# 1, I don't see any reason why the rest of us should cooperate with any effort to monopolize the baseball pipeline. You can expect any such effort ultimately to lead to an enhancement of the value of MLB franchises at the expense of players. And the current spectrum of choices available to young players and their families will be greatly diminished.
# 2, The draft is a function of the MLB franchises, acting as a cartel, to restrict the negotiating power of players who are not yet governed by the CBA. Anything that relates to the draft can never be fully understood until this is first fully appreciated.
That's why, in the same year, Stephen Strasburg had to sign for roughly half what Aroldis Chapman got.
I suspect a lot of what undergirds all this is the ultimate desire to force foreign players into a common pipeline and therefore, into the draft as well. In other words, MLB looks at the Strasburg/Chapman situation and thinks, "Why did we have to pay so much for Chapman? We need to fix that, like we did with American-born kids."