How do Compensation Picks work?

[kmoser]

I know how they work in real life and how if you have a player that is going into free agency and you offer him the qualifying offer and he rejects and signs elsewhere then you get a compensation pick from the team that signed him. I also know that if the team that signed him has a top 10 pick then their pick is protected and you get their next highest pick.
However on MLB 14 when a compensation eligible free agent leaves my team after rejecting my qualifying offer I only get a compensation pick in the supplemental round even though the team didn't have a top 10 pick. Am I doing something wrong or is the game just doing it wrong?


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[NothingTrivial]

Isn't that the way it should be? When a team signs your qualified free agent, they lose their pick if it isn't protected, and then you get one at the end of the first round. I think they may be a little wrong if they are being given at the end of the supplemental round instead of the end of the first round.

[kmoser]

Yep that's how it's supposed to work but I have never gotten a another teams pick, only a pick in the supplemental round.


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[WaitTilNextYear]

Quote: Originally Posted by kmoser

Yep that's how it's supposed to work but I have never gotten a another teams pick, only a pick in the supplemental round. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But you don't get the team's actual 1st round pick. That pick disappears when they sign your FA, and then a new pick appears at the end of the 1st round--that is the pick you actually get.

[kmoser]

Quote: Originally Posted by WaitTilNextYear

But you don't get the team's actual 1st round pick. That pick disappears when they sign your FA, and then a new pick appears at the end of the 1st round--that is the pick you actually get.

Ok I see. But I thought you are supposed to get their pick if it's not protected. Like if a team with the 14th pick gets my FA then I should get the 14th pick in the upcoming draft. I believe that's how it works in real baseball.


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[NothingTrivial]

WTNY is right, even if a teams pick isn't protected you dont get it. The pick just disappears and you get a pick at the end of the rounds. Good example would be Texas signing Shin Soo Choo. They would have had the 21st pick, but because of that signing the pick was forfeited. For compensation Cincy got the 29th pick (#2 in the compensation round) instead of getting the rangers 21st pick.

[kmoser]

Quote: Originally Posted by NothingTrivial

WTNY is right, even if a teams pick isn't protected you dont get it. The pick just disappears and you get a pick at the end of the rounds. Good example would be Texas signing Shin Soo Choo. They would have had the 21st pick, but because of that signing the pick was forfeited. For compensation Cincy got the 29th pick (#2 in the compensation round) instead of getting the rangers 21st pick.

Ok thanks, this always confused me so now I know


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[WaitTilNextYear]

Quote: Originally Posted by NothingTrivial

WTNY is right, even if a teams pick isn't protected you dont get it. The pick just disappears and you get a pick at the end of the rounds. Good example would be Texas signing Shin Soo Choo. They would have had the 21st pick, but because of that signing the pick was forfeited. For compensation Cincy got the 29th pick (#2 in the compensation round) instead of getting the rangers 21st pick.

Quote: Originally Posted by kmoser

Ok thanks, this always confused me so now I know Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep. Glad we could be of help. Baseball has a lot of confusing rules vis-a-vis rosters.

An interesting add on to all this is that the compensatory round also goes in reverse order of winning % (this means the comp. pick has nothing to do with how "good" the player lost was, but with how bad the team is that receives the pick). It has nothing to do with Type A and Type B anymore.

A final interesting nugget is that if a team loses >1 free agent that is tied to a comp. pick, that team will receive all of those comp picks successively.

For example, this past offseason the Yankees lost both Cano and Granderson and would've got back-to-back comp. picks when it was their turn in that round. BUT, they signed McCann, Ellsbury and Beltran, so they ended up forfeiting their 1st Rd pick AND both comp. picks.

And, one further wrinkle, the Cardinals got the 34th overall pick for losing Beltran to NYY (a comp. pick) and not whatever number pick the Yankees would've picked in the 1st round.