Eliminate The Draft Pick Compensation Rule For Type A & B Free Agents

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Not only that, but the current system is exploited by big market teams to the point where they often have more picks than the small market teams. The rich teams have a lot of free agent churn - they sign guys, then let them go and collect the picks. The small market teams are usually trying to trade their soon-to-be-expensive players and don't get any picks. And the bad teams have fewer Type A and B players anyway, so they have fewer opportunities to lose them and get compensatory picks.

A few years ago the Red Sox had something ridiculous like six or seven picks before the 2nd round, while most of the small market teams had their standard allotment of one.

Exactly. Plus, as mentioned earlier, now the Yanks can sign Cruz while only giving up a 4th round pick, and they only had to give up a second and third round pick for two other type A's since they've signed 3.

The system isn't really helping small market teams imo, those are the teams that more often than not are trading their good players before free agency because they aren't helping them make the playoffs anyway. Teams like the Yanks and Sox generally keep these guys because they need them for pennant race's.