Boras calls new draft rules a “mockery”

When the dust settles from the 2012 draft, I suspect there’s going to be many observers unhappy with the carnage that the new collective bargaining hath wrought. The draftees themselves, of course, will certainly not be happy with the amount of money they find themselves collecting relative to previous years’ selections (many of whom happily signed up for limiting their predecessors‘ abilities to do the same). I suspect that more than a few scouting directors and general managers will be pretty peeved about the limitations the new rules put on their ability to select the players they want as well, though they’d never admit it.

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