Idea for Future Years

[Cincinnati Reds - Chris]

I was wondering if there was any interest in this idea:

The idea is similar to what MLB previously had with the compensation for the signing of free agent players and receiving of draft picks for the loss of the free agents.

The twist of my idea is when players who are currently being dropped now/recently so the TPB Manager is not on the hook for 2016/future salaries, impending real MLB free agency raises, injury.......etc that compensation of the team signing said player who is dropped to the team losing the free agent would result in the transference of a draft pick.

The loss of the draft pick would correspond with the quality of player released.

The quality of the player would be determined by a particular stat (WRc+, fWAR or bWAR or another stat) for hitters and for pitchers (fWAR, bWAR or something based off FIP/xFIP and IP)

A determined amount of top players in MLB (pitchers & hitters) by the above mentioned stats would be determined that would qualify for draft pick compensation.
Buckets of a particular amount of players would determine what round pick compensation would be deemed fair as compensation.

[BrewCrewGM]

I'm open to this

[Deleted]

Seems like a lot of work and I think we could focus on other kinks being worked out.

[Deleted]

What he said^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[St. Louis Cardinals (Andrew)]

It does seem on face value like a lot of work but I do like the concept (being a team with continued cap pressure and dropping guys to make cap fit).

Maybe something really simple though could work. A tiered system with supplementary picks added at the end of rounds depending on the WAR. I'd prefer only to have supp picks for the real premium guys or maybe minimum WAR of 3 ? I wouldn't want to have 20 supplementary picks each year.

Maybe also limiting the compensation to those players released in October ?

[Arizona Diamondbacks]

I'm not really sure what the logic is behind compensating for the drop.

The suggestion I'd offer would be to only give picks to guys who are signed to a bigger contract than they were dropped for