Why is there a Baseball draft?

Don't want to derail this thread, but I'm just curious to know why you mentioned Eric Lindros, Mizzou?

 

To be fair, the A's just outbid everyone else for a Japanese pitcher this week. And Sano -- a Dominican shortstop considered by many as the top free agent teenage prospect in Latin America last year -- spurned the Pirates to sign with the Twins.

More and more, everyone else is getting their fair share of foreign players, too.

 

As I recall, it was the bidding war for Rick Reichardt, "the next Mickey Mantle," that proved to be the final impetus toward MLB adopting a draft.

 

Drafts in all sports are designed to effectively eliminate the bargaining power of unsigned free agent players entering the structure of the organized sport.

The fact that often it seems not to work that way is simply evidence of the stupidity of the owners.

 

So Mizzou, name all of the Japanese players on the Yankees roster.

 

because he's clueless.

 

in european soccer there also is no salary cap and small market teams over there have even less of a shot than those in MLB. yet you don't hear too much complaining about it being unfair to the small market teams.

 

ok Lindros was very good, but he wasn't as good as Forsberg. then consider the other guys the Nordiques/Avalanche got and you could say he didn't lcome close to living up to the hype.

 

I still wake up screaming in the night when I think of Hideki Irabu.

 

I needed a hockey name and I don't know shit about hockey, sue me...

 

I was just curious, don't really need to get all pissy about it.

 

maybe the Ferraro twins. Lindros definitely not a bust, but definitely didn't live up to the hype.