by qksilver69 » Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:47 pm
Rant yes, you're correct in saying that we would be able to "protect" more players by not forcing owners to choose between promoting a prospect or protecting one of their existing 30-man players pre-draft.
And yes, while the draft pool quality would decrease at the low end, it would be mostly unchanged at the upper end. So teams relying on high draft picks to get new high-value cards would not be affected much, it would affect bubble guys on existing 3-man rosters.
To give a "for instance", Andres Torres will be on my bubble list next year. His actual card is useful only as a D-sub and might be worth $1M or so, but he's useless as a hitter. He would easily last until Rnd 7 or so of our current draft, and I'd be betting on a comeback year for him in 2012 by keeping him on roster. That's the type of player this change would allow us to keep on roster vs. returning to the draft pool.
That help?