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Boston continues to be adept at churning draft picks.

Wagner, who appeared in fifteen games and logged a whopping 13.2 innings for 'em, gets Boston two draft picks when he signs elsewhere. Wow, what a great system.

Our FO stinks at gaming this system though it's possible that Wiggy, Miggy and Milly could net picks after this season.

Hopefully, we are overcome the lack of early picks with some overslot signings later in the draft - similar to last year.

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It sure is....at least when you're good at identifying and maximizing talent at both the ML and amateur levels.

Putting aside organization ineptitude (e.g. the Orioles) the current system, over time, ends up awarding successful teams and hurts poorer teams (poorer in terms of cash and/or w/l %). I think it should be adjusted in some manner.... Maybe getting rid of the compensation pick... I don't know.

But, I give credit for Boston taking full advantage of the system.

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To soften the sting of Tampa and Toronto having all those picks in the first two rounds, remember that two picks for each team in 2010 are as compensation for not signing their 2009 1st and 2nd round picks.

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Well, if losing our 2nd round pick for signing Mike Gonzalez drives you nuts, think about this. If we had signed Lackey, or Bay or Holliday rather than MG, guess what pick it would have cost us? Yeah, the same second round pick.

Or we could have lost a 2nd and 3rd for signing Walker and Bradford...

At least the top 15 picks are protected. Think if we lost Wieters and Taillon/Macahdo/etc. for those guys.

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Well, if losing our 2nd round pick for signing Mike Gonzalez drives you nuts, think about this. If we had signed Lackey, or Bay or Holliday rather than MG, guess what pick it would have cost us? Yeah, the same second round pick.

Eh, that doesn't make me feel any worse. At least by signing a guy for only two years, you have a good shot at getting a pick back two years later.

Of course his injury doesn't help with that.

But I didn't want those other guys anyway.

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