The lack of a draft also penalizes teams that haven’t (or can’t afford) to develop a Latin American system. It also leaves the individual educational development up to the teams – incentivizing young players to leave their education behind. (Some like the Yankees and Cubs have dramatically changed their education systems in recent years making their latin american facilities mini-colleges – but it’s not uniform).

As a free market conservative with libertarian tendencies – you’d think I’d love the current system – especially since it has enormously benefited the Cubs. But since it doesn’t offer American players the same opportunities to cash in early I will embrace consistency in saying the entire MLBP agreement could/should be revisited to allow all players the right to let the market gauge their value (but of course it won’t.)