue sharing money, in a constant rebuild, no real plan or direction, constantly complaining that the rules are stacked against them.

[NewUserName]

I don't understand why people get uptight about this. I understand if players are not trying their best to win individual games. But if a team is legitimately making moves that the end game is a champioship, why be upset? They are the ones that have to deal with their fan base, and potential lost revenue.

 

I have a lot more issue with teams that pocket revenue sharing money, in a constant rebuild, no real plan or direction, constantly complaining that the rules are stacked against them.

[Andy]

Agree with Raisin - if MLB doesn't want teams to tank, get rid of the piles of incentives they put in to do it.

[UMFan83]

I don't understand why people get uptight about this. I understand if players are not trying their best to win individual games. But if a team is legitimately making moves that the end game is a champioship, why be upset? They are the ones that have to deal with their fan base, and potential lost revenue.

 

I have a lot more issue with teams that pocket revenue sharing money, in a constant rebuild, no real plan or direction, constantly complaining that the rules are stacked against them.

 

I think the people that get upset because they believe these teams are exploiting the system they set up. But guess what? Teams are going to find loopholes in any system you come up with just like they did this time, and last time and the time before that.

[davell]

I can't see how they could stop it. Not picking in the top 5 twice in a row would help, but to me, it'd just make teams even quicker to trade guys off that aren't clearly inside their projected window.

 

To me, things were much better prior to this CBA. Just go back to it for draft/IFA stuff. There's always going to be teams overspending. At least before, the small teams were able to do it easier than they can now.

[Guest]

I don't understand why people get uptight about this. I understand if players are not trying their best to win individual games. But if a team is legitimately making moves that the end game is a champioship, why be upset? They are the ones that have to deal with their fan base, and potential lost revenue.

 

I have a lot more issue with teams that pocket revenue sharing money, in a constant rebuild, no real plan or direction, constantly complaining that the rules are stacked against them.

 

I think the issue is that MLB(and most every sport) is designed around teams trying to win each year. There's been teams going through rebuilding years/phases forever, but in the new CBA they are actively incentivized to be as bad as possible. Not only does that push them to the top of the draft order, but it gives them more pool money to work with, and protects their first round pick when signing QO FAs. As Cubs fans we should be intimately aware of the downside here, we just won 97 games and got to go to Pittsburgh for the Wild Card while the Mets played in the NLDS as a 90 game winner who would've won 83-85 without 60 games against the Marlins, Braves, and Phillies.

 

I don't know if banning teams from the Top 5 in consecutive years really does much, but there are some things you can do to address this:

 

- Lottery the Top X draft slots, like Stark mentioned

- Protect the 1st round pick of everyone not in the playoffs, or everyone altogether (the players union would like this too)

- Make the Top X draft pools equal

 

I don't know if it's the number 1 problem to lead a 'what needs fixed in the next CBA article', but it is something that should be touched on in some form. To go back to the Mets, it's not even December yet and we know they're going to have 78 games against teams that do not plan on winning next year(Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Colorado). That's bad for competition and for business.

[Tryptamine]

I really would like they made the draft a free for all again. Let some team dump 25M to completely revamp their farm system in one year instead of having to do it over a 3 year period.

[davell]

I really would like they made the draft a free for all again. Let some team dump 25M to completely revamp their farm system in one year instead of having to do it over a 3 year period.

 

Those days are over. Too many teams value the draft and there'd be plenty of teams willing to spend on the top 50/100 types that plan on going to school. Of course you could find ways to spend 25 mill, but its not likely to become anything close to a wise investment. You'd be signing 5-10 guys that aren't top 2-3 round talents and making them forego college.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Eliminate the draft altogether. When you turn 18, you can sign with any team you want for any contract length you want.

 

Total revenue sharing to make it fair.

 

I know it will never, ever come close to happening, but it would be amazing.

[Guest]

The first thing they need to fix is to stop giving the Cardinals competitive balance picks.

 

Edit: the second thing is to ban Loria forever.

[radarluv1]

Three #1 overall picks in a row can't happen.