2005 draft order, free agent compensation

[colbyjack]

With Omar Vizquel signing with the Giants, I thought it would be a good time to start a running tab of the FA signings and how it effects next year's draft order. I'll only list the signings for now.

 

And just so you know for easy reference, the draft order is and has been listed as part of Brewerfan.net's draft coverage:

 

www.brewerfan.net/ViewDra...?draftId=3

 

2005 draft order:

01        Arizona Diamondbacks       

02        Kansas City Royals       

03        Seattle Mariners       

04        Washington Nationals       

05        Milwaukee Brewers       

06        Toronto Blue Jays       

07        Colorado Rockies       

08        Tampa Bay Devil Rays       

09        New York Mets       

10        Detroit Tigers       

11        Pittsburgh Pirates       

12        Cincinnati Reds       

13        Baltimore Orioles       

14        Cleveland Indians       

15        Chicago White Sox       

16        Florida Marlins       

17        Philadelphia Phillies       

18        San Diego Padres       

19        Texas Rangers       

20        Chicago Cubs       

21        Oakland Athletics       

22        San Francisco Giants       

23        Anaheim Angels       

24        Houston Astros       

25        Minnesota Twins       

26        Los Angeles Dodgers       

27        Atlanta Braves       

28        Boston Red Sox       

29        New York Yankees       

30        St. Louis Cardinals

 

I'm going to scrap the info I had previously. Jim Callis always keeps a nice running tab of compensation picks as part of his AskBA feature, so I'm simply going to copy & paste what he has (it's free content).

 

Changes to the draft order so far:

 

First Round

17. Yankees (from Phillies for Type B Jon Lieber)

22. Marlins (from Giants for Type A Armando Benitez)

23. Red Sox (from Angels for Type A Orlando Cabrera)

26. Red Sox (from Dodgers for Type A Derek Lowe)

28. Cardinals (from Red Sox for Type A Edgar Renteria)

29. Marlins (from Yankees for Type A Carl Pavano)

 

Supplemental First Round

31. Diamondbacks (for Type A Richie Sexson)

32. Rockies (for Type A Vinny Castilla)

33. Indians (for Type A Omar Vizquel)

34. Marlins (for Benitez)

35. Padres (for Type A David Wells)

36. Athletics (for Type A Damian Miller)

37. Angels (for Type A Troy Percival)

38. Astros (for Type A Carlos Beltran)

39. Twins (for Type A Corey Koskie)

40. Dodgers (for Type A Adrian Beltre)

41. Braves (for Type A Jaret Wright)

42. Red Sox (for Type A Pedro Martinez)

43. Cardinals (for Renteria)

44. Marlins (for Pavano)

45. Red Sox (for Cabrera)

46. Cardinals (for Type A Mike Matheny)

47. Red Sox (for Lowe)

48. Orioles (for failure to sign Wade Townsend)

49. Angels (for failure to sign Jered Weaver*)

50. Diamondbacks (for failure to sign Stephen Drew*)

(*First-round pick still eligible to sign with club.)

 

Second Round

53. Dodgers (from Mariners for Beltre)

54. Rockies (from Nationals for Castilla)

55. Athletics (from Brewers for Miller)

56. Twins (from Blue Jays for Koskie)

59. Red Sox (from Mets for Martinez)

60. Angels (from Tigers for Percival)

65. Yankees (from White Sox for Type B Orlando Hernandez)

72. Cardinals (from Giants for Matheny)

78. Padres (from Red Sox for Wells)

79. Braves (from Yankees for Wright)

 

Supplemental Second Round

81. Marlins (for Type C Mike Redmond, signed with Twins)

82. Twins (for Type C Henry Blanco, signed with Cubs)

 

Third Round

85. Diamondbacks (from Mariners for Sexson)

86. Twins (from Nationals for Type B Cristian Guzman)

91. Astros (from Mets for Beltran)

104. Indians (from Giants for Vizquel)

110. Cubs (from Red Sox for Type B Matt Clement)

 

Remaining free agents requiring compensation if they switch teams:

 

Type A:

None (removed Roger Clemens 1/20/05, the last remaining Type A FA, as he appears to either be staying in Houston or retiring given the news of his arbitration desires)

 

Type B:

Brent Mayne (LA)

 

EDIT: Changed order per AskBA 12/24/04.

 

There are going to be a lot of sandwich picks, even if Weaver, Drew, Niemann and Humber end up signing. What used to be our 2nd round pick would fall until the 55th-60th or so overall selection. The Brewers are going to have to wait a long time after their first-round pick before they make their next selection.

 

The Marlins, Cardinals and D-Backs so far look like the teams that have helped themselves out the most with extra draft picks. The D-Backs in particular are going to have a tough time signing the the first pick in the sandwich round, and an additional, early 2nd round pick. Since Stephen Drew remains unsigned, it could make things interesting come June. Given all of the free agents they've signed, I'm curious how there draft budget will be. They may go the way of the '02 Pirates or even last year's Padres and try to find a guy that will sign for relatively cheap with the #1 overall pick.

 

***The Boston Red Sox also look to be in a great position in next year's draft. While they lost their first-rounder, 2nd rounder and 3rd rounder, but they gained two other first round picks, 3 sandwich picks and an additional 3rd rounder.

 

In my mind, this is proof why the free agent draft compensation system needs to be changed. Something similar to the NFL process would be nice, where free agents signed and lost would be balanced out.

[brewerjamie15]

for 2005 wtih teams picking by winning percentage only and not alternating leagues, how is it that a tie is broken like in the case of Mil and Tor who each had a .416 ? Does it then go by games behind their division leader? what if that is also tied??

[colbyjack]

Tie-breakers in that instance are determined by who had the worse record the year before. Since the Brewers were crappier than the Blue Jays in 2003, they get the earlier pick in 2005.

[BrewCrewin2005]

I dont like baseball's compensation draft pick system either with the world champion red sox getting the most first round draft picks even though they signed some quality players such as Clement and Edgar. I think that the NFL has the best compensation system. They have a committe meet and decide based on which players the team lost and which ones that they signed. That is the most fair way to do it in my opinion.