Joel Sherman had a report yesterday that said Major League Baseball would be getting rid of Type B picks as part of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Sherman tweeted today that he made a mistake, and that there will be Type B free agents this off-season. He added that some of the Type A free agents like Kelly Johnson, Matt Capps, and Octavio Dotel, who would be hurt by their Type A status, will drop down to Type B free agents this off-season.
That doesn’t really say whether the same system will be in place next year, but this is good news for the Pirates. They’re in line to potentially get two compensation picks this off-season, and that is still in place. It’s been reported that Ryan Doumit is expected to sign before the end of the month, and the Pirates will almost certainly offer arbitration to Derrek Lee, who they are trying to re-sign. They would get picks between the first and second rounds of the 2012 draft for each player.
Tim started Pirates Prospects in 2009 from his home in Virginia, which was 40 minutes from where Pedro Alvarez made his pro debut in Lynchburg. That year, the Lynchburg Hillcats won the Carolina League championship, and Pirates Prospects was born from Tim's reporting along the way. The site has grown over the years to include many more writers, and Tim has gone on to become a credentialed MLB reporter, producing Pirates Prospects each year, and will publish his 11th Prospect Guide this offseason. He has also served as the Pittsburgh Pirates correspondent for Baseball America since 2019. Behind the scenes, Tim is an avid music lover, and most of the money he gets paid to run this site goes to vinyl records.
