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Originally Posted by crackpott
Quite simply because teams get to keep their own players. Under the current system, half the league won't even get to keep their own players, they're just a farm system for the rich teams once free agency rolls around.
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But it's still going to be the same under your system. This isn't going to impact the Yankees much, considering how much higher their payroll is comparing to others. Their bid on players they want are often way higher than everybody else.
What it would do is mostly dragging down the ability of second tier rich teams to spend to compete with the Yankees.
If your intention is to make players stay longer, something like increasing the experience needed to reach FA or adding something like franchise player rule might be simpler. We don't really know what's the implication to trade anyway. Reducing the trade window might achieve the most actually. If you don't allow in-season trades, you'll have way fewer short term rental kind of trades, and greatly reduce the chance a player would hop around a lot of teams.