http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/2012/11/comp-free-agents-include-three-yanks/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/2012/11/comp-free-agents-include-three-yanks/comment-page-1/#comment-164745 Allen Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:12:19 +0000 http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/?p=5554#comment-164745 How is the order of picks determined?

]]> http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/2012/11/comp-free-agents-include-three-yanks/comment-page-1/#comment-164656 Steven Alengakis Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:12:30 +0000 http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/?p=5554#comment-164656 I think this new system for determining compensation is quite good. By forcing teams to make qualifying offers you get a real measure of whether a player is a "Type-A" free agent or one of the better players in the league. For example, the Yankees wouldn't dare make such an offer to Russell Martin or Ichiro or Ibanez — even though they probably want those players back. With Swisher, Kuroda, and Soriano, they know these players atre likely to get much bigger offers from other teams and, worst-case scenario, they'd be back at reasonable prices and just one year. The same goes for the other players on this list. I also think this will allow the free agents that are not made qualifying offers get more interest from teams since they won't have to worry about giving up draft compensation.  

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