http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/22513238/miami-marlins-honor-shooting-victims-wearing-stoneman-douglas-baseball-caps
That’s a tough one. Top 15 prospect. He would have been up and in the rotation by the summer.
The loophole about spending one month in AAA so the team gets an extra year may (emphasis on may) be negotiated away in the next round. Have no idea why the MLBPA did not push for this on the latest CBA (maybe they did but gave up at the end). But this only adds a year to a player we know is headed to the big show (like Kris Bryant). However, if a team holds a player in AAA for a whole year when it knows he's ready, there is nothing anyone can do about that.
They could change the rule so that teams only have the rights to a player for a certain number of years after they're initiially drafted or signed (different numbers depending on whether you're an international signee, a HS draft pick or a college draft pick), no matter whether you're still in the minors or not.
I thonk something like that exists via the option system. That's where the whole 40 man roster crunch comes in and some players are exposed to the Rule 5 Draft.
Right, but that's different from big league service time. Under what I'm proposing, a team would only have the rights to each player through a certain date, so there would be no reason to try to mess with their service time to keep control of them longer. This also will become relevant if more teams start doing what TB is planning this year, using a four man rotation and shuttling guys up and down to cover innings. Under the current rules, this will allow them to control those players longer, but under what I'm proposing, it would make the decision to do that solely a baseball decision.
Video of it here. Very cool. An extension of the “standard” shift and would seem to be a countermeasure against the new school of flyball focused hitting.
