Hey,
Here's a video and a photo of David Ortiz hitting baseballs into McCovey Cove at a large inflatable model of his new Reebok cleat. Hope you like it.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P...h?
v=PbthfFewxrU
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/155...@N00/763874874/
The draft fails for the second reason you mention, not the first. If you took that argument to its logical conclusion you'd have to say that each year the free agent class should be 'drafted' as well.
There are effectively two sections of free agents, the ones who everyone knows and calls 'free agents, and then the ones that you speak of, the international kids with talent. I don't see anything wrong with that. Its not like the Royals couldn't have ponied up 1.5M to sign Alamazar if they'd wanted to (or known who he is). They certainly could have. But they didn't. I'm not saying 1.5M is insignificant, but teams routinely pay that much for crappy older ball players.
The real problem is the cheapness of the teams with higher picks in the draft. Which could be why the same teams keep chosing high every year.
Chris, thanks for the photo and video. What's up with Ortiz? He still could have pimped his new cleat without playing in the game.
The more talent subject to the draft will lead to teams getting exclusive negotiating rights with better players. And as long as signing bonuses stay relatively steady, which they should given larger supply and demand being constant, it should give the Royals a better opportunity to bring in Alamazar even at $1.5M because the risk of their entire draft has decreased. Inking better and more talent throughout the draft at the same or lower price should allow the Royals to take shot at drafting and signing an Alamazar. Whether or not they or the Pirates do is another topic.
Commenting by HaloScan
