Collective Bargaining Agreement impact on Chicago White Sox – Part 5
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement has brought many changes in Major League Baseball and these changes will directly affect all the franchises including the Chicago White Sox. In some radical sense while involving much analysis on multiple positions
of every baseball related matter, the CBA will be an interesting addition to the dynamic.
Covering several new rules from amateur draft along with international amateur free agents, the next big conversation leads to unfold the free agent compensation that has huge significance whenever the next season will start and the MLB teams might not think
for spending too much money on signing free agents.
Prior to this matter and before discussing, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ standing President Frank Coonelly has a different point of view seeing the free agent signings and immediate draft picks. He intelligently related the new signings of free agents and drafts
last week at a meeting of top MLB executives, who came to discuss the new CBA in detail.
Coonelly said, “The draft changes, which I’ve heard people argue will hurt clubs in markets like Pittsburgh, I think will do the exact opposite, It will make it so that the original purpose of the draft is once again achievable through the draft, and that
is the teams finishing with the poorest records should have access to the very best talent coming into the game, and the decisions will be made on talent as opposed to signability.”
He not only spoke for his team but for all the other MLB teams as well and cleared the ambiguity of new draft rules and signings of free agents. This also goes for the White Sox, who remained silent during that particular meeting despite their president
and general manager’s presence.
Coming on to the topic of free agent compensation which is somehow quite the same with the far-reaching subject of draft compensation and its connection of direct linkage through a franchise’s financial matters. The new CBA has brought many things which
are now simpler than the previous method of salary arbitration, signing a free agent, his lengthy contract, rules of team options, free agent signing with a team prior to the deadline and an offer of arbitration which usually creates many complications especially
in the offseason.
The new CBA suggests a couple of more simple changes in the off-season’s free agent market. For example the first team’s signing with other team’s type-A reliever initially will not lose their first round pick while the change will not be retroactive and
the big thing for all the remaining kind of type-A relievers almost certainly are obviously non-elite in the whole league.
However, on the other hand, at the present for the original CBA arrangement, which will go into effect in the 2012 MLB regular season, all the free agents will no-longer be graded A or B or C while the free agents who have been with any particular team for
an entire season can provide reimbursement of their current contracts. This is also imposed on any MLB free agent who is picked in the draft and can offer compensation if the team makes a qualifying offer to that free agent previous to the time limit. The
player discards that qualifying proposal and the player signs with another team instead.
Continued in Part-6
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