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Posted 09 February 2013 - 10:06 AM

Camden Chat: The O's and missed opportunities in the Amateur Draft
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A large part of the article is spent discussing how the O's had 0 compensation round picks during '07-'12, and this year will have the extra pick as a result of the Competitive Draft Lottery.

Compensatory draft picks was discussed a lot 2 years ago. In numerous interviews I did in early 2011, we discussed that during the 2005-10 period the O’s had 17 picks during the first 3 rounds of the Draft. In that same period the Yankees had 18, Tampa 21, Toronto 27, and Boston had 30. My question at the time, was "Is this evidence of a failure of the O’s Front Office to gain (or protect) compensatory draft-picks, or is this evidence of a flawed compensatory system?”

Jayson Stark had a good response in May 2011 stating, “Well, the system certainly has its flaws. But those numbers just reflect organizational philosophy. If you’re always trying to win now or (in this case) at least end a long streak of finishing under .500 and you keep signing free agents to get you there, you wind up with fewer picks. If you’re a team like Toronto or Boston, that believes in stockpiling picks as a way to build your organization, you’re letting free agents walk or at least not trading them all away at the deadline so you can accumulate more picks. But to hit on that many picks, you have to allocate massive funds to player development, so when in doubt you can go over slot. That hasn’t been the Orioles’ way of doing business, with rare exceptions. Your figures, compared with the rest of the AL East, are very interesting. But there’s no one set way to win and no one set way to build an organization, so I wouldn’t make too much of it.”




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