Yankees reached free-agent quota

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Yankees reached free-agent quota
Unless limit raised, Bombers cannot sign any more Type As or Bs

The most commonly held misconception of this offseason is that the Yankees
could have signed pitcher Ben Sheets or could still sign left-fielder Manny
Ramirez if only there were a few million dollars remaining in the
Steinbrenner bank.

Both assumptions are incorrect. According to the Basic Agreement, and
confirmed by a top Major League Baseball official, once the Yankees signed CC
Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Mark Teixeira, they had signed their quota of Type
A or Type B free agents under the collectively bargained rules established by
management and the Players Association.

All three were Type A free agents who played for other teams last season
aside from the Yankees. The Yankees could re-sign their own Type A or Type B
free agents without it affecting the quota.

Under the rules, "if there are from 39 to 62 [Type A and B] players [during a
given offseason], no team can sign more than three."

"Frankly, it's an unusual year to have that many ranked players," Rob
Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of labor relations,
told MLB.com this week.

Manfred negotiates these kinds of terms with the Major League Baseball
Players Union. And the current Basic Agreement, signed after the 2007 season,
doesn't expire until Dec. 31, 2011.

But it gets more complicated.

According to an unofficial list compiled by the Sports City Sports News
Service, this year there were 63 Type A and Type B free agents -- 29 Type As
and 34 of the Type B variety. A Type A player is one who's ranked among the
top 20 percent of his group -- pitcher or position player. A Type B player is
among the top 40 percent. The Elias Sports Bureau does the annual independent
rankings.

"If there are more than 62 such players, the club quota shall be increased
accordingly," the Basic Agreement also says.

"If there were more than 62 this year, we should have agreed on an increased
quota," Manfred said. "We did not. I think if [the Yankees] were
contemplating signing another Type A player, they would've read the agreement
and asked us what we wanted to do. They would've said they wanted to sign a
fourth player and we would've had to do something with the union."

The Yankees didn't ask, Manfred said.

They did sign another Type A player this week, pitcher Andy Pettitte. But
Pettitte played for the Yankees in 2008. The same goes for Damaso Marte, a
Type A reliever the Yanks re-signed early in the offseason.

In any event, after signing five free agents at a guaranteed total cost of
$447.5 million spread out over the next eight years, it appears the Yankees
are done spending this offseason.

Hot Stove

Rules about compensatory Draft picks led to some confusion, too.

Only Type A or Type B free agents who have turned down arbitration yield
compensation picks. That means the Brewers, who offered Sabathia arbitration,
wound up being compensated by the Yankees with their second-round pick in
next June's First-Year Player Draft. The Padres, on the other hand, didn't
receive a pick for all-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman when he signed with
the Brewers, because he wasn't offered arbitration.

The main reason a club might decline to offer arbitration is that it's more
concerned with the amount of money an arbitrator might award to the player
than preserving the possibility of a compensatory draft pick.

This year, only 24 of the 63 Type A or B free agents in that group were
offered arbitration. Two of the 24, Darren Oliver of the Angels and David
Weathers of the Reds, accepted arbitration and returned to those clubs. Thus,
only 22 of 216 free agents this year earn Draft-pick compensation if they are
signed by another club, about 10 percent.

With only 10 Type A and B free agents still unsigned, the question arose
regarding what might happen if one of them signed with a Major League club
after the Draft?

The list of unsigned Type A players includes Ramirez, Oliver Perez, Jason
Varitek, Orlando Cabrera, Juan Cruz, Orlando Hudson and Sheets. The Type B
list is Paul Byrd, Dennys Reyes and Brian Shouse.

"It's always been our position that if [a player] goes past the Draft, the
compensation goes away," Manfred said, adding that it has never happened.




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推 Lingoqueen:快推 免得被發現我們看不懂英文
→ chancewen:看不懂FA簽約規則XD
推 frankyang:跟之前板友寫信去問的不一樣，所以看來失去Moose的名額
→ frankyang:不能拿來簽別隊的Type A/B
推 hzc0725:快推 我也看不懂什麼Type A,B
→ frankyang:所以現在不能簽ManNY了但是還是可以簽蛋
推 raygod:沒關係 一堆專家也搞不懂XD
→ cardfat:洋基現在已經簽了五個TypeA了不能再簽了的樣子
→ raygod:蛋可以啦 他沒被提仲裁
推 meier0112:這似乎跟有沒有仲裁沒關係吧
→ cardfat:蛋應該不行 我不知道I-rod算不算在配額裡
推 Georgeliu:文章是說洋基簽了3個type A/B球員，達到了聯盟規定的上
→ Georgeliu:限，所以不能再簽任何Type A/B球員
→ Georgeliu:派帥跟馬鐵兩個由於上季是洋基球員，所以不受規則限制
→ Georgeliu:但是這個規定是指在季後有39~62個Type A/B FA的前提下
→ Georgeliu:而今年有63個Type A/B球員，超過該規定的上限
→ Georgeliu:因此洋基可以向聯盟要求"增加"球團可以簽的Type A/B球員
→ Georgeliu:數量，只是目前為止洋基都沒有相關的請求
→ Georgeliu:洋基不是沒機會簽Sheets或Manny，而是洋基球團似乎沒有
→ Georgeliu:簽的意願
→ Georgeliu:另外後半段則是在討論選秀權的問題
→ Georgeliu:主要是有人質疑，如果球隊是在選秀後才簽Type A/B FA
→ Georgeliu:那原本獲得的選秀權會怎樣?
→ Georgeliu:而聯盟的回應則是"只要簽了Type A/B球員，就沒有選秀權"
推 meier0112:文章不是說,選秀後再簽,就不用補償選秀順位嗎??