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MLB Should Threaten Tanking Teams With Relegation
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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1475107" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>This year has been pretty extreme in the American League, with literally half the teams punting on the season. The National League was far better with really only the Marlins actively trying to lose.</p><p></p><p>I think one of the problems is the draft pick penalties for signing free agents. It really puts teams in the middle of the pack in terms of talent in a situation where they have to decide whether to try to improve through the draft or through free agency, because they can’t really do both. And since young players are so much cheaper than veterans players, they pretty much always choose the draft. Draft pick penalties for signing free agents should be eliminated.</p><p></p><p>Another issue is too many players not hitting free agency until they’re in their 30s. Teams that are a couple years away won’t sign older free agents because they’re afraid they’ll be too old by the time the rest of the team can compete. Get younger players hitting free agency and teams a couple years away will go after those younger players - like Manny Machado and San Diego. It might be better to tie free agency to age instead of service time.</p><p></p><p>Overall, baseball needs to be doing a better job of making sure the best 750-ish players in the world are on major league rosters. Which isn’t the case when for whatever reasons Dallas Keuchel, Vlad Jr and Craig Kimbrel are sitting at home for long stretches of the season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1475107, member: 26283"] This year has been pretty extreme in the American League, with literally half the teams punting on the season. The National League was far better with really only the Marlins actively trying to lose. I think one of the problems is the draft pick penalties for signing free agents. It really puts teams in the middle of the pack in terms of talent in a situation where they have to decide whether to try to improve through the draft or through free agency, because they can’t really do both. And since young players are so much cheaper than veterans players, they pretty much always choose the draft. Draft pick penalties for signing free agents should be eliminated. Another issue is too many players not hitting free agency until they’re in their 30s. Teams that are a couple years away won’t sign older free agents because they’re afraid they’ll be too old by the time the rest of the team can compete. Get younger players hitting free agency and teams a couple years away will go after those younger players - like Manny Machado and San Diego. It might be better to tie free agency to age instead of service time. Overall, baseball needs to be doing a better job of making sure the best 750-ish players in the world are on major league rosters. Which isn’t the case when for whatever reasons Dallas Keuchel, Vlad Jr and Craig Kimbrel are sitting at home for long stretches of the season. [/QUOTE]
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