[情報] 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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