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Apparently the 12 picks awarded next week can also be traded. Brewers gonna get that extra first round pick. 
On the 16th of July, baseball will conduct its first “Competitive Balance Lottery.”
This new wrinkle is part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement which was signed last November. The idea is to give the lowest revenue teams a chance to add one more solid prospect to their farm system each year, as these teams are obviously the clubs who are most likely to lose high-dollar free agents along the way.
The ten smallest-market teams will be in the lottery, and the ten lowest-revenue teams will be there too. There is plenty of crossover on the two lists, and a team can only be counted once, so this year, there will be 13 teams in the lottery.
The teams who will be eligible to win an extra draft pick in next year’s draft are as follows:
Arizona
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado
Kansas City
Miami
Milwaukee
Oakland
Pittsburgh
St Louis
San Diego
Tampa Bay
Six picks will be awarded – the odds of winning a pick will be based on the team’s winning percentage from the prior season. In this case, that would mean Arizona, Milwaukee, St Louis and Tampa Bay will face longer odds of winning than teams like Kansas City and San Diego.
These six picks will take place after round one of the draft, right after the compensation picks teams receive for losing a marquee free agent. One key wrinkle…these lottery picks can be traded.
An additional six picks will be awarded, again by lottery, with the seven teams who did not win a pick being eligible, if there happens to be a team that receives revenue sharing, which had somehow not made the list of teams in the first lottery…that team will be added to the second lottery. These six picks will take place after round two of the draft. Again, these picks can be traded.
Only the team that won the pick in the lottery can trade that pick (which is to say, it can only be traded once), the picks can’t be sold…AND…the picks can only be traded prior to the end of THIS regular season.
So, fans of the thirteen teams listed above, pay attention. On the 16th, twelve of your teams will win an extra pick in next year’s draft…and you may very well see some of these picks included in trades prior to this year’s trade deadline.
IF a team exceeds its bonus pool, (paying more money to sign their picks up through round ten than they were budgeted by MLB), that team could forfeit up to its first round pick the following year. Any forfeited picks will also be awarded to another team via lottery, with all teams who DID NOT exceed their signing bonus allotment being eligible to win. The odds of winning this lottery would be based on a formula that uses a blend of team revenue and winning percentage. At this time, it does not appear as though any team will forfeit picks in next year’s draft.
This…could be fun.
This new wrinkle is part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement which was signed last November. The idea is to give the lowest revenue teams a chance to add one more solid prospect to their farm system each year, as these teams are obviously the clubs who are most likely to lose high-dollar free agents along the way.
The ten smallest-market teams will be in the lottery, and the ten lowest-revenue teams will be there too. There is plenty of crossover on the two lists, and a team can only be counted once, so this year, there will be 13 teams in the lottery.
The teams who will be eligible to win an extra draft pick in next year’s draft are as follows:
Arizona
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado
Kansas City
Miami
Milwaukee
Oakland
Pittsburgh
St Louis
San Diego
Tampa Bay
Six picks will be awarded – the odds of winning a pick will be based on the team’s winning percentage from the prior season. In this case, that would mean Arizona, Milwaukee, St Louis and Tampa Bay will face longer odds of winning than teams like Kansas City and San Diego.
These six picks will take place after round one of the draft, right after the compensation picks teams receive for losing a marquee free agent. One key wrinkle…these lottery picks can be traded.
An additional six picks will be awarded, again by lottery, with the seven teams who did not win a pick being eligible, if there happens to be a team that receives revenue sharing, which had somehow not made the list of teams in the first lottery…that team will be added to the second lottery. These six picks will take place after round two of the draft. Again, these picks can be traded.
Only the team that won the pick in the lottery can trade that pick (which is to say, it can only be traded once), the picks can’t be sold…AND…the picks can only be traded prior to the end of THIS regular season.
So, fans of the thirteen teams listed above, pay attention. On the 16th, twelve of your teams will win an extra pick in next year’s draft…and you may very well see some of these picks included in trades prior to this year’s trade deadline.
IF a team exceeds its bonus pool, (paying more money to sign their picks up through round ten than they were budgeted by MLB), that team could forfeit up to its first round pick the following year. Any forfeited picks will also be awarded to another team via lottery, with all teams who DID NOT exceed their signing bonus allotment being eligible to win. The odds of winning this lottery would be based on a formula that uses a blend of team revenue and winning percentage. At this time, it does not appear as though any team will forfeit picks in next year’s draft.
This…could be fun.
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