waynick wrote:If your player changes leagues, could he not be a keeper for the other league?
Great question.
I thought about before the compensation, but there are some problems.
If a star player, Trout for example, automatically gets put on your NL team, then your AL team will not be competitive without compensation. And, it makes helps one team immensely and hurts the other team a lot. Although that could be corrected by the team receiving Trout (for example) loses a pick (corresponding to the top 100 status) - just a thought.
With a compensation pick, it helps one league team and keeps the player in the correct league.
Good players going to the other league gives the teams that did not make the playoffs a chance to acquire a top player in the following year's draft.
Having said that, I am not against the idea and we could do a simple vote once we get the 12.