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Originally Posted by jonumberone
Teams can only receive draft pick compensation if they offer a player salary arbitration and he signs somewhere else.
Beltran's contract is written so the team cannot offer him arbitration at the end of the year, thus no compensation for the Mets or whoever he is traded to!
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I'm not positive, but I believe you are wrong. The Rays made no offers to any of their free agents last year- Crawford, Pena, wheeler, Choate, qualis, Balfour, and Cormier. That's how they ended up with the 10 draft picks.