MLB considering adding draft pick trading

Thought a thread might start on this subject but it really could just be a list of pros and cons. One bad GM could ruin a team for years and years. Maybe there would be more trading. The trade speculation would be over the top.

I actually thought that as I typed it.

Actually, a sound reason for allowing it.

MLB has done so much to restrict their potential growth of the game. This is just an unnecessary thing to have. They are the only one out of the 4 major sports where you really can’t trade draft picks except for like the competitive balance stuff. It’s pretty annoying and ridiculous.

Baseball takes itself too serious. TWIB and goofy MLB games with player licenses like the Griffey game back in the day.

Not sure how I feel about it. I’m not opposed in principle, and I’m sure they’ll have restrictions on what picks can be traded. But if it’s anything like NFL or NBA, you could see MLB team trade say, several future first round picks for a player where a GM’s is just like, “I won’t be around in a few years to make these picks anyway.” Obviously that happens in other sports, but baseball is a different beast when it comes to development time and farm systems.

If Dombrowski had access to this method in 2016-2018, would we be just out of draft picks in the early 2020’s at this point because they’d all be traded?

we could also see teams trading pick 1-1 to a team (like the brewers this year) with 4 day 1 picks

Love this mainly for two reasons: 1) more strategy paths for teams, 2) draft day becomes much more exciting if teams are moving all over day of

Lot of changes baseball. Dont like most of them.

Like the clock change.

Add being able to trade draft picks among the small list of changes I do like. Would really make draft day extremely exciting.

I would be in favor of letting teams trade money that could be used in the draft pool, but I wouldn't want a situation where a team could wind up with substantially fewer (or more) draft picks than another team.

My biggest theoretical fear is along these lines. Without knowing the rules, what if a team ends up acquiring 5~ extra first round picks in a year when there is a guy like Skenes and tells him we'll give you all of our 1st round bonus pool to not agree with the team with the first pick. There definitely needs to be some restrictions. 

I agree with a lot of the concerns voiced above. There are lots of potential compromises: mandatory slot, only rounds 2-5, etc.
My suggested compromise is to allow trades of just-signed draftees up until the trade deadline. You're trading the player, not the pick. Then they go on their usual no-trade for 12 months rule.

I think it's long past due and can add a little excitement and hype around the draft which is always a good thing for the sport, even if you restrict it to only this year's picks or a couple years out. Not sure it solves the under slot jockeying near the top but I think that's confusing for the average fan instead of the focus being on who is the best player in the draft. (Hard slotting solves that but adds some complications of it's own.) "Do the Guardians think Bazzanna is the best player and worth picking #1, or do they trade down a couple picks and try to add extra picks or another prospect?" is a better storyline than "Did the Guardians cut a deal with a guy? We really won't have an answer tonight and maybe not for a couple weeks!"

But really the change I want to see is the elimination of Competitive Balance picks, or at least an adjustment where there is a Win/Loss cutoff. Sick of seeing the Orioles, Diamondbacks, Guardians get free million $ picks (and extra IFA bonus pool $$$) partly because a team like Baltimore was mismanaged for 30 years under Angelos.