Of course, they changed the rules last year about being able to get another pick if you don't sign your draft choice, so we get the extra one for Crowe. I haven't seen anything that explains whether that pick comes into play one way or another (i.e. is that a losable pick, and probably more significantly, does that count as one of the top 15 or do they add to it?) IOW, before last year, if you were the 15th worst team, you couldn't lose your 15th pick overall by signing a Type-A FA. With the Nats getting a 9B for not signing Crowe, is the 15th pick now exposed, or are they still protected. I was assuming they were all protected. But it remains to be seen how they handle this. I expect that the Farm Authority site will cover this as the FA signing period goes forward.
