Earlier now, the Elias Sports Bureau released the state rankings that determine a players free agent rating, cla sifying him like a Type A or Type B free agent. Depending on the cla sification, different levels of compensation are awarded if the player refuses an arbitration offer and signs with another team.
Now, lets you need to be honest the Elias Ratings are horrible. The proven fact that MLB still uses them is laughable. Almost everyone reading this site could create a better rating system for evaluating major league players in about 5
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Every year, however, the horriblene s of the system screws on the decent enough player by categorizing them like a Type A totally free agent, thus requiring any team that wants to sign them to forfeit a high value draft choice. For these players, interest in offering them an agreement nosedives when theyre offered arbitration by their original club, and e sentially limits their choices to going for a twelve months deal revisit where they ended the prior season or try to take such a bargain contract that another team will notice as worth surrendering the pick for.
This year, the glaring illustration of a man who got hosed through the Elias Rankings is Damaso Marte.
Despite his struggles within
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There are quite a few teams that Marte could help as a late inning setup man, but exactly how many are likely to be willing to surrender a top 50 pick to be able to give him a multi-year deal? Id venture to go with none.
Had Marte been cla sified as a Type B free agent, hed probably have several 2 or 3 year offers to consider, perhaps from cities he might enjoy pitching in apart from Ny. However, because Elias decided that hes good enough to be considered a Type A, and MLB teams understand that the machine is stupid, Martes probably looking at a 1 year deal to remain with the Yankees.
Perhaps next year hell pitch poorly enough to become a Type B, that will actually grant him real free agency for a change. Hey, MLB, your free agent product is completely broken, and in the case
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