Posted by nauds3000 on 1/18/2012 6:58:00 PM (view original):
Because HBD is a perfect model of MLB right? I see guys steal 140 bases all the time, or hit 100 home runs. Cmon man, if Football, Basketball, Hockey etc. Can trade draft picks then what makes you think it shouldn't be allowed in baseball?
I think it SHOULD be allowed in baseball. And as such, if they had wanted to implement HBD in a way that would allow it to be done in a fair and totally above board way (ie, actually allowing picks as tradeable assets so that the receiving owner could actually make the picks), I'd be fine with it regardless of what the MLB rules are.
But they didn't, and what we're left with is people doing an end-run around what the system is setup to do, with an end result that comes nowhere close to what happens when picks are traded in other sports in real-life, and that is ripe for potential abuse.
1/18/2012 8:14 PM (edited)