2012 MLB Competitive Balance Lottery

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  • Goober
    Needs a hobby
    • Feb 2009
    • 12271

    2012 MLB Competitive Balance Lottery

    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.
  • EmpireWF
    Giants in the Super Bowl
    • Mar 2009
    • 24082

    #2
    2012 MLB Competitive Balance Lottery

    Well this snuck up. Later this afternoon at the Commissioner's office, MLB will hold a draft lottery to award two groups of 6 picks to teams considered to be small market or low revenue.

    The 2013 first round picks will come after the first round compensation picks. Teams eligible for these 6 picks include Arizona, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Oakland, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Tampa, Cincinnati, Colorado, Miami, Milwaukee and St. Louis.

    After those 6 picks are awarded, the remaining teams plus Detroit (the only team that gets revenue sharing money) will then become eligible for 6 other picks to be had at the end of the second round.

    The results won't be announced publicly until 2:45et on the MLB Network.

    The caveat to all this is the fact that these 12 picks can be TRADED. The stipulations are they can only be traded once, only during this season (no off-season moving) and they cannot be sold. Teams can trade these picks beginning tomorrow up until the end of the regular season.



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    • Goober
      Needs a hobby
      • Feb 2009
      • 12271

      #3
      Brewers won a draft pick. :jizz:

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      • EmpireWF
        Giants in the Super Bowl
        • Mar 2009
        • 24082

        #4
        They can certainly use the help...

        First Round Comp Picks
        1. Royals
        2. Pirates
        3. Diamondbacks
        4. Orioles
        5. Reds
        6. Marlins

        Second Round Comp Picks
        1. Padres
        2. Indians
        3. Rockies
        4. Athletics
        5. Brewers
        6. Tigers


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        • NAHSTE
          Probably owns the site
          • Feb 2009
          • 22233

          #5
          This is some Obama socialism bullshit.

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          • Warner2BruceTD
            2011 Poster Of The Year
            • Mar 2009
            • 26142

            #6
            This is really fucking stupid, but it does sorta balance the draft slotting and the new international rules.

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