Proposal - Adding a Seventh Round to the Drafts

[Guardians GM (Thomas)]

This is pretty straight forward, but there seemed to be a lot of interest in this in the Discord as everyone loves drafts.

I propose we add a seventh round to both the International and Amateur Drafts.

The additional picks would be added to the next draft classes without currently tradable draft assets from the time that the proposal is approved. If approved before the beginning of the 2022 Amateur draft, a seventh round would be added to the 2023 draft. If not, it would be delayed until the 2023 International Draft and 2024 Amateur Draft.

[Astros GM (Will)]

I forget why this was a proposal. Are we trying to solve something?

[Guardians GM (Thomas)]

This one was just something that multiple mentioned yesterday, so it seems like something the league is interested in.

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

Jul 27, 2022 0:05:47 GMT -5 Astros GM (Will) said:

I forget why this was a proposal. Are we trying to solve something?

This idea came up as an if/then.... "If we get rid of COMP Picks, then we should add a 7th round to the Amateur Draft."

[Marlins GM (Travis)]

Comp pick or no comp pick, don't care. Why wouldn't we want another round in the draft? The fact anyone voted no, is mind boggling. Yes means I get another pick. No means I don't, seems like a no brainer.

[Blue Jays GM (Stephen)]

wouldn't mind an extra round. drafting is fun.

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

Jul 27, 2022 17:21:00 GMT -5 Marlins GM (Travis) said:

Comp pick or no comp pick, don't care. Why wouldn't we want another round in the draft? The fact anyone voted no, is mind boggling. Yes means I get another pick. No means I don't, seems like a no brainer.

Let’s have a 25 round draft.

If you vote no, that is mind boggling.

If you vote yes, you get 19 more draft picks.
If you vote no, you don’t.

[Marlins GM (Travis)]

Don't see your point? Ya, if it was up for vote, I'd vote yes. Want me to propose it? Let me draft all year long, I'm game. Love drafting.

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

I think we should only add draft picks if it improves the quality of the league. I feel like there’s always guys I want to draft in the 6th round. I’ve played in leagues where late end picks end up having little value cause there’s so little prospects left after years of massive drafting (420 prospects per year for us after this change… up from 360).

[Nationals GM (Tim)]

I’m still in favor of consolidating into 1 draft. I have been for a while. With our amateur draft shifting to the end of the season due to Covid, we now have 2 different drafts that are less than 3 months apart. It might make more sense to consolidate into 1 draft where both J2 and recent draftees are all available.

In previous discussions regarding a combined draft, 1 of the big arguments against it was that people wanted league activity almost year round. I love the league and i definitely spend more time and effort on that than I do my own family, but I think there’s a way to be more efficient.

This was last year’s offseason schedule

Off-season Schedule

October 4, 2021 - Start of the 2021 Amateur Draft (order is finalized and posted)
October 15, 2021 - Trading Opens
Nov 12, 2021 - Trading Closes
Nov 24, 2021 - Roster Decisions Due/Rosters turned over to next season to reflect 2022 salaries.
Jan 2, 2022 - Start of Free Agency
Feb 15, 2022 - Start of 2022 International Draft (The MLB J2 signing period has been pushed back against, we'll adjust accordingly)
Apr 1, 2022 - Start of 2022 season

This is what a possible combined draft offseason schedule would look like

Proposed Off-season Schedule

October 4, 2023 - Draft order is finalized
October 15, 2023- Trading Opens
Nov 10, 2023 - Trading Closes
Nov 15, 2023 - Roster Decisions Due/Rosters turned over to next season to reflect 2024 salaries.
Dec 1, 2023 - Start of combined draft and trading opens back up
Dec 24, 2023 - Draft pause for the celebration of Jesus
Dec 26, 2023 - Draft resumes
Feb 1 2024 - Start of Free Agency
Apr 1, 2024 - Start of the 2024 BKDB Season

One complaint people have had with Free Agency is that it’s over too quickly, this adjusted offseason schedule would give the league an extra month to prepare for Free Agency while still having league activity via the new combined draft that should run right into the start of free agency given the number of rounds there will be (we can discuss that specific amount later). Previous 6 round drafts have run approximately 6-7 weeks long so the new combined draft would give us a ton of league activity over the winter.

A combined draft also gives teams more tradable assets. I think it could be argued either way that this benefits the good teams or this benefits the bad teams. And yes, we all know international picks could still be traded after the round ended, but this scenario would allow them to actually be traded.

I know this is a mile long post. Sorry.

[Nationals GM (Tim)]

For Travis :

Possible proposal. Combined Amateur and International draft with an adjustment to the off-season schedule.

[Marlins GM (Travis)]

I like 2 drafts because it helps break up the long offseason.

[Marlins GM (Travis)]

Jul 27, 2022 23:48:34 GMT -5 Rockies GM (Alex) said:

I think we should only add draft picks if it improves the quality of the league. I feel like there’s always guys I want to draft in the 6th round. I’ve played in leagues where late end picks end up having little value cause there’s so little prospects left after years of massive drafting (420 prospects per year for us after this change… up from 360).

As you should. You're the commish. I'm a sheep. Sheep always want more grass. (I think they eat grass?)

[Rockies GM (Alex)]

I like the one draft idea, because it reduces the incentive to absolutely suck for two years so you get basically four top picks. You should only get one top pick.

Most leagues do one "First Year Player Draft" where you can draft rookies and international guys... we could still include unowned milb players. As "compensation" to the teams rebuilding, we could allow all twelve rounds to be traded?

[Marlins GM (Travis)]

Wait, if we consolidate, does that mean all 12 picks are tradeable? Because then I'm hella down for that

[Orioles GM (Michael)]

The more assets that become tradable, the more lopsided the league's going to become.

I honestly don't care if that happens, but it's going to happen, the same way it's started to happen since we freed up cap coverage.

So, just think that should at least be taken under consideration if we're going to add even more tradable assets.

Naturally, present good teams that are good at trading will obviously be just fine with this. But I digress.

[Cardinals GM (Nik)]

I just don’t see it, guys