Type-B Free Agent Compensation To Be Eliminated In CBA

I apologize for the shameless, grab-you-by-the-lapels SEO headline, but according to Joel Sherman, this change would be, in effect, retroactive. That is, teams that have already offered arbitration to Type-B free agents (e.g. Aramis Ramirez)—knowing they’d receive a supplemental draft pick if the player declined—would now get nothing. Which is a little like having a presidential election and then declaring afterwards that the only vote that counts is Kevin Costner’s*.

↵* Don’t worry—not even the hackiest Hollywood producers would dare run with such an idiotic premise.