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Suggestion
Fix draft pick compensation for free agents.
Reason
It's time this gets done right. FA compensation is a crucially important part of real life baseball transactions - it dramatically changes how, for example, a GM acquiring an impending free agent evaluates a deadline trade, or how a rebuilding team deals with its upcoming free agents.
There are a few things that need doing:
-the user needs to be asked whether he wants to offer arbitration to FAs. This could be done at the beginning of the offseason;
-player then needs to decide whether to accept arbitration. This should be easy to implement- the player is really choosing between a one-year contract at arbitration salary versus what he might get as a free agent;
-those free agents who decline arbitration then yield compensation for their old team if they sign elsewhere;
-the game needs to add sandwich rounds to the draft to accommodate compensation picks. Further, when FA compensation is enabled, the game needs to be sure to generate a large enough draft pool to accommodate compensation picks.
Priority
High.
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