Compensation thought

[GoIrish]

The only thing with that DJ is some years there might be no players worthy of compensation.If we did that route, it would say there will be compensation regardless if there is a player worthy or not. You also have the other issue that some people would not want to bid on a player if they knew compensation was involved and compensation in that system is in established in the rear. With a stated value, the inviduals know, once the bidding gets over a set amount, that now compensation is a factor.

When I originally had this thought this morning was to set a value of per season as the factor. Then I thought, someone will circumvent that by instead of offering a 5 year 20M deal, they will offer a 10 year 10M deal and still pay the same money but not have to pay Part A compensation. Then I thought, ok, do a "or" you could have it be either "x" amount of value per season or "Y" amount of overall contract.

Lets take my numbers and look at this class of FA. I am also not stating that these are the numbers we should use, they can be changed, just showing how it applies.

Part A compensation (20M per season or 70M in total contract)
Clay Bucholtz

Part B Compensation (10M per season or 35M in total contract)
Dai Sima
Adam Dunn

then you have 2 players on the cusp of part B in Liriano and Reyes both at contracts of 30M in total.

If you wanted you could even add a part C compensation (3rd round pick) for players from 7M per season or 20+ in total contract.