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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Are you talking about when a major league club "purchases" the contract of a player from its minor league system to add him to the major league active list? That's not really a player purchase the way I would think of the term. When I think of player purchases, I think of reserve clause era baseball and the sale of players from one team to another, sometimes as a source of quick cash to the club selling the player.
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This would also facilitate a financial system sort of like in European soccer, where trades are rare but buying and selling of players is commonplace. It's my impression that in most of the rest of the world and most other sports trades are uncommon, while purchasing players is the standard method of transfer from one team to another.