The MLB Draft to me has so much talent and if your willing to pay, you can get a huge talent that to me Draft picks can be HUGE assets towards teams, especially teams who are bad. It's funny because lets say the Yankees call the Tigers in the 06 season right, and the Tigers need a big time bat, and the Yankees offer A-Rod for their 5th or 6th pick overall, don't you think that it can make teams like the Dodgers, Mets Yankees and Red Soxs stronger teams in the future.

IMO is a joke. Oakland loses their #1 (maybe #2 to some-Haren) starter and gets a lower draft pick in compensation than Arizona gets for Craig freaking Counsell. I know the system is setup in a certain way, but when the guy who finshes 4th in the MVP voting is a type B FA, there is a flaw. The list of teams getting better picks than Oakland is getting for Zito/Thomas frustrates the heck out of me. Sorry to spit such sour grapes, but I think the compensation needs a MAJOR adjustment.

if baseball can make teams trade draft picks, Do you think baseball should a salary cap? I just feel that if baseball did let teams trade picks then why not a Salary Cap.

I like the idea of trading draft picks. They should get rid of the draft pick compensation rule for free agents altogether. I think the only limit I'd put is they aren't allowed to trade more than two drafts in advance.

I think allowing teams to trade draft picks is ok, if certain "safety measures" are added.  In the opening here, agents manipulating the system is mentioned.  There is a lot of that going on every year, with JD Drew probably being the biggest example of the problem.  To solve this, I'd go with salary slotting for each pick.  If the contract amount for each slot in the draft is already decided, agents can't work their kids through with outrageous demands to maneuver them to a team they choose.  If a team at the end of the first round wants a player going in the top 5, they're going to have to not only pay the player, but they have to give up value to move up to select that player.  

What this might do, is limit the number of "bonus baby" high school kids who threaten to go to college if they don't get X amount of dollars to sign.  With the money already determined, they make the decision whether they really want to go to college or not.  In addition to this, I'd allow players to be eligible for the draft after any college season.  That way, if a kid decided to go to college only to find out he'd rather take a little less money than he originally hoped for, he could enter the draft after his freshman year with minimal time lost.

This should help to eliminate teams selecting lesser players to signability issues, and at least allow them to trade their pick for some value if they don't want to pay the slot amount for their pick.  

With that said, I'm not sure how much actual trading would take place, as many teams wouldn't give up valuable prospects to gamble on a draft pick.  I don't think there would be serious issues if picks were tradeable, but allowing them to be traded would open another avenue for teams to add talent.

a system that ties draft-pick compensation to where the player was picked, like they have in the NBA. that would solve the problems of holdouts and failed signings and also this scott boras-style business of "don't even think about picking this kid unless you're willing to pony up $10M guaranteed." there would have to be some kinks worked out--for instance, differentiating between high school and college picks and whether you could offer a major-league contract--but this is what they need to do.

once they have something like that in place, there would be no reason not to allow trading of picks.

they should have a snaking draft.