Competitive Balance Lottery Changes in CBA

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The overall pick # will probably change due to FA activity.

[Point Beer Is Best]

Well it appears we have our answer, the Brewers are going to receive a Competitive Balance Round A pick for next year's draft along with the following teams: Cincinnati Reds, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays

 

In addition to those 6 teams receiving Round A selections it looks like another 8 teams will receive Round B picks, those teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres

 

Not sure of the actual order within each round as the teams are listed alphabetically. The teams who receive Round A selections for the upcoming 2017 draft will also receive Round A selections in 2019 and 2021. They will receive Round B selections in the other years, but receive additional money to spend on the international market in those years.

 

The deductive reasoning used for the above information is a combination of sources including the previously linked MLB.com article which states the following relationship between the international draft and the competitive balance picks:

 

Here's how it will work, starting with the 2017 signing period: Every team gets at least $4.75 million. Any team receiving a Competitive Balance Round A pick in the Draft will get $5.25 million in international bonus pool money. Teams receiving a Competitive Balance Round B pick will have $5.75 million to spend.

Then we found out from Ben Badler's Baseball America article on the International Bonus Pools that the Brewers are among the teams assigned to get $5.25 million in international bonus pool money this year. The 8 teams (including the Cardinals) that are assigned to receive $5.75 million in international bonus pool money should receive Round B picks this year. When the Brewers alternate to a Round B draft pick in 2018 and 2020 they will be allotted the higher international bonus pool.

 

In regards to the International spending pools, this now makes sense considering I saw somewhere the pool amounts by teams, and I was shocked to see that St. Louis was in a grouping of teams receiving a larger pool amount that Milwaukee, but now I'm thinking that is just for 2017; Comp A/B and pool amounts should alternate each year I would have to assume.

[ZBTMP]

The overall pick # will probably change due to FA activity.

 

Or not.. if you wanted me to handicap the odds in any given year that the pick would not move back either due to a FA or unsigned 1st rounder, I would have guess 1 in 100.