I just simply do not understand the need for a lottery in the MLB draft? One player can’t really turn a franchise around. One player can certainly help speed a rebuild up but this just seems so dumb to me when you have a couple teams that can basically outspend everyone and you don’t have a salary cap. How is tanking to build a bad thing but allowing a team like the Dodgers to have a massive advantage money-wise a good thing? I mean, if you’re going to do a draft lottery just copy the NBAs and be done with it. It’s not even that it’s a lottery it’s just the absurdity of the percentages. Why would the three worst teams all have the same chance if their records are different? The whole concept is stupid. It’s as dumb as the extra innings rule. I’ve never seen a sport do more harm to itself than Baseball over the last 5 or so years.
The easy solution is to not tank. This was never a problem until tanking became obvious. Personally, I’d like to see either the last teams in or out of the playoffs have the best odds to further reward teams that are at least trying. The nationals sucked, management is was either incompetent or trying lose before they traded Soto and gave up on the next few seasons- they don’t deserve to be rewarded with a great pick.
