12-17-2010, 03:05 PM
I was thinking about this today when I was looking at the bids on some of the FA's. I think the way we do compensation is good but looking at the work behind it, it seems like it is time consuming for the people that put those numbers together to figure it out.
I had a thought to simplify the process of compensation. My thought was to have the market dictate the level of compensation. Something along the lines of 20M + a season or 70M overall value in a contract would dictate a Part A comp and maybe 10M + a season or 35M overall value in a contract would be a Part B comp.
You can ignore running the numbers then and just go off of the signing of the contract and the market will than detirimine if that player is truely a Part A or Part B compensation. You would not have to worry about players being offered fall back arb offers because that fallback offer in retrospect would be a non-factor as the FA contract offer would dwarf the fall back offer.
This would also allow players to bid up to certain level on players and then back out once it gets to the level of a 1st round or 2nd round pick that they would not want to part with.
Again, I am not pointing fault at our current system, I am just trying to add some thought and think outside the box.
Sean
I had a thought to simplify the process of compensation. My thought was to have the market dictate the level of compensation. Something along the lines of 20M + a season or 70M overall value in a contract would dictate a Part A comp and maybe 10M + a season or 35M overall value in a contract would be a Part B comp.
You can ignore running the numbers then and just go off of the signing of the contract and the market will than detirimine if that player is truely a Part A or Part B compensation. You would not have to worry about players being offered fall back arb offers because that fallback offer in retrospect would be a non-factor as the FA contract offer would dwarf the fall back offer.
This would also allow players to bid up to certain level on players and then back out once it gets to the level of a 1st round or 2nd round pick that they would not want to part with.
Again, I am not pointing fault at our current system, I am just trying to add some thought and think outside the box.
Sean
Cubs GM 2010-2021
2017 & 2019 World Champions
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2017 & 2019 World Champions
LAA GM 2022-2035
2028, 2029, 2032 and 2034 World Champions